Life sized clue game

Life-Sized Clue was not my idea initially - I was given control of the project for the YAB group. I knew about it for almost two months, and let it sit idle for a month and a half. We all had other projects on our plates and no time to worry about an event that seemed to have already written itself. Then, two weeks before we were scheduled to run the event, I got bored. It's never safe when I get bored. One brainstorming session later, I had a paper full of ideas to bring to the next YAB…

For Teen Read Week (TRW) I planned and hosted a Life Size Clue event for the teens at one of my library branches. I was lucky enough to receive one of the ten TRW grants through YALSA and the Dollar General Literacy Foundation to fund this event. The TRW theme this year was "Seek the Unknown." That paired with several of my regular teens' interest in crime and mystery TV shows, prompted me to plan the Life Size Clue event. I found inspiration online from GreenBean TeenQueen, Abby the…

March 20, 2010

Life-sized board games are all the rage right now. Not long ago I got to try my hand at it when we did a Live Clue program for teens. Unfortunately, I can't take credit for developing this program. That credit belongs to my predecessor, who is now working in another department at the library. But she did such a good job with this program that we had lots of requests to do it again this year. Fortunately, my predecessor was willing to help out with the program and show me how it's supposed to…

After we had such fun with Life Size Clue last fall, I knew I wanted to do another life size game in the summer. I was inspired by this picture and also this one on Pinterest to host Life Size Sorry for my teens. I went low cost and low tech with the layout. The Sorry game board was much easier to set up than the Clue board was. I always turn the game board into a table in Microsoft Word. It makes it easier for me to gather my supplies and lay the board out. The game board itself was pieces…

On Saturday, my coworker S and I did a program for middle schoolers. We played life-sized Clue! It was an idea I got from the ILA conference last fall when they had a showcase for the state summer reading theme: Get in the Game - Read! When I found out that my library's programming theme for the spring was "Get Out and Play!", I immediately wanted to do this game at my library. We had a pretty good turnout (despite the fact that the weather was gorgeous for the first time since October or…

When I scheduled Life Size Clue, I had never played the game and was not aware that most of the plans out there for this game were much more detailed and time consuming than I would really want wit…

Teens, get your game face on. Beginning in October, Scenic Regional Library in Union will offer twice-monthly programming just for you (sixth-graders and older).

A fun and fairly easy program to put together, Life-Size Clue was a hit with our middle school audience and something we'll repeat in the future!

This live version of a classic board game offers a fun way for youth and adults to connect and build relationships.