Libraries: Activity badge ideas

Tags: Badges, Challenges, Libraries

Adding custom activity badges to your reading challenges can be a great way to promote other library resources and engage with readers of all levels and ages. Here’s a list of crowdsourced activity ideas to add to activity badges in your next challenge:

Activities that promote library resources

Community exploration activities

Activities to connect with a librarian

Outdoor activities

Family-friendly activities to do at home

Activities that promote library resources

• Learn 10 words in a new language (and link to any applicable library resources).

• Check out an audio book (and link to any applicable library resources).

• Check out an ebook (and link to any applicable library resources).

• Attend library programs and events (and link to a specific event or calendar).

• Watch a movie you checked out from the library (and link to your movie collection).

• Try a new recipe for dinner (and link to your cookbook collection).

• Research your ancestors (and link to any applicable library resources).

• Read a book by a local author (and link to your local authors collection).

• Check out a book from a genre you don’t normally read.

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Community exploration activities

• Visit a specific local park or garden.

• Go to a specific local museum or historical site.

• Visit a local conservation site.

• Create a community scavenger hunt, with each activity as a clue that can be completed by typing in a set secret code.

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Activities to connect with a librarian

• Send a picture of you reading (and provide a social media handle or email address).

• Add your librarian as a friend in Beanstack (and share your friend code).

• Ask a librarian to recommend their favorite book and then check it out! What was it?

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Outdoor activities

• Go on a backyard safari and look for signs of local wildlife.

• Learn how to identify local flora and fauna (and link to your nature collection).

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Family-friendly activities to do at home

• Draw a picture.

• Try a science experiment.

• On “Family Friday,” do one of the following: watch a movie, play a game, clean together, do an art project, garden together, or make dinner together.

• Create a family time capsule with drawings, letters, and meaningful objects.

• Have a family movie night! What movie did you watch together?

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