When school is out, that doesn’t mean learning has to stop! Let the kids show off the reading skills they learned throughout the school year with a fun summer reading program! If the incentives these programs offer aren’t enough to get them into bookworm mode, maybe the fun accessories below will!
- Barnes & Noble – Kids earn free books
- Scholastic – It’s an entire social network of kid readers
- Public Library – Check your public library for their current programs
- Half Price Books – Score a free gift card when you rack up the minutes of reading
- Chuck E. Cheese’s – Get tokens as rewards
- H-E-Buddy – H-E-B Summer Reading is sponsored by the grocery store. Read 10 books, get a prize
- Camp Book It! – Personal Pan Pizza coming your way for reading
- Showcase Cinemas Bookworm Wednesdays – Show a book, get a free kids’ movie ticket
- Junie B Jones Reading Club – FREE starter kit with a book, activity sheets, and membership card
- Amazon: Suggested titles for summer reading of all ages
Plus, check out these fun items your kids might enjoy to get them more excited about reading this summer!
- Summer Reading Logs & Journals – fun way to log their reading and make it more personal
- Cool Clip-On Reading Lights – great for road trips or “just one more chapter” kids
- Pop-Up Tents – make a reading tent filled with fun blankets, pillows & stuffed animals – just for reading time
- Kids’ Dictionary – for the kids that don’t just LIKE to read, they LOVE it
- Bucket-List Scratch-Off – a fun way to keep track & mark off the best books
- The Little Book Holder – so cute and functional
- Make Your Own Bookmark Kits – what a fun way to kick off a summer of reading
- This Book Belongs To Stamps: and “from the library of” stamps – with kid designs
- Kindle for Kids: get them their own device and load it with fun books
- Headphones: for the audiobooks – to keep them listening
HAPPY READING!
Do you know of a program that Sharky missed? Leave it in the comments to share with other readers!
