New Reading Challenges at the Library!
Summer Reading Program Begins
Registration for the Cathlamet Public Library’s Summer Reading program, “Oceans of Possibilities”, begins June 19. The program, for readers of all ages, is co-sponsored by the Blanche Bradley Memorial Library Foundation. The library challenges readers to set personal or family daily reading goals and log titles of books they have read. Readers who log titles of books they have finished between June 19 and July 3, 2022 can earn prizes along the way.
Besides the online reading challenge, the library will host events Wednesdays, June 22 through August 3rd from 1-2pm, for children ages 5-15 and their families at Erickson Park on Columbia Street. Activities at the events include outdoor story times, make-and-take ocean-related crafts, games, and a final awards party with snacks, certificates and more prizes August 3rd from 1-2:30pm.
2022 Cathlamet Public Library
Children’s Summer Reading Program
Wednesdays, June 22-Aug 3rd, 1-2+pm, at Erickson Park
Register at: cathlamet.beanstack.org or at the library.
6/22 – “Discover Treasures” / Beanstack summer reading challenge
- Seashore life: seashells / tide pools / marine shore mammals / shorebirds
- Seashell art / starfish art
6/29 – “Explore New Depths”
- Ocean zones / diving /submarines /submersibles
- Ocean zone painting
7/6 – “Seven Seas Infinite Stories” – Shipwrecks / Lighthouses
- Build an aluminum foil boat that can hold x numbers of pennies and float
- Craft: start making a jellyfish
7/13 – “Our Blue Planet” – Ocean tides, currents, weather / flotsam and
Jetsam, pollution / Ocean trivia
- Crafts: Fish from recycled plastic water bottle / finish jellyfish
7/22 – “An Ocean of Wonders” – Shark / fish / whale / octopus / squid
- Crafts: Foam shark in ocean water bottle /pufferfish painting
7/29 – “Uncharted” – Ocean floor: Bermuda triangle, coral reefs, Sargasso
Sea, Mariana trench / eels, salmon
- Undersea collage mural (each one makes a section and we put it together)
8/3 (1-2:30pm) - “Award and Participation Party”
- Snacks, prizes, awards, certificates
For more info call 360-795-3254, Tues-Sat, 2-5pm.
People can register on the Beanstack mobile app or at cathlamet.beanstack.org, or get registration paperwork at the library.