Summer Adventure 2026

Creature Quest

June 1 - August 1, 2026

Embark on your Summer Adventure at AC Library!
Activities, reading, and more! Progress through your quest at AC Library and receive a book gift and prize drawing entries!

All ages and abilities are welcome to participate!

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How to Participate

Get a "How to Participate" guide at a AC Library location and map out your own Summer Adventure by setting goals like trying an activity, reading something new, or attending a program.

Share What You Did

Visit your AC Library location for stamps in your quest booklet and one ticket per day
Submit any number of entries through our online submission form: aclibrary.org/summer

8 Stamps = 1 Tote bag while supplies last!

Prizes

Receive a free book with your first activity
Complete 8 activities to receive a free tote bag (while supplies last)
Tickets and online submissions enter you in biweekly prize drawings

Create
Animal Stories and Art

Try an activity or a new book.
Here are some ideas to get you started!

Create an animal-related short story, recording, zine or comic.
Find an animal story from another culture than yours.
Try an art or craft technique that you enjoy, or have wanted to try, in a project inspired by an animal.
Enjoy a story from an animal’s perspective.
Design a map, model, or diorama of your favorite animal’s habitat, or describe your design.
Learn about an artist who was inspired by nature.
Make artwork inspired by patterns, paw prints, or other animal features.
Try a story about a human and animal that have a close friendship.

Create a poem about an animal, let the animal inspire the form of the poem

Observe
Animals Around Us

Try an activity or a new book.
Here are some ideas to get you started!

Record clues that animals have been nearby, such as smells, textures, and sounds.
Read about nature while outdoors.
Spend time around animals. This could be outside, by a window, or even watching a live animal cam. Report what you notice about their behavior.
Choose a story about a person who cares for, studies, trains, or lives closely with animals.
Observe animals in your neighborhood (birds, insects, pets). Record or draw three animals you notice and what they’re doing.
Read about an animal that lives near your home.
Pay attention to small creatures like insects, spiders, or worms. Record three differences you notice compared to larger animals.
Read a story about animals going on a journey, solving a problem, or exploring a new place.

Create a creature observation journal where you record your observations of creatures around you.

Be sure to include:

Name of Creature
Date Observed
Time
Location
Description, (physical, audio, or otherwise)
Behaviors

Learn
About Animal Worlds and Survival

Try an activity or a new book.
Here are some ideas to get you started!

Choose a domestic animal and learn how humans and animals support each other. Share at least two ways that the animal helps people and two ways people care for it.
Read about an animal you’ve never encountered in real life.
Learn about one wild animal that lives in your community and list your five favorite facts about that animal.
Find a story completely set in an animal society.
Identify an animal habitat new to you. Name one animal that lives there and one feature of the habitat that lets it survive.
Try a survival story, either fiction or based on real events.
Learn one new animal name in another language. Consider sign language or another language in your community.
Read about an endangered or threatened animal.