Workshop: Parents and Kiddoes Co-Create

UntitledTown Book and Author Festival returns to Green Bay September 25-27th, 2026. Filled with over 80 speakers, 11 locations and more than 80 different events to choose from, there's something for literally everyone. Whether you're a reader, part of a vibrant fandom, a parent or a writer yourself, you'll find your home in UntitledTown. Best part? Everything is completely free to attend! Share the word by inviting your friends and neighbors and help us celebrate stories and reading in Northeastern Wisconsin.
This craft talk is one of over 80 events at UntitledTown. Here are the details:
Creativity is more fun when you share it.
Kids and Parents Co-Create is a hands-on workshop that helps families slow down, use their imaginations, and create something together. Through storytelling and creative exploration, kids and the adults they care about will learn the basics of building a story while discovering new ways to connect.
No writing experience is needed. The goal isn’t perfection, it’s imagination, collaboration, and spending meaningful time together.
Families will walk away with:
Stronger family connections through creating and collaborating together.
More confidence in their creativity and ideas.
A basic understanding of storytelling, including beginning, middle, and end.
A new way to spend quality time together as a family.
Simple tools to keep creating together at home.
About the leaders:
Lindsey Bussie
Lindsey is an author, writer, marketer, and small business owner with nine years of experience in social media, content strategy, and copywriting. As a freelance writer, she helps startups, entrepreneurs, and small businesses create clear, effective messaging and build a strong brand presence. A published writer and author of two novellas and a book, Lindsey brings creativity, strategy, and a people-first approach to every project.
Sharon Verbeten
For more than 30 years, I’ve written about everything from custom caskets and wastewater plants to medical discoveries and special needs children. I’ve interviewed cancer survivors, children’s book authors, funeral directors, antiques collectors and corporate CEOs. Throw anything at me, and I can research it and write about it in a compelling way. I’m a freelance writer and editorial director of my company All Write Creative Services and have presented on publishing and writing at Brown County Library and the Untitledtown Book Festival. I’ve also written two books for adults on Barbie and I’ve been regularly published in dozens of national trade and consumer magazines, including American Funeral Director, School Library Journal, Insight on Business, New England Antiques Journal and more. And marrying my loves of journalism and libraries, I’ve served as editor of Children and Libraries, the national publication of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), for the past 21 years. I’m the children’s services manager at the Manitowoc Public Library and I live in De Pere.