Youth Summer Reading Program 2020

Bem-vinda! Welcome to Brazil!

Virtual Story Time: Brazil

Print off this coloring sheet of the Brazilian flag.

Craft: Make a mask for Carnival!

Virtual Craft with Miss Kami

Materials:

• Printer
• Glue
• Something to color with
• Scissors
• Either a stick to hold your mask to your face, or strings to tie it around your head
• Optional: buttons, sequins, stickers, glitter, feathers, or other fun things to decorate your mask with

Instructions:

• Print out the craft template.
• Color your mask!
• Cut it out.
• Optional: use fun things like feathers, buttons, stickers, whatever you have on hand to make your mask EXTRA special!
• Glue or tape a stick to the side of the mask for one that you can easily hold up to your face.
• OR, punch holes in the side and use strings or elastic to tie it around your head.

Find a step-by-step video on our Facebook page!

Videos & Other Resources

• Chimichurri Sauce Recipe
• Brazil Facts for Kids
• Welcome to Snake Island, Brazil
• Cristo Statue: Nat Geo Kids

Read more about Brazil

K-2

• Songs from a Journey with a Parrot: Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes from Brazil and Portgual
• So Say the Little Monkeys
• The Shaman’s Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rainforest
• We’re Roaming in the Rainforest: An Amazon Adventure
• The Great Kapok Tree
• Sergio Saves the Game
• Let’s Play Soccer
• Brazilian Playground Music CD, by Putumayo World Music
• Brazil ABC’s

3-5

• Mardi Gras and Carnival
• Brazil
• Foods of Brazil
• Wild Girl
• Pink River Dolphins
• The Mystery in the Amazon Rainforest
• Soccer
• Mira and the Stone Tortoise

6-8

• Soccer Star Kaka
• The Amazon
• Where is the Amazon?
• The Amazon Rainforest
• Brazil in Our World
• Christmas in Brazil

Buongiorno and welcome to Italy!

Virtual Story Time: Italy

Print off this coloring sheet of the Italian flag.

Craft: Make your own gondola!

Virtual Craft with Miss Kami

Materials:

• Printer
• Glue
• Something to color with
• Scissors
• Optional: something to make the oar sturdier, like a skewer or popsicle stick

Instructions:

• Print out the craft template.
• Color your gondola and gondolier however you want!
• Cut out the pieces.
• Fold your gondola in half and glue it together, leaving some space in the middle to put your gondolier.
• Attach the gondolier inside the gondola.
• Glue the stick to the gondolier’s hand.

Find a step-by-step video on our Facebook page!

Videos & Other Resources

Virtual Art Project with Miss Mary
Miss Mary teaches us about the Italian Renaissance and Michelangelo, and gives you an idea for an art project.

• Gluten Free DIY Play-Doh Recipe
• Kid-Size Pizza Recipe
• Interesting Facts About Italy for Kids
• 15 MORE Facts About Italy for Kids
• 80 Delicious Facts About Pizza

Read more about Italy

K-2

• Count Your Way Through Italy
• Strega Nona
• Big Anthony
• Pizza for the Queen
• Madeline and the Cats of Rome
• Olivia Goes to Venice
• Mangia! Mangia!
• Paolo, Emperor of Rome
• On Top of Spaghetti
• Papa Gatto: An Italian Fairy Tale

3-5

• The Mystery at the Roman Colosseum
• Carnival at Candelight
• An Italian Cookbook for Kids
• Vacation Under the Volcano
• I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii
• Italy
• Find Out About Italy
• Cooking the Italian Way
• Where is the Colosseum?
• The Time Trekkers Visit the Romans
• Michelangelo
• Heroes, Gods, and Emperors from Roman Mythology

6-8

• The Second Mrs. Giaconda
• The Last Girls of Pompeii
• Julius Caesar: No Fear Shakespeare
• Leonardo da Vinci: The Genius Who Defined the Renaissance
• Leonardo’s Shadow: My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci’s Servant
• The Roman Colosseum

Welcome to Egypt!

VIRTUAL STORY TIME: EGYPT

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Print off this coloring sheet of the Egyptian flag.

Craft: Make A Pharaoh Headdress

Materials:

• Printer
• Glue
• Something to color with
• Scissors
• Construction paper

Instructions:

• Print out the craft template.
• Color your headdress however you want!
• Cut out the pieces.
• Cut a pair of slits following the dotted lines at the lower corners of the main headdress.
• Take the right side piece and apply glue on the area above the dotted line.
• Lift up the flap on the right corner of the main headdress. Position the right side piece under the flap. The dotted line on the side piece should be aligned with the lower edge of the headdress flap.
• Press down on the flap to glue the side piece in place.
• Repeat on left side.
• Cut out a strip of construction paper long enough to go around your head. Glue one end onto the excess strip on the headdress. Glue the headband shut.
• All hail the Pharaoh!

Find pictures with step-by-step directions on Firstpalette.com. You can also find an instructional video with some Pharaoh Fun Facts on our Facebook!

Videos & Other Resources

• History of Ancient Egypt for Kids
• National Geographic Kids: The Pyramids
• Colossal Mysteries—How Were the Pyramids Built?
• Short Film: Nobody Nose Cleopatra

Read more about Egypt

K-2

• We’re Sailing Down the Nile
• Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile
• The Hundredth Name
• Tutankhamen’s Gift
• Skippyjon Jones in Mummy Trouble
• Diego’s Egyptian Expedition
• Scooby-Doo: Museum Madness
• How the Camel Got His Hump

3-5

• The Mystery of the Ancient Pyramid
• Tut Tut
• Royal Diaries: Cleopatra, Daughter of the Nile
• Mummies in the Morning
• Pyramids
• Where Are the Great Pyramids?
• Egypt
• Ancient Egypt: 15 Step By Step Projects
• Who Was King Tut?
• You Wouldn’t Want to be Cleopatra!
• Foods of Egypt
• Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends

6-8

• The Golden Goblet
• Cleopatra’s Moon
• Sphinx’s Princess
• Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
• Hatshepsut and Ancient Egypt
• Mummies of the Pharaohs
• Egyptian Mythology

Konnichiwa, and welcome to Japan!

VIRTUAL STORYTIME :JAPAN

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Print off this coloring sheet of the Japanese flag.

MAKE A SUSHI CRAFT.

VIRTUAL INSTRUCTIONS WITH MISS KAMI

Craft: Make your own sushi

Materials:

• Printer
• Glue
• Something to color with
• Scissors
• Cotton ball
• Black tape or strip of black paper
• A dish or something to serve your sushi on

Instructions:

• Print out the craft template.
• Color and cut out your “fish” pieces.
• Place your fish on top of the “rice” (cotton ball)
• Wrap with “seaweed” (black tape)
• Serve in your sushi boat!

Find an instructional video with some fun facts about Sushi on our Facebook!

Videos & Other Resources

• The 8 Regions of Japan
• National Geographic Kids Japan Ninjas
• Japan: Snow Monkeys
• Origami Paper Cranes
• Taiko Drummer, Atsumi
• Facts about Japan
• MORE fun facts about Japan

Read more about Japan

K-2

• Count Your Way Through Japan
• Tea with Milk
• Moshi Moshi
• The Drums of Noto Hanto
• The Wakame Gatherers
• Yoko’s Paper Cranes
• Wink: The Ninja Who Wanted to Be Noticed
• Umbrella
• The Funny Little Woman
• Yoshi’s Feast

3-5

• Sword of the Samurai: Adventure Stories from Japan
• The Mystery at Mount Fuji
• Choose Your Own Adventure: Return of the Ninja
• Sam Samurai
• Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven
• I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011
• The Big Wave
• Japan: A Primary Source Cultural Guide
• Nintendo Innovator: Hiroshi Yamauchi
• Pokemon Designer: Satoshi Tajiri
• Ninjas and Samurai
• Anime
• Foods of Japan

6-8

• Japanese American Internment
• Culture in Japan
• Blood Ninja
• When My Name Was Keoko
• The Thing About Luck
• Samurai Shortstop
• Manga Mania: How to Draw Japanese Comics

Welcome to England this week!

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MAKE A CUPPA TEA WITH MISS MARY (VIRTUAL)

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Print off this coloring sheet of the British Union Jack.

Craft: Make your own Bobby

Materials:

• a toilet paper tube
• a printer
• a piece of paper
• some crayons or colored pencils
• scissors
• glue

Instructions:

• Print out the craft template.
• Color and cut out the template pieces.
• Glue the bobby together in the following order:
  • Pants
  • Shoes
  • Coat
  • Belt
  • badge/pocket
  • hat
  • night stick
  • whistle

See picture on the template for further help.

See full instructions on DLTK-Kids.

Videos

• Lonely Planet for Kids tour of London
• National Geographic Kids England Big Ben
• How to Make a Cup of Tea (according to the BBC and Science)
• Harry Potter at Home

Read more about England:

K-2

• Smudge, The Little Lost Lamb
• Octopus’s Garden
• Mary Poppins
• Yellow Submarine
• Beatrix Potter: The Complete Tales
• The Bells of London
• KeeKee’s Big Adventures in London, England
• Teatime with Emma Buttersnap
• Queen Elizabeth II
• The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard

3-5

• The Tempest
• Who Was Queen Elizabeth?
• Who Was William Shakespeare?
• Where is Stonehenge?
• Saint George and the Dragon
• Oliver Twist
• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
• This is London
• King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable
• The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail
• Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars: The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas
• Alice in Wonderland
• Who Were the Bealtes?

6-8

• Song of the Sparrow
• Winston Churchill
• The Counterfeit Princess
• Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Without a Country
• Here Lies Arthur
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
• Redwall

Bonjour, and welcome to France!

CLICK TO VIEW VIRTUAL STORY TIME: FRANCE

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Print off this coloring sheet of the French flag:

Make your own Madeline

Materials:

• a toilet paper tube
• a printer
• a piece of paper
• some crayons
• scissors
• glue

Instructions:

• Print out the craft template.
• Color and cut out the template pieces.
• Glue the large rectangular piece on first to cover the tube.
• Glue on the head, arms, and legs.

See full instructions and a video on DLTK-Kids.

Videos

• Quick Overview of the Louvre

• Paris and the Eiffel Tower for Kids  

• Crepes 4 Ways

Read more about France:

K-2

• Dodsworth in Paris
• This is Paris
• Adele and Simon
• Morris the Artist
• Bonjour, Mr. Satie
• Murphy Meets Paris
• Madeline
• When Pigasso Met Mootisse

3-5

• Who Was Joan of Arc?
• Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles
• The Phantom of the Opera
• The Three Musketeers
• Night of the New Magicians
• A French Cookbook for Kids
• Paris
• Where is the Eiffel Tower?
• France

6-8

• Spider’s Voice
• The Mystery of the Third Lucretia
• The Red Necklace
• The French Revolution
• Marie Antoinette and the Decline of French Monarchy
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame Graphic Novel

Check out Ebooks by subject!

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Bienvenido! This week we’re visiting our closest neighbor geographically—Mexico!

CLICK TO VIEW VIRTUAL STORY TIME: MEXICO

CLICK HERE TO PRINT ALL ACTIVITY PAGES FOR THIS WEEK.

Print off this coloring sheet of the Mexican flag:

This is a fun and simple craft that children can enjoy while they practice their coloring, scissor, and basic assembly skills.

Materials:

• something to color with
• scissors
• glue or brass fasteners
• printer

Print out this Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead craft—it’s a great way to practice with scissors.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW MISS KAMI’S INSTRUCTIONAL VIDE

Instructions:

• Print out the craft template
• Color the pieces and cut out the template pieces.
• Children can choose to glue the skeletons to a sheet of paper, OR connect the skeletons using brass fasteners to make them poseable

See full instructions and a video on Red Ted Art.

PRINT OUT THESE PAGES TO MAKE THE CRAFT:

CLICK HERE to find some great, kid-friendly recipes for Mexican food.

CLICK HERE to learn more about Dia de los Muertos!

Videos

• Learn more about Dia de los Muertos
• Fantastic Facts about Mexico

Read more about Mexico:

K-2

• My First Generation Family
• Count Your Way Through Mexico
• The Bravest Flute: A Story of Courage in the Mayan Tradition
• Chavela and the Magic Bubble
• Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin
• Green is a Chile Pepper
• Viva Frida
• Meals in Mexico

3-5

• Mexico
• Mexico! 40 Activities to Experience Mexico Past and Present
• Eating Enchiladas
• Josefina: An American Girl Story Collection
• Day of the Dead
• The First Rule of Punk

6-8

• Esperanza Rising
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
• The Story of Mexico: The Mexican Revolution
• Mexican Immigrants: In Their Shoes
• Return to Sender

Check out Ebooks by subject!

• Juvenile ebooks about Mexico

First stop: CANADA! One of our closest neighbors geographically, Canada is a great place to kick off our summer tour around the world!

CLICK to print  ALL  craft and activity pages. 

CLICK TO VIEW VIRTUAL STORY TIME: CANADA

Print this Canadian Flag Coloring Sheet:

Print out this Inuksuk craft—it’s a great way to practice with scissors.

This is a fun cut and paste craft that children can enjoy while they practice their scissor skills and matching skills.

This Inuit themed craft is a fun and interactive way for children to become engaged in Inuit culture by learning about Inukshuks.

An Inukshuk is an Inuit monument made of unworked stones. In the Inuit language, Inukshuk means “in the likeness of a human”. They are used by the Inuit for communication and survival and indicate that “someone was here” – an important message in the remote areas of the arctic region.

Materials:

• something to color with
• scissors
• glue
• paper
• printer

Instructions:

• Print out the craft template
• Color the rocks and cut out the template pieces.
• Children can choose to glue the rocks in the pattern of the template this is a good way for children to practice their matching skills).

or

• Children can use their imagination and glue the rocks onto a blank piece of paper to create their own inukshuk.

Craft from dltk-kids.com

Videos

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDEFYRa7DkU
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emSv0xHmDLs
• Canadian food

Read more about Canada:

K-2

• When We Were Alone
• Count Your Way Through Canada
• Duck, Duck, Moose
• Maple
• Maple Syrup Season
• Sam the Zamboni Man

3-5

• Canada (NF)
• Body Check
• The Curse of Wendigo: An Agate and Buck Adventure
• The Fledgling
• The Hockey Mystery
• A Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family in 1840 (NF)
• The True Story of Trapper Joe’s Left Toe
• Canada (NF)

6-8

• Moose (NF)
• Canada: The Land (NF)
• To Build a Fire
• Jason’s Gold
• Incident at Hawk’s Hill

Check out Ebooks by subject!

• Juvenile ebooks about Canada