Activities

Looking for a low-cost, passive library program that brings your community together? This simple collaborative art activity encourages your library kids and adults to create unique trading cards together. Once finished, you can use these custom, community-made cards as prizes for your reading program milestones or rewards for participating in special library events.

During the night, some of our Moth Eggs got misplaced! Find them all to receive a reward!

Magical creatures have been trapped by an Evil Wizard and you are tasked with saving them. Find the matching crystals to free them.

Heal sick creatures with magical potions with this fun activity.

Running a tournament, where participants can play against each other and earn prize cards, can be a great way to make the program more interactive and social. Whether you choose to have scheduled a monthly chill get together or plan a party or large event for the Reading Dragons, a tournament can be a fun way to facilitate interaction.

Printable paper doll for your library kids.

An activity that shares what the dragons did on their summer vacation and invites the children to share their own vacation stories.

This is a new sprout (variation) on the Reading Dragons tree carefully tended and nurtured by Sarah Dempster of the Concord Free Public Library.

Here are several collections of picture books and chapter books featuring Dragons.

Reward kids with a Waldo card for finding something you've hidden at the library.

Our library created a color by number activity sheet based on the child dragon design.

We are heading into summer and summer reading. The Reading Dragons is collaborating with the iRead Summer Reading Program and the magical artist Carey Pietsch to bring a special bite size edition of the Reading Dragons to you!

These cards have uncolored line art that kids can decorate to make a unique set of cards just for them.

One of our favorite activities is running a coloring contest where kids can design the next card we make for the Reading Dragons.

Download the deck box craft for a library program.