December 2020 - 31 January 2021 - Join and read for your chance to WIN prizes! Visit Kingston Libraries to register!
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1 December 2020 – 31 January 2021
Join and read for your chance to WIN prizes!
Visit Kingston Libraries to register!
FOR KIDS AGED 5 TO 16 YEARSKingston Libraries’ Summer Reading Club
is a FREE competition open for independent
readers aged up to 16 years to join, read
and collect prizes over the summer break.
The theme of the program this year is
Dig Deeper: Read, Discover and Investigate.
This program is a great opportunity
to maintain your skills or boost your
summer reading. explore Kingston Libraries'
collection, DISCOVER our huge range of
e-Books, e-Audiobooks and take part in
some activities and challenges. Sign up
online or visit one of our libraries to join!How to enter
1. Register online, over the phone or ▶ nd prize (all ages)
2
with staff at the library. You can Museums Victoria annual
collect your kit from the library or we household membership
can mail it out to you if necessary. ▶ rd prize (all ages)
3
Go to kingston.vic.gov.au/library/src
Village Family Movie Experience
or call 1300 135 668.
6. If you want to read more you can
2. Borrow items from the collection
keep reading. For every Reading
and start reading.
Record Map you complete you can
3. Each time you finish a book or enter the prize draw again. Simply
read for 1 hour write the title on the collect another Reading Record Map
Reading Record Map provided and from the library or download from
colour in the landmark on the map. our website.
4. Bring your Reading Record Map
into the library to collect mini
rewards after reading 3, 6 and 10
Sign up to
books/hours. the program!
5. Complete the Reading Record Map Enter the fortnightly prize draw
by reading 10 books or for 10 hours. for your chance to WIN book
pack prizes.
Fill in your details on the Reading
Record Map, get your guardian to Each time you borrow books
sign it, and drop it into the entry box place your loans receipt in the
at one of our Kingston branches to entry box. The more times you
go in to the major prize draw to WIN visit the library and borrow, the
one of the following prizes: more chances you have to win.
▶ st prize for ages 11–16
1 Collect a Trading Card each
UE Wonderboom 2 speaker, plus time you visit one of our libraries,
a $300 voucher for Strike Bowling including when you sign up to the
and Holey Moley program, when collecting your
milestone rewards, and borrowing
▶ st prize for ages 5 –10
1
books. There are 10 to collect and
LEGO® set, plus a Platinum
each has a fun fact and a mini-
Merlin Annual Pass for 4 people
challenge for you to do.
– includes a year of entry to
LEGOLAND®, Sea Life Melbourne,
and Otway Fly Treetop AdventuresThings to do
hen you sign up to the
W Each week over
Summer Reading Club you will December and
January Tim will
receive a free tote bag, and post a writing
inside you will discover: challenge for you
to do. This is an
▶ A word search
interactive activity
▶ A crossword puzzle
and an amazing
▶ A special bookmark embedded with opportunity to
seeds – follow the instructions to engage with an
grow daisies in your garden author on a regular basis and get
▶ Story Garden sheet – write a story feedback on your writing. You’ll find
on the card provided and ‘plant’ more details at kingston.vic.gov.au/
it in the garden pot at the library library/src
for everyone to enjoy. It could be
a written story, a picture story or a Photography Challenge
poem, but you only have the front of It’s time to let your artistic side shine.
the card to do it in!
Take a photo using the theme ‘Dig
▶ A Scavenger Hunt challenge – Deeper: read, discover, investigate’ as
can you spot everything on the list? inspiration. Send it to us by email and
▶ A Read, Discover, Investigate you’ll get a bonus entry to the major
25-piece jigsaw puzzle prize draw. Send to library@kingston.
vic.gov.au with your name, library
Online fun! membership number and contact
phone number. Your photo may be
Check out what Kingston Libraries has published or displayed across the
on offer online to keep you busy over City of Kingston and on Kingston
the Summer holidays. social media accounts. Please ensure
that anyone who appears in your
Virtual Story Adventure photo has given permission for you
with Tim Cope to submit the photo to us.
Join author and adventurer Tim Cope
in this weekly online story challenge.
Tim is the author of Tim & Tigon –
a book he wrote after trekking
10,000km from Mongolia to Hungary
with his dog.Write a Book Review Butterfly Craft
Have you read something fun Make colourful butterflies out of paper
or interesting that you’d like to and decorate your room or give to
recommend to others? Submit your someone special. The kit will include
review via our website at kingston. coloured paper with a template, black
vic.gov.au/library/Kids39-Place/ paper and a wooden skewer, plus
Suggested-Reads-and-Reveiws-for- instructions. You will need a stapler
Kids/Submit-a-Book-Review. This task and glue to complete this activity
will also earn you a bonus entry to the at home.
major prize draw.
Fingerprint Kit
Take Home Discover fascinating
facts about fingerprints
Activities and investigate your own.
Kit includes ink pad,
Cress Head chart to record fingerprints
Make your own cute character and and an information sheet.
watch hair sprout from seeds over
the summer. The kit will include a You can register for these
paper cup, cotton wool, seeds, nose/ crafts on our website. We’ll
mouth stickers and wiggly eyes,
let you know when they are
plus instructions.
ready for you to collect from
Clay Dinosaur your preferred Kingston
Mold the air-dry clay to create a small
Libraries branch.
and colourful 3D dinosaur. Kit includes
air-dry clay, cardboard head/tail/feet, Go to kingston.vic.gov.au/
plus instructions. library/src
0–5 year olds
Don’t forget to check out the 1000 Books Before School
program for your own reading program, with a chance to
collect an extra milestone prize during the summer! If you
are not already registered, sign up now. Ask staff for details.Other ideas 4. Place your pebbles
in the bottom half of
to try at home! the bottle so that they
are about 5cms deep.
Garden in a Bottle
This activity is great for upcycling a
5. Place your potting mix over the
pebbles to about 3cms from
soft drink bottle.
the top.
What You Need:
6. Time to plant! Tuck your tiny
2 litre soft drink bottle with lid
▶
plants or cuttings into the soil
(label removed) carefully and sprinkle with extra
Potting mix
▶ soil if you need to cover the roots
Pebbles, gravel or very coarse sand
▶ a bit more. If you are using seeds
sprinkle lightly and cover with a
Tiny plants, cuttings from your
▶
very fine layer of potting mix. You
garden or seeds like microgreens
can even try a combination of a
or even lawn seeds
tiny plant and seeds if you want to
Scissors
▶
(but try not to overdo the seeds if
Water
▶ you do this).
Rubber band
▶
7. Water very gently so the soil is
Small figurines or
▶ moist but not soaked. A spray
natural decorations bottle of water is good for
like interesting bark, this step.
stone or shell
8. Arrange any decorations in your
mini garden.
What to do:
1. Place the rubber band around the 9. Slide the top carefully back on
bottle about 10cms from the base. the bottom of the bottle. If it is a
bit tricky try cutting a few slits in
2. Ask a grown up to make a hole either the top or bottom edges to
next to the rubber band with help them fit together more easily.
a knife. Keep the lid on the top.
3. Cut around the bottle with your 10. Put your mini garden where
scissors using the rubber band as it will get filtered sunlight and
a guide. Now you have a top and somewhere you can admire it!
a bottom! (If it gets too much sun it will
get too hot inside).Conditions of Entry
▶ he Summer Reading
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Club Dig Deeper: read,
discover, investigate is
for children and youth up to age 16
who can read independently.
▶ ou must be a member of Kingston
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Libraries. If you are not a member
we are happy to sign you up.
▶ You do not have to be a resident of
For the first few days it may look a Kingston Council.
bit cloudy in your bottle but then it ▶ The competition opens on
should clear, and droplets will form 1 December 2020 and closes on
on the sides and drip down like rain. 31 January 2021.
If it gets too wet leave the top off for ▶ You can read any book that is at
one to two days to dry out a little. your reading level.
▶
Guardians must sign all completed
Secret Code entry forms/Reading Record Maps.
Design your own secret code and
▶
Major prizes will be drawn at
Kingston Libraries on Wednesday
see if your friends and family can 3 February 2021.
decipher a message. Pick a different ▶ inners will be contacted via
W
symbol, shape or character to phone or email within a week of
represent each letter of the alphabet the draw.
and write a secret message. You ▶ a major prize is not claimed within
If
could even use LEGO® – a different 2 weeks of the draw there will be a
redraw for that prize.
piece representing each letter.
▶
Participants are eligible to win one
major prize only.
Treasure Cake
▶
More than one entry form can be
You will need two basic cakes the submitted by individuals for the
same size (purchased or home major prize draw.
baked), lollies and icing. Cut the Call the library on 1300 135 668 and
center out of one cake and place it speak with library staff if you have
on a plate. Fill the hole with treats any questions.
such as smarties or jelly beans.
Put the second whole cake on
Proudly sponsored by
top. Spread with icing mixture and
decorate with additional lollies or
sprinkles. When you cut into the cake
to serve to your family and friends the
‘treasure’ will be found.1300 135 668
kingston.vic.gov.au/library
TTY 9581 4506
TIS 131 450
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