Summit Elementary School

Little Free Library

WAEA Art Educator Idea Exchange à la Speed Dater/Jill La Grange

Summit Art and Design Clubdecided to create a Little Free Library for Summit School and the community because they wanted to promote literacy and art.

Sketchbooks too!!!Art and Design Club designed sketchbooks for the Summit School Little Free Library.Sketchbooks will be available for each student, community member and parent to create a work of art for the Little Free Library.

Artists design aLittle Free Library for Summit

Drawings to

maquettes(three-dimensional models).

All Summitstudents and teachers vote for their favorite Little Free Library design!

Little Free Library Organization made signs

for our Summit Elementary School Little Free Library.

Hooray!!!

Next Steps:

Mr. Knott has graciously offered to build the Little Free Library based on the selected student design

Artists will embellish the Little Free Library and place library in front of building.

With Our Own Two Hands will raise money and accept book donations for Summit’s Little Free Library

Librarian will teach students about lending libraries, creating a collection and book evaluations.

Summit’s Little Free Library will be listed on Google Maps for all to visit!!!

The more you read and draw, the more things you will

know. The more that you learn,

the more places you’ll go! Inspired by Dr. Seuss

Students create sketchbooks for the Little Free Library!!!

Parent volunteer and students build Little Free Library

Artists add primer to Little Free Library!

Little Free Library is completed with:

Mail box on right side for Donated By Stickers

Waterproof roof and doors

Chapter Books

Picture Books

Little Free Library Signage provided by L.F.L. Organization

Embellished exterior by creative, hands, hearts and heads of Visual Art and Design Club

Summit Librarian, Alyssa, teaches all students about other Little Free Libraries throughout the world, purpose of the Little Free Library, how to use the library, how to donate books to the library and the cataloging of books in three categories: picture books, sketchbooks and chapter books. Stay tuned for more to come….