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Create your own book tournament bracket, a perfect passive program for any age pitting book against book in the ultimate showdown.

One of our easiest and most useful initiatives is our Celebrate A Grade initiative. We’ve run it for the past three school years and it has lots of applications. Every month celebrates a specific grade. We begin in October with kindergarten. When kids in each grade come up to the desk and tell us their teacher... Read more »

In the books I loved to read as a kid, libraries are crazy old buildings full of secrets. The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn sends Anthony Monday all over the library, following obscure clues to u…

What are Maker Kits? Maker Kits are low-cost, versatile materials for open-ended creating put together in one container around a themed craft. Each kit is filled with supplies that are easy to use …

A "Choose Kind" program at your library is an easy passive program that works literally year around!

Posts about Passive Programs written by dawnabron

We are passionate supporters of public libraries here at Pages Unbound. But there are still awesome services and programs I would love to see libraries provide! Here are ten cool ideas that would g…

Passive programming in a school library allows students a sense of ownership, a place to explore, experiment, and fail without consequence.

A fun passive activity for after-school kids can be learning beginner facts about Braille and create a bookmark with their name in Braille.