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  • Badges
    • Gardening - Week 1
    • Mystery - Week 2
    • Travel - Week 3
    • History - Week 4
    • Families - Week 5
    • Music - Week 6
    • Heroes - Week 7
    • Animals & Nature - Week 8
    • Food & Drink - Week 9
    • Arts & Crafts - Week 10
  • Instructions
  • Read for Good

Food & Drink Badge

TO ​​​EARN YOUR BADGE, CHOOSE ANY COMBINATION OF ACTIVITIES AND FILL OUT THE BADGE FORM
Online Diversions
Deliciousness ahead!
  • Explore cooking on the library’s Activity Finder
  • Make a "Crafty Paper Picnic"; Miss Kim gives you step-by-step instructions using basic art supplies. YouTube
  • Take “A Seat at the Table: A Journey into Jewish Food,” a free online course from Yivo Institute; free through the end of the year. SIGN UP
  • Catch an episode of “Cooking Together,” daily at 12 PM CT, on DELISH INSTAGRAM
  • Watch an episode of “Cooking with Kids” on PBS
  • Stream a favorite cooking show when you log in to hoopla or Kanopy with your library card The Great British Baking Show Great Courses: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Cooking Great Courses: Cooking with Vegetables ​​ OTHER COOKING SHOWS ​
Offline Adventures
What can you cook up?
  • Try a recipe from a cooking magazine on Flipster
  • Take it outside: Enjoy a meal on your balcony, porch, or patio, or in your yard.
  • Decorate cupcakes, cake, or your favorite dessert; it’s all in the finishing touches.
  • Make a donation to the Vernon Township Food Pantry to help neighbors in need: drop off pantry goods 9 AM–1 PM Monday–Friday, at the township offices, 3050 N. Main St., Buffalo Grove. Most-needed items
Suggested Reading
​Read for fun ~ read for good!
  • Three reading recommendations about Food in just about four minutes: book break
  • Recommended: Books with Bite or Travel for Your Taste buds
  • Cookbooks: cloudLibrary hoopla
  • Cooking magazines: Flipster 
  • Nonfiction e-books and audiobooks about cooking & food: Libby/OverDrive
  • Teen fiction about cooking & food: cloudLibrary hoopla 
  • Teen nonfiction about cooking & food: hoopla
All reading counts! You do not have to read about food or drinks. Listening to audiobooks counts, too, of course.

​​CLAIM YOUR BADGE

At the end of the week, submit your activities and reading minutes. Complete one form for each participant. Deadline for raffle entry: Wednesday, August 5, at 12 PM CDT.
Badge Form

Print a Tracking sheet

Download a printable PDF to help keep track of the badges you've earned and the number of minutes you've read.
Download PDF
This Is Just to Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold


–William Carlos Williams
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  • Badges
    • Gardening - Week 1
    • Mystery - Week 2
    • Travel - Week 3
    • History - Week 4
    • Families - Week 5
    • Music - Week 6
    • Heroes - Week 7
    • Animals & Nature - Week 8
    • Food & Drink - Week 9
    • Arts & Crafts - Week 10
  • Instructions
  • Read for Good