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| Author Jason Fry with the Star Wars Cosplayers (Photo Credit: Carlsbad City Library) |
Our local libraries have been a really great source of fun and entertainment for my kids lately, having after school events about the Titanic, Shakespeare, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
But today's event takes the cake.
The Star Wars West Coast Tour came to one of our library locations in Carlsbad this afternoon, and it was so much fun for kids of all ages (and adults too... there were MANY adults fanning over the Storm Troopers and the Tuscan Raider !)
We started off by getting our Galactic Passports, and from there there were all kinds of fun stations with activities to complete for stickers.
There was the Yoda Soda station, with old Ewoks cartoons that I remember from Saturday mornings when I was, like, 4 years old.
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| Sippin' Yoda Soda, watching some classic '80's Ewoks cartoons. |
Then there were Lego X-Wing Fighter building contests, and coloring and activity pages galore. And adorable Yoda origami!
Outside, in the beautiful children's garden area, they had a "Feed Jabba the Hut" beanbag game, with more stickers and prizes.
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| Feeding Jabba |
The whole time there were cosplayers walking around taking pictures with the kids (And the fun, geeky adults that tried to play it off that they were there just for their kids...). They were fantastic, and great with the kids.
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| Posing with some Mandalorian Mercs... |
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| Storm Trooper love... |
We also got to meet author Jason Fry, who has written the Lego Visual Dictionary books, as well as other Star Wars reference books, and also a few novels for young readers (Including the non-Star Wars related The Jupiter Pirates: Hunt for the Hydra, which looks kind of really awesome, like a Steampunk pirate adventure. It's been added to my to-read list, even if it is aimed at the 8-12 year old crowd.)
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| Meeting author Jason Fry, and getting our new book signed. |
It was a really great afternoon for both my 4 year old son and 8 year old daughter.
And I'll admit, I was kind of fangirling myself... those costumes were really cool!
I know I for one am looking forward to the summer reading program at our library, with events like these, as well as prizes for reading books, all summer long.
You should check your local library for fun events such as this one (which are always FREE at our libraries! Yay free fun!), or summer reading programs. And if they don't already offer these kinds of things, suggest that they do, or even volunteer to lead one about something you or your kids are interested in. It's a great after school activity opportunity, where kids (and maybe even parents) have fun while learning something new.
That's so much fun! I wish we had such cool events at our library. Out here in Suburbia LA we have some story reading and also drumming... but not that kind of pop-culture fun stuff. I'm sure you're right there for Comic Con in July, right?
ReplyDeleteWe're so blessed/lucky to have such great library programs near us. You should definitely suggest to your library to have some more fun pop-culture-book-tie-in types of events! I'm sure they'll be a hit!
ReplyDeleteAnd I wish we were going to ComicCon!! It just sells out so fast, and is so expensive, so unless we win tickets, I don't think it will happen... but I think we might try to go to NerdHQ, which is Zachary Levi's FREE answer to ComicCon at the Qualcom (Chargers) Stadium! That would be awesome! It is the same weekend as ComicCon, so many of the people/stars making appearances there will also be at NerdHQ. :)