Adult Summer Library Badge Book Challenge 2025

 

Want to plan out your badges before you enter your activities in Beanstack? Here’s a list of all the activities for the 2025 Badge Book Adult Summer Library Challenge! You’ll need to complete one activity for each badge to earn the badge, and you’ll need to earn seven total badges to complete the challenge.

Just want to read, read, and read some more? Try the Bookworm Challenge instead!

Community Coral

Friends & Community

  • Read or listen to a book and discuss it with someone else.
  • Watch a movie with a friend or family member who you don’t live with.
  • Plan a special activity with a friend or family member.
  • Connect with a friend or family member you haven’t talked to in a while.
  • Do something to help you meet new people in your community.
  • Do an art project together with a friend or family member or engage in a creative community project
  • Spend at least an hour helping out in your community.
  • Spread joy! Give out three compliments.
  • Do something to make another person’s day better.
  • Have a say in your community! Participate in local government or contact someone who represents you.
  • Read or listen to a book with a pink cover.
  • Create your own activity that strengthens your relationships within your immediate or wider community.
Creative Crimson

Art & Music

  • Read or listen to a fiction novel or graphic novel.
  • Watch a concert or theater production.
  • Finish an art or craft project.
  • Write a poem, song, short story, or essay.
  • Try a new creative activity or learn a new skill for a hobby you already do.
  • Make music together: jam with a group, sing with a choir, go out for karaoke, or make music with others in your own way.
  • Create a playlist for a specific purpose, person, or mood.
  • Listen to an entire album that you haven’t heard before.
  • Make something that you would normally purchase.
  • Color your world: add more color to your meals, your surroundings, your outfit, or another part of your day.
  • Read or listen to a book with a red cover.
  • Create your own activity that showcases your creativity.
Outdoor Orange

Enjoy Nature

  • Read or listen to a book with an animal protagonist.
  • Watch a movie or documentary that involves nature.
  • Research to identify a plant, animal, or something else you found that’s new to you.
  • Plant something (inside or outside).
  • Create something inspired by natural elements or using natural elements.
  • Do something that helps conserve or improve Earth’s resources.
  • Spend at least 15 hours outside over a 7-day period.
  • Cook something outside.
  • Do something outside at night: go on a night hike, watch for shooting stars, have a bonfire, or create your own outdoors nighttime activity.
  • Help Wisconsin animals! Participate in a Citizen Science project to monitor wildlife.
  • Read or listen to a book with an orange cover.
  • Create your own outdoors activity.
Daunting Dandelion

Challenge Yourself

  • Read or listen to a book that you’ve been meaning to read for more than 12 months.
  • Watch a movie that you’ve been meaning to watch for more than 12 months.
  • Finish a project that’s been on your to-do list for more than a month.
  • Read or listen to a book that scares you.
  • Watch a movie that scares you.
  • Being creative can be daunting! Give yourself permission to fail and make purposely bad art.
  • Spend an entire day “single tasking” and focusing on only one thing at a time.
  • Schedule an appointment that you’ve been putting off.
  • Prepare for the worst: assemble an emergency preparedness kit, restock your first aid kit, or review your tornado and fire plans.
  • Do something that scares you.
  • Read or listen to a book with a yellow cover.
  • Create your own activity that challenges you.
Entertaining Emerald

Fun & Games

  • Read or listen to a funny book.
  • Read or listen to a book that features sports or games.
  • Watch a funny movie, a comedy special, a season of a funny show, or listen to a funny podcast.
  • Watch a movie that features sports or games.
  • Take part in the Library’s Hometown Week Treasure Hunt or find the geocache at the Library.
  • Play a new game.
  • Go to a live sports event (parks and rec events count!).
  • Put together a jigsaw puzzle.
  • Do a crossword, word search, sudoku, or other puzzle every day for a week.
  • Do something creative to make someone else laugh.
  • Read or listen to a book with a green cover.
  • Create your own activity that features fun and games.
Backyard Blue

Home & Neighbors

  • Read or listen to a book with a Wisconsin connection.
  • Watch a movie with a Wisconsin connection.
  • Support a locally owned business.
  • Reorganize, rearrange, declutter, or clean out something in your house.
  • Experience three different works of art in your community.
  • Makeover, mend, or repair something you own or something you got secondhand.
  • Eat something grown locally.
  • Read the manual or watch a video for something you own.
  • Read a local newspaper or a regional magazine cover to cover.
  • Do something to connect with your neighbors.
  • Read or listen to a book with a blue cover.
  • Create your own activity to appreciate your home and your neighborhood.
Library Lilac

Books, Books, Books

  • Attend a library program.
  • Convince someone to do the Summer Library Challenge with you.
  • Follow or tag the Library on social media, share a post from the Library, or sign up for the Library email newsletter.
  • Pick out a book that you know absolutely nothing about and start the book without reading the cover first.
  • Read or listen to a book belonging to a library that’s not your usual home library.
  • Use the Library from home! Learn something new from an online library resource like CreativeBug, Gale Courses, or Udemy.
  • Read for an hour in a location where you don’t usually read.
  • Read or listen to a book from a display at a library.
  • Tell the librarians a joke
  • Send a postcard to the library from your summer adventures!
  • Read or listen to a book with a purple cover.
  • Create your own library related activity.
Temporal Tan

Past & Future

  • Read or listen to a book that involves time travel or multiple time periods.
  • Read or listen to a book to learn about a historical event that you know nothing about.
  • Read or listen to a book set in the future.
  • Watch a movie or documentary about a historical event that you know nothing about.
  • Watch a movie set in the future.
  • Start (or update!) your bucket list for this summer, this year, or even further into the future. Make a plan for checking something off the list.
  • Visit a historical museum or site.
  • Do something to plan for the future, like making or updating your will or powers of attorney, creating a budget, updating your resume, or reviewing financial goals.
  • Interview a friend or family member about something that happened to them in the past.
  • Help preserve history by volunteering as a Citizen Archivist.
  • Read or listen to a book with a brown cover.
  • Create your own past or future based activity.
Bold Black

New Experiences

  • Read or listen to a book published in the last 12 months.
  • 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).
  • Read or listen to a book that has been translated into English from another language.
  • Read or listen to a book that has been challenged somewhere.
  • Watch a movie that came out in the last 12 months.
  • Watch a movie that is filmed outside of the United States and is set in that country.
  • Ask someone for a recommendation (book, movie, food, place to visit, etc) and try their recommendation.
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • Learn an interesting new fact.
  • Read or listen to a book with a black cover.
  • Create your own activity that explores new experiences.
Self Care Silver

Stay Healthy

  • 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.
  • Exercise your mind: read or listen to a book with a mystery in it.
  • Nourish your body creatively! Try a new ingredient, new technique, or new recipe.
  • Do something to move your body: walk, have a dance party, try a wellness class, garden, stretch your body, etc.
  • Love yourself creatively! Give yourself a compliment.
  • Dedicate time to a project that you want to do for yourself.
  • Make your time online more enjoyable. Unsubscribe to email lists, unfollow people who aren’t bringing you joy, clean out your downloads, go through your photos, or organize your email.
  • Do something restful.
  • Try something creative with your appearance: put together a new outfit, try a new hairdo, or experiment with a new makeup option.
  • Read or listen to a book with a gray or silver cover.
  • Create your own activity that makes you feel better physically, mentally, or emotionally.
Reading Rainbow

Survey Says!

  • Finished your Summer Library Challenge and want to tell us how it went? Didn’t finish and want to tell us why? Fill out our short survey.