Book Crush

Last night, 11 teen showed up for our rescheduled Book Crush party.  It wasn't as many people as we would have had on the original night, but we had a great time!  We played "How Well Do You Know Your Book Crush" and book character bingo, ate candy, and did a really random decoupage craft.  It sounds weird, but everyone decoupaged several smooth rocks with hearts, tissue paper, and book character names.  They're great for paperweights or decorations.  It was really popular and took up more time than I thought, so we didn't get to play Marry, Date, Dump.  We'll do that at our next Book Grub meeting!  We also had a cupcake-decorating contest with a book crush theme.  Check out our pictures: 

 

These girls came dressed as Audrey from Audrey, Wait! and Jackie from Bloody Jack.

Teferi's cupcake represented Alice from The Twilight Saga.

Christa's cupcake used gummy bears to reinact the death scene from Romeo and Juliet!

Laurel made Russia from Hetalia.

Some high schoolers in height order!

Book Crush!

Last Friday, 17 people came out to celebrate their love for fictional characters at the Teen Advisory Board's Book Crush party! It was so much fun to hear everyone's crushes, opinions, and reactions. We played book crush bingo (really an excuse to eat chocolate), made beaded bookmarks with a crush's name on them, wrote personal ads for our crushes, and decorated heart balloons. Of course there was lots of food, and lots of discussion of book boys! We even had one brave guy at the event, who knew a lot about Bella Swan and the whole Twilight series, and was absolutly hilarious about it. Also, Kaitlyn came dressed as a character from the Uglies series, complete with crash bracelets and face tattoo. It was completely pretty-making. At the end, people were reluctant to leave, and I finally had to shoo everyone out at about 8:45. I'd say it was a success! Except that I forgot my camera, so you'll just have to take my word for it.