Are you thinking of hosting a Dogman event? Julia Brennan, Youth Services Technician, Bethlehem Area Public Library,Bethlehem, Pennsylvania shared:
“The Activity Kit attached was very useful. I printed out some of the pages, like the make your own comic section. I printed out a bunch of empty ones and completed one comic to use as an example. As for the flipbooks, I made 4 flipbooks, 2 more complicated ones, and 2 easy stick figure ones, for both the artists and non-artists alike to be inspired to make their own.
I had a K9 sniff test that I found online, I used coffee, orange (people kept thinking it was lime), salt & vinegar chips (a hard one), cinnamon, and parmesan cheese. I just wrapped the tiny plastic containers up and let the kids figure out what the smells were.
I made my own bookmarks, printed them out on cardstock, cut them out and let the kids color them in. We also have a button maker and I attached the template I made using transparent images online, in case anyone likes making buttons as much as I do. They were very popular with the kids, they want to put them on their backpacks when they get home!
Shockingly, Petey was more popular than Dogman! His buttons ran out fast.
I also had made a giant Dogman for people to pin the badge on, but it wasn’t very popular. I still recommend having either a large Dogman or Petey decoration up so people can take pictures next to them. Next time I’m doing a giant Petey. Or maybe Lil Petey?
I went with paper bag puppets for Dogman & Petey. I added the vampire teeth for Petey since I felt bad he didn’t have much to glue on. As usual, Petey was the hit of the party.
I recommend getting Scooby Snacks for the event, everyone loves to eat fake dog bones. :)”