2021 School Age Summer Events
CSLP Theme: Tails and Tales (Animals)
Week 1: Pets
Books:
What’s Your Favorite Animal? By Eric Carle & Friends
Caring for Your Lion by Tammi Sauer
Pet Records: The Biggest, Smallest, Smartest, Cutest, Weirdest, and Most Popular Pets on the Planet by Julie Beer
Take Home Activity Packet
What’s Your Favorite Animal?
Where Does YFA Live? / What Does YFA Like to Eat?
Write a Tale about Your Favorite Animal
I Spy Dogs (Paper Trail Design)
I Spy Cats (Paper Trail Design)
Week 2: Zoo Animals
Books
There’s a Giraffe In My Soup by Ross Burach*
What Do You Do If You Work at the Zoo? By Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
Creature Features: 25 Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page*
Yaks Yak: Animal Word Pairs by Linda Sue Park
Take Home Activity Packet
There’s a Giraffe In My Soup Coloring Page
There’s a Giraffe In My Soup Memory Game (2 pages)
Spiral Snake
Draw a Baby Animal
Week 3: Polar Animals
Books
Penguin Problems by Jory John
Poles Apart by Jeanne Willis
Selections from Ice! Poems about Polar Life by Douglas Florian
“The Ballpoint Penguins” from Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and “The Penguinchworms” from I’ve Lost My Hippopotamus both by Jack Prelutsky
Take Home Activity Packet
Draw a Penguin
How to Draw a Polar Bear
How to Draw a Walrus
Polar Bear Origami
Penguin Parent & Child Origami
Week 4: Jungle Animals
Books
What Does An Anteater Eat? By Ross Collins
The Secret Life of a Tiger by Przemysław Wechterowicz
An Ambush of Tigers by Betsy R. Rosenthal
Take Home Activity Packet
Tiger Drawing Activity
Tiger Origami
Make Your Own Anteater Puppet (https://youtu.be/tPEbrigztRg)
Paper Snowflake (2 pages)
Week 5: African Animals
Books
Giraffe Problems by Jory John*
Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion by Alex T. Smith
The Truth About Hippos by Maxwell Eaton III*
African Acrostics by Avis Harley
A Curious Menagerie by Carin Berger*
Take Home Activity Packet
Animal Imagination
Problem Solved!
Truth about Hippos Coloring Page
Flamingo & Gorilla Origami
Acrostic Template
Week 6: Australian Animals
Books
Over in Australia: Amazing Animals Down Under by Marianne Berkes
Don’t Call Me a Bear! by Aaron Blabey
Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French
A Tower of Giraffes: Animals in Groups by Anna Wright
Take Home Activity Packet
Aboriginal Dot Painting (3 pages)
Platypus Bookmark (2 pages)
Week 7: Forest Animals
Books
Bruce’s Big Storm by Ryan T. Higgins*
Unstoppable by Adam Rex
Be Quiet! By Ryan T. Higgins*
“Forest Orchestra” from Boom! Bellow! Bleat! Animal Poems for Two or More Voices by Georgia Heard
“Proposal” and “Waiting for Deer” from Forest Has a Song by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater*
“Biography of a Beaver,” “Nobody’s Pet,” and “Chipmunks, Inc.” from A Whiff of Pine, A Hint of Skunk: a Forest of Poems by Deborah Ruddell
Take Home Activity Packet
Origami Bear
Origami Jumping Frog
Hedgehog (2 pages)
Bruce Coloring Page
Week 8: Farm Animals
Books
Duck on a Tractor by David Shannon
The Farmer’s Away! Baa! Neigh! by Anne Vittur Kennedy
Take Home Activity Packet
I Spy on the Farm
Origami Horse Face
Line & Pattern Rooster (2 pages)
How to Draw a Hen