List of fun things to do with your child before they enter kindergarten.
The Arkansas Teen Book Awards winners for 2020 have been announced! Choose a book from the winning list and write a short summary about what you read! The list can be found here.For extra credit, head on over to vote for the Arkansas Teen Book Awards for 2021 which can be found here! You will have until August 31st, 2021 to get your votes in.
Make your own adventures by checking things off your bucket list! Does your bucket list include visiting a museum, restaurant, or park? Or maybe visiting someplace new? Share the top five things on your bucket list that you hope to accomplish this summer below. Go forward and adventure!
1.) Lay your book open on your fabric and cut the fabric to your specific notebook. The fabric should cover most of the inside of the book's front and back inside cover. The fur should only hang over the top and bottom of the book about half an inch.2.) After you have your fur cut to your book, use hot glue to glue the fur to the front of the book and to the inside covers of the notebook. Add a line of hot glue to the half inch that over laps the edges and push them together.
A game with ever changing rules and challenges! Where nobody knows the rules but the host!Come join us as we descend into madness with this crazy fun game on the Cross County Library's Teen Discord ServerThis even will begin July 20th, 2021 at 5:30 p.m.
Gartic Phone has become a popular online Telephone Game! Unlike the traditional version of the game, which deals only in messages, this version also incorporates drawings in order to raise more challenges.Join us as we play Gartic Phone together in the Cross County Library's Teen Discord Server!This program will take place June 15, 2021 at 5:30 p.m.
Using the provided clue(s), guess the name of the fairy tale!
Illustori is a word chain game by naming artwork cards!The artwork name that the turn player chooses can be a sentence, a quote, an onomatopoeia, or anything really. All it needs for chaining is the agreement from the other players!Join us as we laugh and play Illustori together through the Cross County Library Teen Discord Server!This program will take place June 01, 2021 at 5:30 p.m.
The Jackbox Party Pack is a series of party video games put together for a group to play along with! Join us as we play along to some wacky party games together through the Cross County Library Teen Discord Server!This program will take place July 06, 2021 at 5:30 p.m.
When two kids find and play a magical board game, they release a man trapped in it for decades - and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.Join us as we watch the original 1995 film - Jumanji through the Cross County Library Teen Discord ServerThis program takes place July 27, 2021 at 5:30 p.m.
It's the 1930s and your professor has gone missing! Follow his research, discover the mystery of The Lost Temple and save the world! Explore maps, read through journals, decode cyphers, and examine photographs to solve the challenges of an online escape room!Join us as we work together to discover the mystery of the Lost Temple through the Cross County Library Teen Discord Server!This program will take place June 29, 2021 at 5:30 p.m.
Pack Horse Librarians needed to be readers themselves in order to advise their readers and bring to them books that were useful and/or of interest to them. Arkansas State Library staff have created associated reading lists foryour summer reading. For If All Arkansas Read the Same Book, see especially "Fiction and Literature in Cussy Mary Carter's Bag"; "Reading the Great Depression"; and "If All Arkansas Reads - Over 20 Years". In this mission, you will read and review books related to the time period and to the If All Arkansas Read the Same Book program.
Readers on Cussy Mary's book route shared recipes in various ways. You will find examples of "Authentic Recipes from the Pack Horse Librarians" in the companion booklet (recipes begin at approximately page 27) for the novel. Read and peruse the recipes and make a recipe that interests you.
Read the short story below and answer the questions.Jack, Betty, and Matt love the fall season. They like jumping into the pile of leaves. Jack likes the pretty colors. Betty likes to make a big pile with the leaves. Matt likes to hide in the leaves.
Superfight is a card game that pits players against one another in hypothetical battles of real wit! The only way to win is to make the most compelling argument about the big questions in life: Who would win in a fight between a blind Ninja and Abraham Lincoln riding a bear? Which is the better weapon: an infinite sausage lasso or a skunk on a stick? What are the chances an army of penguins could stop an insane centaur? The possibilities are endless! Join us as we play this wacky game of insane arguments on the Cross County Library's Teen Discord Server!This program will take place June 08, 2021 at 5:30 p.m.
Books open doors to many places! Even though we are limited this year to travel, we may take a virtual field trips to see animals, parks, museums, outer space, geography, and history! Don't forget to mark each activity as completed once you've explored.
"Umm... Actually.." is a game where the players correct the host!The host will give the players a series of facts. However, something is slightly off about what the host says.. Buzz in when you think you know the correction that needs to take place, but don't forget to say "Umm.. actually.." before you correct or you won't get the point! The player with the most points at the end wins!Join us in the Cross County Library Teen Discord ServerThis even takes place July 06, 2021 at 5:30 p.m.
Watch the recorded event, A Conversation with Kim Michele Richardson, to complete this mission. You can watch the program on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4CQu7DBN3rmwZD8dqEwSYA?view_as=subscriber
Additional information is available on https://www.library.arkansas.gov/programs/arkansas-center-for-the-book/if-all-arkansas-read-the-same-book/.
Watch the recorded July 16 If All Arkansas Read the Same Book program, A Presentation by Kim Michele Richardson, to complete this mission. You can view the program on YouTube: