ReadSquared Reading Program

10 Pts

A Colorful Hunt

“I never met a color I didn’t like.” – Dale Chihuly
Color is everywhere! Can you guess the color for each of these riddles?

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10 Pts

A Technicolor Beginning

Your artsy journey starts here! Register for summer reading and get a Summer Reading Prize Bundle once available!

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5 Pts

Attend Arts & Chill Program

We're taking our bookends in the teen room from drab to FAB, and need your artistic expertise! Meet up in the teen room and get to painting bookends which will be displayed on the shelves! Snacks will be provided.

Date: June 21 @ 11am

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5 Pts

Come to a Craft Program

Get crafty this summer and earn summer reading points by coming to one of our craft programs.

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5 Pts

Enter Summer Cupcake Wars

Show off your culinary decorating skills and have a sweet treat! Design a summer-themed cupcake to be judged for a chance at a Barnes & Noble gift card! Ages 5 and up.

Date: August 15 at 11:30am

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10 Pts

I Spy Rainbow Walk

Find each of the following colors on a walk around your neighborhood. What kind of interesting things do you see? Mark each color off as you find them, don't forget to look high and low!

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5 Pts

Library Photo Scavenger Hunt

Team up with your friends and get the chance to win a gift card to a local business!

Come up with clues for another team to find different items throughout the library, trade with another team, and photograph the item! Whichever team finds their items first will win the gift cards!

It is important for teams to come promptly at 4:30 as the library doors will lock at 5, and the library will stay open after hours exclusively for this event. Sign up your team of 3 here - https://forms.office.com/r/gMS5VThx4n

Date: Friday July 25 @ 4:30pm

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Make a Recommendation Bookmark

Come to the Children's Desk and write a recommendation bookmark for a book you loved to stick in a book on our shelves.

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2 Pts

Make a Sidewalk Chalk Drawing

Grab some chalk, go outside, and make some beautiful artwork on the sidewalk! Have your grown-up post a picture on Instagram and tag @mountkiscolibrary so we can see your work of art!

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5 Pts

Plant a Garden

Add some color to our world by planting a garden! It can be outside or in a flowerpot.

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10 Pts

ROY G BIV Poem Stack

Artists know that ROY G BIV stands for the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Search your book shelves, a friends, family members, or the library's book shelves to find a book in each color of the rainbow. Then stack the books in ROY G BIV order to see what book spine poem is formed. Share what each book spine says and your poem below! For extra fun, take a picture of your ROY G BIV poem stack!

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10 Pts

Taste the Rainbow

Color is all around us, including the food we eat! While there are many foods similar in color, you will be surprised how many different colors food is. Can you think of a food for each of the below colors? Type the name of at least 1 food for each color listed below.

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