Completed: Winter Reading Challenge 2024-2025: Books & Prizes!

Family Winter Reading: read together 55 days between 12/2/24 - 3/1/25 ✅ Prize: a new family game We’ve had lots of fun playing this game. It’s like Taboo but you can only use one syllable words to get your team to guess the clue words. And if the clue-giver makes a mistake, the opposing team … Continue reading Completed: Winter Reading Challenge 2024-2025: Books & Prizes!

Overlook Trail – Hidden Cave Trail – Petroglyph Trail – Hike

Hike #3 in 2025 We’ve tried this hike before, but it was too hot last time and we dubbed it a winter activity. Obvi had to print out Junior Ranger workbooks! One of my New Year’s resolutions was to go for at least one hike per month. Another goal was to spend time with “church … Continue reading Overlook Trail – Hidden Cave Trail – Petroglyph Trail – Hike

Countdown to Christmas Picture Books

We have an epic Christmas Picture Book collection. It all started when we lost everything in the Paradise Camp Fire (2018) and at first I had a good excuse to replace the books we had lost. Now I’m just a book hoarder! I find them at thrift stores. The good deals are too hard to … Continue reading Countdown to Christmas Picture Books

Scholastic Winter Reading Challenge 2023

12/2024 I started this post last December (2023). We never finished the challenge so I forgot about posting it. Better late than never. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 12/2023 You can visit http://www.scholastic.com to print the free winter reading challenge from Scholastic. Here’s what we read towards completing this challenge (we did a little double dipping between this challenge … Continue reading Scholastic Winter Reading Challenge 2023

Winter Reading Challenge 2024-2025

We don’t live in Idaho anymore, but I just love the Idaho Falls library reading challenges! The library itself is really beautiful and has an indoor Koi pond. Perhaps the ambience adds to the creativity of the librarians there. Obviously, we can’t get the prizes from the library and we can’t do all of the … Continue reading Winter Reading Challenge 2024-2025