Here is a great program idea from my fellow librarian friend Beth; (Thanks Beth!) paper craft toys! Paper craft is the art of recreating famous characters and pop culture references into 3D paper sculptures. Designs range from the delightfully challenging to the 'oh my geez' difficult. Best of all you can pretty much find a paper craft to accompany almost any video game, film or anime event. Just google "paper craft and *character name*" and you will find your favorite character in nano-seconds (I'm sure the net is faster than that these days) Supplies are pretty basic: you will a color printer, card stock paper (you can use regular white paper but card stock is more sturdy), glue, and scissors. Directions are included on the sheet. Check out these sites to get started:
Cubeecraft: (picture above) Amazing website with great paper crafts for beginners.
Toy-A-Day: More lovable characters in paper form. Great blog!
Nintendo paper craft: Online blog featuring all the popular Nintendo characters. Very cool!
Cubeecrafts are terrific to just leave around your teen area. Just print out a bunch of different sheets and pop them in a crate. The sheets can also tie together many different programs. For example, Nintendo characters for game night, or movie characters for movie nights. What could be easier? :-)
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