I love hosting Literati Book Fairs in our school library. We make our book fairs big, special events for our entire school community, that include our students, teachers, families and community. It's a wonderful event for everyone and we always want to make it super fun and memorable.
As we get ready to host book fairs, we dream up and plan all kinds of ways to decorate the library and school. In fact, we just hosted our fall Literati Book Fair with the theme of Galactic Adventures and had so many great decorating ideas.
And Literati just announced the spring theme of Story Arcade! We can't even wait for that one. I can already see our library decorated as a giant video game! The kids will love it and it will definitely bring them to the book fair.
In this post, Id love to share 5 decorating ideas for each book fair. These will get the ball rolling as you put your own twist on these ideas, and dream up your own too.
5 Decorating Ideas For Your Galactic Adventures Literati Book Fair
1. Use holiday lights to create twinkling stars around your book fair space.
2. Have students make their own planets using styrofoam balls, old CD's, markers, etc. For a bonus STEM exercise, have them write down the name of their planet, who lives there, what the atmosphere is made of, etc.
3. Make a constellation bulletin board. Cover with dark blue or black and use silver paint to map out stars and create the phrase, Blast Off To Our Book Fair.
4. Use paper plates and recycled paper to make comics and asteroids. Cut the paper into strips to make the tail. Last year, a librarian shared this idea with the Literati team. She even used extra book fair catalogs to create lion manes.
5. Get the school community involved by having a classroom door decorating challenge. Have the teachers and students decorate their doors with the Galactic Adventures theme.
You will also find lots of ideas on the Galactic Adventures Pinterest Board from Literati.
5 Decorating Ideas For Your Galactic Adventures Literati Book Fair
1. Create a giant video game controller to go around the entrance of the door into your book fair.
2. Gather up old video games console and games. Use them throughout the book fair display within your library. You can find these at Goodwill stores and ask around to see if you can borrow from your school community.
3. Have students dream up a new video game around their favorite stories to go along with the Story Arcade theme. They can use Scratch at scratch.mit.edu to create their story based game. Create a Story Arcade of their games that can be shared so they can play each others.
4. Play video game music during the book fair to make them feel like they are in a video game. You can find lists of Spotify and other places online. Just search up “8-bit” versions or covers of songs. You will also find them available on YouTube.
5. Use these ideas from The Adventures of Ms. Smith's blog to create a glow in the dark look and give it a video game feeling. A disco ball can also be used to create light effects around the library during the book fair.
There are lots of ideas for the Story Aracde Pinterest Board from Literati too.
As you can see, there are so many ways to make your Literati Book Fairs extra special, exciting and fun. I can't wait to see what you do at your Literati Book Fair too.
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I know you will love hosting a Literati Book Fair just as much as I do, friends. With the amazing selection of books, easy set-up, incredible customer support, and so much more, you will love bringing Literati Book Fairs to your library and school community too.
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