Ages 7-11 Summer Library 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 Summer Library Challenge for ages 7-11! You’ll need to complete one activity for each badge to earn the badge. You can also earn badges by logging the time you read, or by writing a book review. Happy reading!

Library
  • Visit a library that’s not the Platteville Public Library
  • Try a book or movie recommended by someone at the library
  • Tell the Librarian a joke
  • Do the weekly library scavenger hunt
  • Download an e-book or e-audiobook
Come to one of these events!
  • Summer Kick Off: Rondini Bombastic Bubble Show on Monday, June 9 at 6pm at the City Hall Auditorium
  • Kids Money Game Day on Saturday, June 28 at 10:30am at the Library
  • Music & Juggling with Milwaukee Steve on Friday, July 18 at 6pm at the City Hall Auditorium
Hue & Do Library Color Quest
  • Go to the Library and complete at least 5 of the Library Activities listed on the Library Color Quest.
Crafts
  • Write a story or poem
  • Make chalk art
  • Help the Earth by planting something
  • Make your own craft
Action
  • Do a random act of kindness
  • Have a friend over for a visit
  • Try something new: a new food, new activity, new place, etc.
  • Make something that you can use every day
Enter the Katherine Applegate Writing Contest
  • Your writing can change and color our world! Write a short story between 1,000 – 1,500 words about a character that takes an action that changes someone else’s day for the better.
Favorite
  • Leave a note inside a favorite library book for the next reader to find
  • Listen to your favorite song
  • Re-read a favorite book
  • Help a grown-up cook your favorite meal
  • Spend an afternoon doing a favorite activity
Reading
  • Read a graphic novel
  • Read at night with a flashlight
  • Read or listen to a book by a person whose life is different than yours
  • Take a book with you on a trip and read a book someplace new
Listening
  • Try a Playaway/audiobook
  • Go outside and listen to the sounds of nature
  • Listen to a song that’s a different genre than you’re used to
  • Listen to someone tell you a story
Friendship
  • Give someone a hug, high five, or fist bump
  • Read aloud to someone
  • Go on an adventure with someone
  • Help out in the kitchen
  • Read the same book as someone else and discuss it
Terrific Tuesdays
  • Go to at least one Terrific Tuesday. Terrific Tuesdays meet every Tuesday from July 1 through August 19 from 11am-noon.
Watch
  • Watch a movie based on a book
  • Watch a band perform at Music in the Park
  • Close your eyes and pick a book off the shelves
  • Watch any sports team play, in person or on TV
  • Watch a documentary about an adventurer
Community
  • Go on a walk or a bike ride
  • Go to a Little Free Library
  • Go to Farmer’s Market
  • Go to a local park
Go read the Storywalk at the Platteville Inclusive Playground
  • Go read the Storywalk at the Platteville Inclusive Playground or scan the QR code and listen to the Storywalk
Survey