TEEN VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Are you in the 6th grade or higher this year? Are you excited to help us with events at the library? Would you like to have some input on what teen activities we have at the library? Then our Teen Advisory Group may be a great fit for you! Join us for our monthly TAG group meeting on the 2nd Thurs of the month at 4pm (October-April). If you haven’t signed up to join yet, please follow this link to our form.
Many teens get jobs over the summer but don’t have much experience with interviews. We’re here to help! Make an appointment with our teen services librarian, Eric Knapp, to practice for the job interview of your choice. All he needs to know is your contact info and if you know where you’re applying, he can tailor his interview questions to that job. General practice interview questions can be used for those who don’t know yet where they’re applying. We’ll even give you guidance on your resume if you bring one!
To make an appointment, go to the teen services desk or use this link: Practice Interview Form
TEEN SUMMER READING PROGRAM
Teens, our prizes are all about what you want, as suggested by other Tipp teens! Our teen Summer Reading Program is a digital Bingo card where each spot earns you a raffle ticket to put towards the prize of your choice. Spread your raffle tickets about or put them all in one thing you really want to maximize your chances!
Raffle Prizes include Dayton Dragons tickets, Coffee Gift Pack, Card Games, a Korean Prize Pack, Art Supplies, and gift cards for all your favorite eats, candy, and bubble tea shops in Tipp City!
JUNE PROGRAMS
This art class is taught by local artist Rusty Harden. All participants will get to make a unique, personalized journal out of various patterned covers and interior pages to keep or give as the perfect gift! These journals feature patterns and stamps that YOU get to choose, secret pockets to hold your treasures, and decorations to adorn the covers!
Teens 6th-12th grade may apply as well as a parent/guardian who is attending with their teen. Limited to 15 spots.
Click here to sign up: DIY Journal Sign-Up Form
***THIS CLASS IS FULL AND THERE IS NO WAIT LIST – WE WOULD LIKE TO OFFER MORE SEWING CLASSES LATER IN THE YEAR SO CHECK BACK HERE EACH MONTH! ***
Ever wanted to learn how to sew but didn’t have the time, the equipment, or a teacher? Now you can, for free, at the library! Marcy Thomas will instruct participants on the basics of how to sew and use a sewing machine – zero experience necessary! This two-day class will not only teach you the basics so you feel comfortable with a sewing machine, but you also will get to create and take home a tote bag you make yourself!
While this program is primarily aimed at teens, a parent or guardian can sign up if signing up with a teen from their family. We are limited to 8 spots for 8 sewing machines, so please only sign up if you can be sure to attend BOTH sessions – Thank you!
Sign up here: Sewing Sign-Up
This art class is taught by local artist Rusty Harden. All participants will use watercolors to create a background and gel pens to illustrate them for an art project that really pops!! The watercolor design and shape as well as the gel pen illustrations are up to YOU to decide, and the photo shows just one example of the process. Every creation is unique!
Teens 6th-12th grade may apply as well as a parent/guardian who is attending with their teen. Limited to 15 spots.
Click here to sign up: Watercolor Doodle Sign-Up
This art class is taught by local artist Rusty Harden. All participants will create a unique collage using their choice of pre-cut patterned shapes, laid out in a grid of watercolors and unique gel pen designs! The watercolor design and colors as well as the gel pen illustrations are up to YOU to decide, and the photo shows just one example of the process. Every creation is unique!
Teens 6th-12th grade may apply as well as a parent/guardian who is attending with their teen. Limited to 15 spots.
Click here to sign up: Doodle Collage Sign-Up
JULY PROGRAMS
This art class is taught by local photographer Ricki Lee Hahn. Learn photography techniques for smartphones and digital cameras with local professional photographer Ricki Lee Hahn. Bring your own smartphone and a digital camera if you have access to one (we will have a limited amount of cameras to let participants use on hand).
Teens 6th-12th grade may apply as well as a parent/guardian who is attending with their teen. Limited to 15 spots.
Click here to sign up: Picture This! Photography class Sign-Up
MONTHLY DIY ACTIVITIES
This month’s Sound-Off Wall is all about being wild and free. So tell us your awesome summer plans! Make your opinion heard on our sound-off wall!
Try out our Nintendo Switch 2 multiplayer games with your fellow gamers. We have Mario Kart World, Super Mario Party Jamboree, Kirby’s Air Raiders, and lots of original Switch games like Super Smash Bros and Just Dance. Bring your friends!
New board games, card games, and puzzles have been added to the Teen Den for individuals and groups to enjoy. There is also a Dungeons & Dragons beginner kit to learn and lead a game even if you’re new to it. Have fun with your friends, make new ones, or just do your own thing!
Test yourself or challenge a friend with our DIY Lego challenges like tower and bridge building!
Help contribute to decorating the Teen Den by adding to our sticker mosaic each time you come in. Easy and fun for everyone!
TEEN RESOURCES
Find great teen books!
Search 4,000+ books, audiobooks, and films from YALSA’s book awards and book lists.
While these books have been selected for teens from 12 to 18 years of age, the award-winning titles and the titles on YALSA’s selected lists span a broad range of reading and maturity levels. We encourage adults to take an active role in helping individual teens choose those books that are the best fit for them and their families.
The Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted on the Thursday of National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year. Readers ages twelve to eighteen will vote online between August 15 – October 15 here on the Teens’ Top Ten site.
6-12 GD TEACHER RESOURCES
If you would like a staff member to collect books, audiobooks, or movies for you on a particular theme, subject, or author, you will need to fill out a teacher collection request form two weeks in advance of when you want to pick-up the books.
Check out what we've been up to in the TEEN department lately!
TEEN COMMUNITY ART PROJECT
Last summer, teens illustrated 5×7″ mini-canvases in a bookshelf theme to add to our teen community art project “Bookshelf” collage. Come check it out!!!
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