How it works
Pick up your Winter Reading log in the Children's Department.
- Keep track of the time that you read and the activities that you complete.
- Once you have read for 15 hours and/or completed 10 activities, bring your log back to the Children's Desk to collect your prizes.
- Finishing prizes will be available from January 2 through January 31.
Winter Activity Challenge
More information for many of the suggested activities, as well as themed reading lists, can be found below.
- Attend an event at the library.
- Look through family photos and tell the stories behind them.
- Play some favorite music and have a dance party.
- Fold and cut out paper snowflakes.
- Help plan and make a meal with your family (find kid-friendly cookbooks at the library under J641.5)
- Build a fort and use a flashlight to read inside it.
- Go on a family walk to admire holiday lights or decorations.
- Complete a jigsaw puzzle.
- Watch a new movie with your family.
- Draw or paint a winter scene.
- Write a poem about winter or a holiday tradition.
- Borrow a museum pass from the library and have an adventure.
- Borrow and try out an item from the Library of Things.
- Check out and read a magazine from the children's collection.
- Play a card game or board game with family or friends. Stop by the library to check out a board game or join us for a Puzzle and Game Swap on December 20!
- Visit the Forge and try a new creative activity.
- Read a biography about a person who interests you.
- Check out a Playaway and listen to a book while relaxing.
- Try a science experiment at home.
- Create something on the library's light bright wall or Lego table/wall.
- Sing or recite a nursery rhyme and clap along to the rhythm.
- Use a mirror to act out different emotions.
- Point out letters on toys, food boxes, and other objects around the house.
- Fingerpaint with your child.
- Make up and sing a fun song using your child's name.
- Look through family photos together and name the people you see.
- Read a rhyming book with your child and emphasize all the rhyming words.
- Help your child form letters out of clay or play dough.
- Make up a story using puppets or stuffed animals.
- Ask your child to tell you a story and write it down using their own words.
- Take turns playing "I Spy" to find colors or shapes.
- Have a tea party with real or pretend tea and treats.
- Try some yoga poses with your child.
- Build a tower with blocks or Lego bricks.
- Go for a nature walk and talk about what you see (trees, animals, tracks, etc.)
- Read a book about farm animals and practice making the animal sounds together.
- Have fun with a paper towel tube. Is it a microphone to sing into or a telescope to see the stars?
- Pick a "letter of the day" and point out things that begin with that letter throughout the day.