Pokémon Go at the Library
The first program I helped plan at the library, was a Pokémon GO! themed party with Syrena, when Pokemon Go! first came out. We made team badges so the kids could pick their favorite Go! Team: Mystic (blue), Valor (red) or Instinct (yellow).
We also made a Gym Badge for our library. I drew the badge in Photoshop in the style of Pokémon and used elements of our library logo. Then we made them into buttons. For activities we decorated ping pong balls with permanent marker to look like poké balls, then we threw them at cardboard cutouts of Pokemon. If they knocked them, over the Pokémon were caught. The last activity we did was a scavenger hunt.
We hid 100 small plastic pokémon in the children’s department for the kids to walk around and find, similar to how the game has you walk around town searching for Pokémon. Each kid had a sheet of paper with 3 poké balls on them as a reminder that they could only catch 3 Pokemon. After they found 3 Pokémon they traded Pokémon with each other. It was a lot of fun, and I would like to do that program again some day.
Mallory Thompson
Library Assistant (Children’s Department)