“I never met a color I didn’t like.” – Dale Chihuly Color is everywhere! Can you guess the color for each of these riddles?
Can you build a TOWER? Look for items you have at home that would be fun to build with:
Popsicle Sticks Blocks Tubes Folded Paper Straws Cups
Then follow the challenges and write down what you did!
Captain’s logs and ship’s logs have a rich history, and provide insight into how life on seafaring vessels went (and still go today). Continue this tradition by keeping track of what, where, and how you read this summer.
Make your own adventures by checking things off your bucket list! Does your bucket list include visiting a museum, restaurant, or park? Or maybe visiting someplace new? Share the top five things on your bucket list that you hope to accomplish this summer below. Go forward and adventure!
Try one of these 63 SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS with materials you have at home!
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LIST!
Choose an item or person (this can be you in a mirror if you like) to draw without looking down at your paper or lifting your pen from the paper.
Warning...this will not come out looking pretty...
Check out my attempts below. A book cover with a face on it makes a great subject.
Submit up to 5 different blind contours.
My reference picture:
step one, continuous line:
step two color it in! :
Drawing cubes is fun and satisfying. The more cubes the better! This is a fun, relaxing, abstract art style. Try it!
1. Begin by drawing a few cubes. As many as you want spaced however you want!
2. Use a ruler or straight edge to connect the cube's corners with straight lines. Don't think too much about this, just start and stop drawing when you feel like it.
3. Color it in if you want!
It's so fun to draw faces. Sometimes this is waaay easier than drawing a whole person. Here are a few rows of eggs for you to fill in with whatever weird and wonderful faces you, please.
1. Across the top of your page do a looping oval pattern! Continue until the page is covered.
2. Add faces! Feeling stuck? Try using the "roll for a face" guide for inspiration.
Go from abstract to ideas!
Use a non-toxic washable marker to color your fingertip and the finger's outer edge. Do a couple of colors if you're feeling dangerous. Stamp all over a blank piece of paper with no particular pattern- overlap is good.
Go in with a pen or marker of another color to turn these smudges into something!
Here's mine:
step 1:
step 2:
Only 5% of the ocean has been explored, which means any fish you draw could be down there! Try this easy doodle activity.
STEP ONE:
Using a marker, pencil, or pen draw a big loopy shape that closes.
STEP TWO:
Turn all of your loops into fish! Blub blub.
Doodle using your initials! Great for relieving stress.
Here are two methods you can try.
1. Fill a page with different styles of your initials
2.
Try starting with your initials, large and simple.
Now decorate them!
Try this relaxing doodle that will look incredible with little effort. There are two ways you can do this mission- find both versions and instructions in the mission's activities.
***librarian note*** I had so much fun making the example piece for this one, it came out so cool!
Use one of these "roll for a face" templates to make one or more weird works of art, no dice? Use this auto dice rolling site, https://www.calculator.net/dice-roller.html
Find more templates in the activity section.
Begin this doodle challenge by making a shape on your paper in pencil!
Use a star, heart, or bubble letter. You'll be erasing this later so don't push too hard.
Fill your shape in with a pen or marker. Anything goes here it doesn't have to be good it just has to fill space! Doodle your heart out!
step 1: Make your outline in pencil:
step 2:Fill in, and erase the outline:
Doodle a few big basic flowers spread out on a piece of paper. In between flowers
In between flowers draw smaller flowers with pieces hidden “behind” bigger ones
Draw little circles, spirals, and others to fill the white space- I suggest doing 4 or 5 circles inside each other.
Find more doodling guides and zen tangles in the library's arts and crafts section, or talk to a librarian for help!
Get your doodling down to a science! Try to fill a portion of your page with the following style of doodling
Find more doodling guides and zen tangles in the library's arts and crafts section, talk to a librarian for help!
Start in one corner of your page by doodling a cluster of curved lines
Add more clusters like the first one but in various directions so that they seem to be overlapping each other
Color in sections to add a splash of color
Investigative journalists dig deep to work to expose the world of crimes, corruption, and more. Use your investigative skills to determine whether these facts are true or false. Dig deep and see what you can uncover!
Do something nice and show KINDNESS to others! These activities are great ways to show your generosity.
Make your own hand monster!
Try it right side up and then upside down!
1. trace 4 of your fingers and curve around where your thumb would be.
Make a monster out of it! Add body parts, facial features, hair, clothes, or whatever you want! The upside-down hand makes a great sea creature.
Go for a walk!
Walk to the library- get 20 points,
walk your dog- get 20 points,
walk to the park- get 20 points,
go on a hike- get 20 points,
take a leisurely stroll with your family- that's 20 points too!
Walk to the beach on vacation? Yup that's 20 points too!
Just take a picture of your outdoor walk location! You can repeat this challenge multiple times.
You might have heard New York State called The Big Apple. This is because apples are the official fruit of NY.
Challenge yourself to find at least 5 different NY state symbols. Can you find them all?
Arrgh! Think you are ready to be a PIRATE? Can you find at least 5 pirate-themed items. Look around your house, the library, park, all around you!
Ready? What is a pirate's favorite kind of ice cream? Vanillaaaaaaar!!
Small gestures make the most difference on a daily basis. It's easy to get so preoccupied with our own lives that we forget about others, but with just one simple act of kindness, we can change the way someone else's day goes, and we can better ourselves and the world in the process. This challenge is designed for you to take the time to do something for someone else — and hopefully they will pay it forward to the next person!
Books can take you around the world and back, even if you're only in your backyard! Show us all the fun and exciting places you read by marking each place you read. Get out and read!
Take a picture of you curled up with a book in the coziest spot ever! This doesn't need to be a selfie. You could be on your couch, your porch, or snuggling with your cat.
Never take pictures of friends or family without their permission. Always ask others if it's ok to post a picture of them...even if it's just a toe or the back of their head.
Read on your porch, read at the park, read on the steps of the library...anywhere you do not indoors will count here. Submit a picture of you reading in any outdoor location. All that's required is that we can tell you're outdoors and the cover of the book can be seen.
Click HERE to print your reading log! Color in a circle for every 15 minutes you read!
Each row is 1 hour of reading! The whole page is 20 hours!
When you are done, go to Reading Log 2!
Click HERE to print your reading log! Color in a circle for every 15 minutes you read!Each row is 1 hour of reading! The whole page is 20 hours! When you are done, go to Reading Log 2!
When you are done, go to Reading Log 3!
Click HERE to print your reading log! Color in a circle for every 15 minutes you read! Each row is 1 hour of reading! The whole page is 20 hours! When you are done, go to Reading Log 3!
When you are done, go to Reading Log 4!
Click HERE to print your reading log! Color in a circle for every 15 minutes you read! Each row is 1 hour of reading! The whole page is 20 hours! When you are done, go to Reading Log 4!
When you are done, go to Reading Log 5!
Click HERE to print your reading log! Color in a circle for every 15 minutes you read! Each row is 1 hour of reading! The whole page is 20 hours! When you are done, go to Reading Log 5!
Great job! You have completed the Summer Reading Program!
Click HERE to print your reading log! Color in a circle for every 15 minutes you read! Each row is 1 hour of reading! The whole page is 20 hours! Great job! You have completed the Summer Reading Program!
Roll for a weird animal! Make a monster mutant creature with ease!
Use a real 6 sided dice or this digital one to roll.
FRONT HALF OF THE ANIMAL:
1: dog
2: monkey
3: snake
4: walrus
5: giraffe
6: ant
BACK HALF OF THE ANIMAL
1: sheep
2: okapi
3: cow
4: frog
5: pig
6: peacock
Want to do more? Switch the columns and do it again!
Here's what I've made:
5 + 5 giraffe and pig
Round 2 swapped columns:
2 + 1 okapi and dog
Read the short story below and answer the questions.Jack, Betty, and Matt love the fall season. They like jumping into the pile of leaves. Jack likes the pretty colors. Betty likes to make a big pile with the leaves. Matt likes to hide in the leaves.
Lessons on Chess.com are divided into New to Chess (How to Play), Beginner (Fundamentals), Intermediate (key concepts), and Advanced (taking control)
Take any lesson from these sections and submit a screenshot of your completed lesson to get your points!
That page will look like this:
So if I were to complete the rest of the lessons I'd get another
Here is where you can find the education section of chess.com
I like this site for learning chess because it gives you in detail feedback on what mistake you made and what to try next time
This site is FREE you do not need the premium version to operate the site.
Visit a Virtual Aquarium like one of these!
Love to EXPLORE? Just because we are at home does not mean we can't experience something new!
Visit a Virtual Museum like the ones here https://www.timeout.com/travel/virtual-museum-tours or find another around the world!
Visit a Virtual Zoo like one of these!
Visit an International Landmark like one of these!
Watch my stop-motion doodle and then try it for yourself!
Follow these instructions:
Draw a circle (this is your pugs head)
Draw two small circles with dots inside (your pug's eyes)
For the pug’s nose start with an upside-down U that touches both eyes
Give him an upside-down triangle nose with two hooks coming out of the bottom, one facing left, and one facing right
Give your pug some wrinkles above and below his eyes, give it some dots on the left and right of his nose- these are for his whiskers
Give your pug two rhombus ears on either side of his head and color them in
Put a crown, bow, or any other accessory you want on your doggy
Did you know with your Mount Pleasant Public Library card you can get into a ton of the best museums in New York for free with the Museum Pass?
Take one out and send a picture of your favorite exhibit for 50 points!
Scroll through the mission activities to see all the cool museums you can visit with museum pass!
Fill a page with as many birds as you can! These do not need to look like they're from Earth.
Stuck?? Use the roll for a bird guide below, us this free dice roller if you have none on hand.
I recommend checking out Cornell University's free-to-watch bird cams for inspiration. Find that HERE.
Join us on July 25 for a slime-based study into mixing colors! We'll be making plain cloud slime and then using it as a canvas to mix colors on. We'll use a website that converts the hex codes of colors into the exact formula needed to make them. For example, we can make neon green by using 25% cyan, 25% green, and 50% yellow!
Register online on activity one!
Color theory is integral to good art- and what makes a better canvas to practice mixing colors on than slime?? Join us for some cloud slime fun and experimentation with color mixing!
This can be a literal drawing of what you did, a place you visited, or all the foods you ate today! It doesn’t matter just draw it. Throw in phrases or words if you want.
Check out my illustrated diary entry for 5/15/2023!
True or False. Are these space facts true? Or simply made up? Take a guess. You have a 50/50 chance of being right!Type true or false into the completion box for each fact listed.
Boarder a plain piece of paper with flowers! Check out the flower drawing guides below. Submit your flowers in the activity section.
If you want more inspiration look in the Mount Pleasant Public Library's Arts and Crafts section or our Gardening section. Ask a librarian for help they're very nice.
simple line flowers:
doodle roses:
complicated roses:
daisies and buttercups:
hibiscus:
Lavender:
Dandelion:
Lotus:
Sunflower:
Tiny doodle flowers that are easy to copy!