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🖍️ Library Girl Reading Challenges: June 2025

Last year, just for fun, I started creating monthly "reading challenges" that:


  • focus on authentic reasons for reading (instead of having kids log page numbers, etc), and...

  • couple reading with coloring BECAUSE both reading and coloring are proven stress relievers.


Additionally, hoped they might help teachers and librarians build even stronger reading communities.


This year, I've been reading a bit about the connection between mindfulness and coloring. Specifically, I'm interested in how coloring symmetrical and repeating patterns can help draw us into a state that is similar to meditation. With that in mind, I've decided to approach this year's coloring challenges with designs that focus on patterns - as opposed to themes.


My plan, at this point, is to create 2 different patterns for each month, to share in addition to last year's design. HOWEVER, this month, I went crazy and created 3 new coloring sheets, so... all FOUR coloring sheets are free to download contain the same reading challenges. Here are June's offerings - including last year's!


A collage of three black-and-white printable activity sheets titled “June Reading Challenge,” designed for children. Each sheet includes playful cactus illustrations and a reading challenge list. The left sheet is partially colored, with vibrant pinks, greens, and reds filling in various cacti and objects. The middle sheet features a large, smiling cactus in a pot with small background doodles of other cacti and books, and a checklist of reading prompts like “contains a map” and “features a villain you love.” The right sheet has a diamond-patterned background with the same checklist as the others, left uncolored for children to complete and decorate. All three sheets include a prompt to pick four of the listed challenges and write the titles of the books read. Created by Jennifer LaGarde, with a credit link to librarygirl.net.

UNDER THE HOOD

I've gotten some questions about how I create these. I use a combination of the following tools to create the monthly book challenge (and the book related) coloring sheets I share. Each coloring sheet takes me between 4-10 hours to create. (I'm slow).


  • Canva

  • MS Designer (used for a few images during the first year I created these. However, I no longer use AI for this project).

  • Gimp: GNU Photo Editor

  • My own drawings (created using Procreate on my iPad)




 
 
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