Pokemon Go @ Your Library

Welcome back readers! This week I’ll talk a little more about my Pokemon program. I will post something later about my sewing endeavors.

On Monday, I held a Pokemon Go @ Your Library School Age program at my library. I prepared two crafts: a Design Your Own Pokeball and Pikachu origami for the children to participate in. I also checked out three Pokemon DVDs: The Greatest of Eevee vol. 9, The Greatest of Charmander vol. 10, and Pokemon: the First Movie. I allowed the children to vote for their movie and surprisingly, they choose Eevee. I made over 300 Pokemon buttons for the children to take with them. I had about 35 children attend, ranging for ages 8 to 13 years old. The best part of the whole program for me was when the Greatest of Eevee began with the Pokemon theme song, and all of the children began singing along. It was so cute I couldn’t contain my laughter and I too sang along. Being a twenty-something, I grew up with Pokemon over 20 years ago and it felt so nostalgic to share it with this new generation of children. The final touch of the Pokemon program was that I turned on the Lure modules for our two Pokestops and was happy to hear when a child caught a Graveler or Vulpix.

My department head actually cosplayed Officer Jenny over the summer and so I asked her to wear the costume briefly and walk around the program. A lot of the children knew who Officer Jenny was and was so happy to talk a picture of her. I wore my newly created Pikachu dress and my custom made The Peas Pod Growlithe brooch. Don’t we look amazing? So happy with the success of my program.

My favorite part was observing how they choose to decorate their Pokeballs and little Pikachu faces. Look at some of the Pikachu origami the children made!

Look at the different Pokeballs the children styled. So much creativity.