Our library makerspace is consistently used during the holiday season. Lots of card making and crafting personalized gifts keep our students busy. This year we added a fun challenge. Create an ugly sweater. Many students took us up on this challenge and goodness the results were quite… well, ugly.

We left a template of a sweater in the makerspace area and the students could use any materials they could find to create their own masterpiece. The activity quickly gained attention as students displayed their work in the library.

The judging was done by student popular vote and there were secondary ribbons for various categories judged by the library staff. All in all, we had lots of fun and we got to experience a fun, festive, and creative side to our students.

Here’s a look at some unique sweaters: