Try It!

Make a paper flowers out of coffee filters and droppers with liquid water colors!

Supplies: jars or cups, droppers or pipettes, liquid water colors, coffee filters, scissors, wax paper (to protect the surface you’re working on)

Directions: fill the jars with different water colors and add water to make a solution. Cut out flower shape in coffee filter paper. Use droppers to apply droplets to your coffee filter paper. Once you’ve colored the flower, let it dry before hanging in the window. (Project from High Prairie Library)

Kids at Monument Library enjoyed a Marshmallow Build STEM program by figuring out how to keep their structures from crashing. Kids used toothpicks, straws, and spaghetti!

PPLD Kids built incredible towers, bridges, and mazes! We designed our own marble mazes with paper plates. Next, using only 20 binder clips, 20 paper clips and 30 tongue depressors, we tested our mettle building the tallest tower and the strongest bridge. Our tallest tower was 13 inches and our strongest bridge held 16 books! This is definitely something you’ll want to try at home. Do you think you can beat Palmer Lake Library’s record?

Build a Bird A Better World: Get crafty with stuff around the house to build a bird home or feeder for your back yard. Check out these cool creations made by High Prairie Library kids.

On the first Wednesday of every month, you can find "Messy Art" happening at the Manitou Springs Library. Messy Art is designed to provide children opportunities to experience open-ended, creative exploration of art away from home. We encourage children to get messy and focus on the process of creation rather than the final product. Please contact Manitou Springs Library for more information.

We are enjoying all the creative submissions from our Summer Adventurers. Check out Ember's Taco Stand.

"Here is a picture of the Taco Stand that I built with Legos. (My mom helped, too!)
My favorite thing about the Taco Stand is the jail cells for bad guys and a disco floor!"

Ember completed this as part of his Summer Adventure "Make" badge for ages 8-11.

Other "Make" activity options for 8-11 include:

1. Attend a PPLD 7UP Program at your library.

2. Make a pet rock. Tell us what you named it!

3. Make or bake something to eat. What did you make?

4. If you are 9 or older, visit a Makerspace with an adult. If you are under 9, attend any library program

where you get to make something! Find library

5. Paint or draw a picture.

6. Build something with cardboard, Legos, or straws. Optional: Send a picture to

summeradventure@ppld.org for us to post on Facebook.

7. Make a gift for a friend.

8. Make your own journal or book.

9. Make a musical instrument. Click here for some ideas.

10. Make something of your own choosing with whatever materials you wish! Tell us about it.

Login to https://ppld.beanstack.org to see more Make challenges for other age groups. Keep adventuring! And, don't forget we also offer weekly Lego Build programs at our libraries, another opportunity for kids to complete their "Make" badges. Check our program calendar.