Showing posts with label Holiday activities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holiday activities. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

The Little, Big and Even Bigger Read 2024


Upper Hutt Libraries are very excited to be joining once again with Hutt City Libraries to offer an amazing summer reading challenge to encourage tamariki to get excited about reading this summer, have fun playing, and be in to win cool prizes!

For more information about The Little, Big and Even Bigger Read 2024 click HERE

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Write Like an Author School Holiday Workshop


Where:  Raroa Intermediate, 37 Haumia Street, Johnsonville
When: 3 October - 5 October 2023
Register HERE limited spaces available


Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Sally Rippin Holiday Program - Billie B Brown

Image taken from sallyrippin.com

Author Sally Rippin has launched a FREE Holiday Program. If you love Billie B Brown then head over HERE now for Billie B Brown activities and other fun. If you want to know which Billie B Brown books will be featured, and when, check out the book schedule HERE

Remember to make sure it's OK with mum, dad or another grown up before you to sign up to anything online.


Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Now Even More Holiday Boredom Busters



Feeling a bit bored this school holidays?


You might want to try out some of these links:

Fun, games and videos with Timmy Failure at the Timmy Failure website.

Join Ava Anne Appleton for a word search, do some colouring in or make a bookmark at Ava Anne Appleton's website.

Find games and more fun stuff with Tom Gates at the Tom Gates website.
Download Alice-Miranda colouring in pages from the authors website.

And if you're still bored after looking at all those websites take a look at the earlier Boredom Buster blog posts HERE to check out the changes since last time you visited them.






Monday, July 22, 2013

Monster Bookmarks & More - Boredom Busters

Image from HERE

More Monster bookmarks

You can adapt the monster bookmarks featured in the Boredom Buster from last school holidays to make book marks that look like these:


Image from HERE


Animal bookmarks

You could make animal bookmarks like these:

You can print out a template for the eyes and ears etc. HERE


Image from HERE



Bunny bookmarks

Or try some bunny bookmarks like this:



Image from HERE



Origami bookmarks

You can also try making origami bookmarks (instructions HERE) - including this one adapted to look like The Angry Bird.



Image from HERE



Character bookmarks

Or make origami bookmarks and then draw your own book characters and colour them yourself.  


These Pirate and Witch bookmarks have templates and a How To video HERE


Hope you have lots of fun making your own bookmarks, see you next term.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Even More Holiday Boredom Busters

Feeling a bit bored these school holidays?

If you're at a loose end and can't think of anything fun to do over the holidays you might want to try some of these links out:

Make your own Captain Underpants Comic 
Here you can make your own Captain Underpants Comic.

Professor Poopypants' Name Change-O-Chart  Here you can find out your silly name, and after you've done that you can find out your friends silly names too.

Do you have what it takes to Save the Dragons in Geronimo Stilton's Kingdom of Fantasy? 
Take the quiz and find out.

Or you could visit the online Dear Dumb Diary and Make your own Diary.

I found all of the above at Scholastic's The Stacks for Kids where there are links to all sorts of other fun stuff too - like Goosebumps!

Here are some fun Horrible Histories games and other fun Horrible stuff too.

Here you will find some Billie B Brown Boredom Busters.


AND if you haven't already seen them check out the other Boredom Buster posts on the library blog too.