Doodles

During the months of December and January, our passive program in the teen area was very simple.  I put out some quarter sheets of colored paper and asked the teens to draw something.  They were then invited to pin their drawings up on the bulletin boards.

In two months time, we had 21 doodles posted up on the bulletin board.  Not bad considering how slow of a month December usually is in Library Land.  It was also really interesting to see what kinds of things the teen choose to draw.  Subjects ranged from flowers to fan art to winter scenes to animals.  The artistic rendering ranged from super basic to very detailed.  But since it's all anonymous, there was (I hope) no real pressure for anyone to do anything in particular - which is in my mind one of the major appeals of this activity.