This year’s Summer Reading Challenge is all about engaging with nature and the great outdoors!
This activity sheet enables you to keep a record of the books you’re enjoying together and will help to spark conversations around reading with family and friends.
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Download our activity pack for children taking part in the Summer Reading Challenge 2025, including word puzzles and crossword, a poetry challenge using sensory words in nature, plus a colours in nature scavenger hunt!
This download also includes an answer sheet.
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Our friends at RNIB have come up with some brilliant inclusive activity ideas for libraries as part of Story Garden!
These suggestions are for activities that children with vision impairment and sighted children can participate in together, including a nature art activity, a sensory treasure… read more
Print these activity sheets for children taking part in the Summer Reading Challenge and get them to colour-in their favourite Story Garden characters!
Illustrations by Dapo Adeola . All © The Reading Agency 2025.
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Children taking part in the Summer Reading Challenge can colour in this bookmark and fill it out to recommend a book to their friends.
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Children can choose a character and use these bookmarks to review their Summer Reading Challenge reads!
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Librarians can download these themed name tag templates for children to use for the Summer Reading Challenge 2025 – all characters included!
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This activity sheet pairs with the Story Garden treasure hunt character cards. Libraries can download this sheet by clicking on the link below.
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Libraries can download these printable treasure hunt character cards to use in Summer Reading Challenge activities!
A matching activity sheet for children is available via the link below.
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A fascinating journey into the world of bridges, this large-format book is perfect for any budding young architect. From striking modern marvels like the Golden Gate Bridge and the Millau Viaduct to historic stone arches like the Ponte Vecchio, discover how these ingenious structures shorten… read more
Adorable duo, Tiger and Mei, are back! In this heart-warming tale of friendship, responsibility and courage, Mei and her exuberant friend Tiger eagerly try to help make tea, but their efforts lead to broken tools and panic! Fearing being scolded, they run away, but Mei soon realises the… read more
Get your readers talking zombies and romance with Dead Real by Poppy T. Perry with these reading group notes.
‘Heartstopper meets Shaun of the Dead’ – Sarah Broadley
Nora Inkwell is totally, completely, absolutely going to tell her best friend and fellow horror movie superfan, Ruby, that… read more