To earn the summer reading patch, earn points!
Daisies: 20 points
Brownies: 35 points
Juniors: 50 points
Cadettes/Seniors/Ambassadors: 75 points
*starred items are timed for junior level and above at 20 minutes per activity to receive points. If you are a superstar Daisy or Brownie reader and you are already reading chapter books, please apply the time rule when calculating your points.
1 point each
- Visit your library's website
- Join the library's summer reading program https://maricopacountyreads.org/
- Read a book to a family member*
- Read a book to a pet*
- Listen to an audiobook*
- Tell a friend about the summer program
- Read outside*
- Read a nonfiction book*
- Recommend one of your favorite books to a friend
- Read a couple of poems
- Read about about an inspirational woman*
- Find out was a Little Free Library is
- Read a book that has won an award*
- Read a book to a sister Girl Scout*
- Read a book to a family members virtually*
- Read a book about another culture*
- Read a book with a historical setting*
5 points each
- Make a list of books you want to read this summer
- Search for those books in the online library catalog
- Find out where a Little Free Library is near you
- Make a bookmark and put it inside the next book you want to read
- Read a magazine or newspaper
- Sign up for a library card
- Read a children's book in another language
10 points each
- Find a cookbook and make one of the recipes
- Illustrate a story you read
- Read a story and then retell it by acting it out
- Write a story and read it to someone
- Check out 10 books at the library (curbside pick up is available for social distancing)
- Complete the Barnes and Noble reading journal and take it to the store for a free book. Recommended: CEO Sylvia Acevedo's book (bottom of page 1). Barnes and Noble Summer Reading Program.
To earn your patch, keep track of the books you read (and time if you are junior level and above). Turn in your activity log to pima.neighborhood@gmail.com (please send in titles of books listed in the 1-point category and please share any illustrations or stories that you create!)