Little Maker Toolkit Available!

Cover to the Little Maker Toolkit

Hello everyone, I am so happy to share that our Little Makers Toolkit is now available on our newly designed Little Makers Website. It has been a wild and wonderful four years since we started our Little Makers program and we are very excited to share the good and the not-so-good, but nothing is predictable or moves in a straight line. That would be boring, wouldn’t it? We are especially happy to share what we feel were viable solutions to providing both in the library and in-the-home programming for caregivers and children as young as 2 years old.

We did this all with support from fellow staff members of the Keene Public Library and numerous volunteers, thoughtful feedback from parents and caregivers, Peer Associates, and our professional board of advisors. Thanks to Lisa Regalla and her team at Regallium Consulting for pulling it all together.

We hope that you will be inspired and motivated to integrate STEM play into all your library programs. The Little Makers Toolkit provides planning and evaluation tools, an annotated picture book bibliography, and lots of ideas for age-appropriate STEM Play activities. You can download the toolkit in its entirety or pick and choose chapters that interest you. Through our website, you can access our Little Makers Niche Academy which provides examples and guidance on how librarians can provide virtual STEM programming for families and very young children. With these resources, we hope to inspire and motivate you to develop programming unique to your community's needs.

Just make sure you have fun in the process.

Amy