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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Care
About Animals and Each Other

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

Do one thing that helps animals or their habitats, like picking up trash or refilling a bird bath or feeder.
Read about an extinct or endangered animal.
Go outside and relax or meditate where you can hear animal sounds.
Learn about how animals communicate or about animal body language.
Make a cozy space for an animal, yourself, or someone else to rest.
Learn about wildlife rehabilitation, conservation, or rescue.
Share kindness by helping a person or animal, and reflect on it in writing, audio, or a drawing.
Find a story about caring for someone or a community.

Create a pledge by writing a promise about how you will care for animals, your community, and the environment

multiple hand drawn animals or creatures hiding behind banners that say I promise to care for animals, my community, and the environment.

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.