SCAVENGER HUNTS!
I got this idea from a meeting of children's librarians some time back, and it is such an easy and fun monthly passive activity for our young patrons!
We just finished up our Summer Reading Program (Libraries Rock!) and are on the last of three monthly hunts for rock/stone formations. June was Ohio rocks/statues, July was national rocks/statues, and August is international rocks/statues.
To set it up is super simple! Choose 12 items, print them out in color and then add an alphabet letter (cut from Ellison 4-inch dies) to the picture. Laminate, cut out, and then hide around your area. Have a sheet with smaller pictures of each of the items with a line next to them for patrons to jot down the alphabet letter.
Our hunts in June and July were super popular, as completion of them got the participant an extra entry into prize drawings at the end of the Summer Reading Program. We had nearly 200 hunts done during each of those months! Prizes ranged from bookmarks to LEGO bracelets (left over from last summer's Summer Reading Program, plastic ducks, suckers, Smarties candy, etc.
Here are some ideas for hunts:
- September is National Chicken Month. I found 12 different pictures of chickens wearing hats/clothes. I am thinking of using Easter eggs with some sort of candy inside as the prize.
- October is a perfect month to do monsters or something else Halloween-related. I am doing monsters this year, and the prize is a small rubber monster finger puppet.
- November this year is foods associated with Thanksgiving dinners.
- The 12 days of Christmas just begs to be used! Or you could do items associated with Christmas, such as trees, cookies, elves, Santa, etc. I did the 12 Days of Christmas last year and the prize was a candy cane.
- For March (and this is where I got the original idea), large eggs had book characters on them. The participants had to match the color of the egg with the character on them. For a prize, they received a plastic Easter egg with a candy bar inside.
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