Ages 7-11 Summer Library Challenge 2026

 

Want to plan out your badges before you enter your activities in Beanstack? Here’s a list of all the activities for the 2026 Summer Library Challenge for ages 7-11!

You’ll need to complete one activity for each badge to earn the badge. To finish your Summer Library Challenge, complete 14 book or activity badges. If you complete more than 14 badges, you earn additional prize entries! You can also earn badges by logging the books you read. 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!
Library Activity Map
  • Go to the Library and complete at least 5 of the Library Activities listed on the Library Activity Map.
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
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
Read
  • 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
Listen
  • 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 June 30 through August 18 from 11 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
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