Adult Summer Library Badge Book Adventure 2024

 

Want to plan out your badges before you enter your activities in Beanstack? Here’s a list of all the activities for the 2024 Badge Book Adult Summer Library Adventure! You’ll need to complete one activity for each badge to earn the badge, and you’ll need to earn eight total badges to complete the challenge.

Library Scouts
  • Attend a library program.
  • Convince someone to do the Summer Library Adventure with you.
  • Follow or tag the Library on social media, share a post from the Library, or sign up for the Library email newsletter.
  • Read or listen to a book from a display at the library.
  • Send a postcard to the library from your summer adventures!
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own library activity.
Mail Call
  • Read or listen to a book that includes letters or notes.
  • Watch a movie that could have been much shorter if the characters had just talked to each other.
  • Write a letter, card, or postcard and send it to a friend or family member.
  • Tell someone they’re doing a great job: send a thank you note, leave a positive review for a local business, publicly shoutout a coworker or neighbor, etc.
  • Write a letter to your future self or a future generation.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own activity that involves communication.
Helping Hands
  • Read or listen to a book and discuss it with someone else.
  • Read or listen to a book about someone who inspires you.
  • Do something to help you meet new people in your community.
  • Have a say in your community! Participate in local government or contact someone who represents you.
  • Spend at least one hour helping out in your community.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own activity to help your community:
Arts & Crafts
  • Read or listen to a fiction book or graphic novel.
  • Write a poem, song, short story, or essay.
  • Experience a piece of art.
  • Finish an art or craft project.
  • Try a new creative activity or learn a new skill for a hobby you already do.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own activity that showcases your creativity.
Cookout
  • Read or listen to a book with a recipe in it.
  • Watch a cooking show or a movie that features cooking.
  • Try a food or dish that you’ve never had before.
  • Eat something locally grown.
  • Cook something outside.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own activity that involves food.
Friendship Bracelets
  • Plan a special activity with a friend or family member.
  • Watch a movie with a friend or family member who you don’t live with.
  • Read or listen to a book that includes a family tree at the beginning.
  • Read or listen to a book or watch a movie that was inspired by the creator’s friends or family.
  • Catch up with a friend or family member you haven’t talked to in a while.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own activity to connect with a friend or family member.
Ties to the Past
  • Read or listen to a book to learn about a historical event that you know nothing about.
  • Watch a movie or documentary about a historical event that you know nothing about.
  • Help preserve history by volunteering as a Citizen Archivist.
  • Interview a friend or family member about something that happened to them in the past.
  • Visit a historical museum or site.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own history-based activity.
Campground Maintenance
  • Read a home improvement magazine or watch a home improvement show and try something you saw.
  • Read the manual or watch a video for something you own and learn how to use it more effectively.
  • Reorganize, rearrange, declutter, or clean out something in your house.
  • Makeover, mend, or repair something you own or something you got secondhand.
  • Finish a project that’s been on your to-do list for over a month.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own home improvement activity.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
  • Read or listen to a book that scares you.
  • Watch a movie that scares you.
  • Do something that scares you.
  • Tell a scary story in the dark.
  • Do something that would help you survive if you were in a dystopian novel or horror film.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own scary activity.
S’more Fun
  • Read or listen to a funny book.
  • Watch a funny movie, a comedy special, a season of a funny show, or listen to a funny podcast.
  • Make a funny video and share it with someone.
  • Show the librarians your Silly Walk.
  • Tell the librarians a joke.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own activity that makes you laugh.
In Your Own Backyard
  • Read or listen to a book with a Wisconsin connection.
  • Watch a movie with a Wisconsin connection.
  • Support a locally owned business.
  • Read a local newspaper or a regional magazine cover to cover.
  • Go someplace in the area where you’ve never been or haven’t been in at least two years (a park, a store, a restaurant, the top of the M, etc).
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own activity to appreciate our local community.
Sing-a-long
  • Read or listen to a book with a title that comes from a song lyric.
  • Listen to a soundtrack that an author put together to go with their book.
  • Watch a concert or theater production.
  • Listen to an entire album you haven’t heard before.
  • Create a playlist with a specific purpose, person, or mood in mind.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own musical activity.
Find Your Path
  • Read or listen to a book with a mystery in it.
  • Take part in the Library’s Hometown Week Treasure Hunt or find the geocache at the Library.
  • Watch a movie with a mystery in it.
  • Listen to a season of a podcast that involves a mystery.
  • Put together a jigsaw puzzle.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own activity that challenges your brain.
Great Outdoors
  • Read or listen to a book outside for an hour.
  • Watch a movie or documentary that involves nature.
  • Plant something (inside or outside).
  • Do some research and identify something you found outside that’s new to you.
  • Spend at least 20 hours outside over a 7-day period.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own outdoors activity.
Walk a Mile
  • Read or listen to a book by a person whose life has been shaped by different factors than your own (race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, class, political viewpoint, etc).
  • Watch a movie in a language you don’t know.
  • Read or listen to a book that has been translated into English from another language.
  • Read a book that has been challenged somewhere.
  • Go to a public event that celebrates a group of people whose lives have been shaped by different factors than your own (race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, class, political viewpoint, etc).
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own activity that helps you learn more about the experiences of people whose lives are different than your own.
Trailblazers
  • Read or listen to a book by a debut author.
  • Read or listen to a book published in the last 12 months.
  • Watch a movie directed by a first-time director or starring an actor in their first lead role.
  • Ask someone else for a recommendation (book, movie, show, food, etc) and try out whatever they recommend.
  • Learn an interesting new fact.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own activity that explores new things.
Stargazer
  • Read or listen to a book that doesn’t take place entirely on Earth.
  • Watch a movie that doesn’t take place entirely on Earth.
  • Do something outside at night: go on a night hike, learn to identify new constellations, watch for shooting stars, have a bonfire, or create your own outdoors nighttime activity.
  • Tell someone a bedtime story.
  • Do something for 7 days in a row to improve your sleep routine.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own activity that involves outer space or nighttime.
Be Prepared
  • Read or listen to a book set in the future.
  • Watch a movie set in the future.
  • Prepare for the worst: assemble an emergency preparedness kit, restock your first aid kit, or review your tornado and fire plans.
  • Start (or update!) your bucket list. Make a plan for checking something off the list.
  • Plan for the future: make or update your will or powers of attorney.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own activity that involves future plans.
Light a Fire
  • Read or listen to a book with a love story in it.
  • Watch a movie with a love story in it.
  • Write and send a note to tell someone why you appreciate them.
  • Spread some love: do a random act of kindness for a stranger.
  • Show some book love: leave a note in a favorite book for the next reader.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own activity that celebrates love.
Tools for Adventure
  • Read or listen to a book that involves science or technology in some way.
  • Read or listen to a book that you learned about from someone online or post a review somewhere online of a recent book you read.
  • Watch a movie or documentary that involves science or technology in some way.
  • Do some technology housecleaning! Organize your email, unsubscribe to email lists, unfollow social media accounts that aren’t bringing you joy, clean out your downloads, or sort your saved documents.
  • Disconnect from technology! Go completely screen-free for an entire day.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own activity that involves science or technology.
First Aid
  • Read or listen to a book that makes you feel better physically, mentally, or emotionally.
  • Watch a movie or show that makes you feel better physically, mentally, or emotionally.
  • Dedicate time to a project that you want to do for yourself.
  • Do something to move your body: walk, have a dance party, try a wellness class, garden, stretch your body, etc.
  • Give yourself a compliment.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own activity that makes you feel better physically, mentally, or emotionally.
Hit the Bullseye
  • Read or listen to a book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics..
  • Read or listen to a book that features sports or games.
  • Watch a movie that features sports or games.
  • Go to a live sports event (parks and rec events count!).
  • Play a new game.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own activity that involves sports and games.
On the Waterfront
  • Read or listen to a book that involves water, such as the 2024 Great Lakes Great Read book: The Best Part of Us by Sally Cole-Misc.
  • Watch a movie or documentary that involves water.
  • Do something that helps conserve or improve natural resources.
  • Do something that helps to improve water quality.
  • Go fishing, canoeing, swimming, or other outdoor activity that involves water.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own activity that involves water or other natural resources.
Wildlife Friends
  • Read or listen to a book with an animal protagonist.
  • Watch a movie that features an animal.
  • Make a toy, a treat, or other gift for a pet.
  • Do something kind or helpful for an animal.
  • Help Wisconsin animals! Participate in a Citizen Science project to monitor wildlife.
  • Choose your own adventure! Create your own animal related activity.