Activities for Teens: Week 3

Mermaid Sugar Scrub

Program Description

Make your own natural body scrub with a mermaid twist! Perfect for dry skin from all that time in the summer sun. Put it in a clean glass jar and then add a ribbon for a gift!

Materials:

• Granulated sugar
• Fractionated coconut oil
• Containers
• Essential oils (optional)
• Soap colorant or food coloring (optional)
• Sugar sprinkles (optional)

Instructions:

1. Mix together the coconut oil and the granulated sugar. A good ratio to begin with is 4 parts sugar to one part oil, but you can add more oil or more sugar to get the consistency that you like.
2. If using, add in a couple of drops of food coloring and/or sugar sprinkles, and mix well.
3. Once everything has been mixed, add a few drops of essential oils, if desired.

Percy Jackson Book Club

Read a Percy Jackson Book and have a Percy Jackson Party!

Riordan, Rick. Percy Jackson and the Olympians (series), 2005–2009. (DB 63443, DB 64659, DB 65245, DB 67158, DB 69015, BR 20213, BR 20243, BR 20285, BR 21573, BR 21612)

Choose a Greek god/goddess name and come dressed as that character (e.g., Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Ares, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, Hermes, Artemis, Hephaestus, Demeter, Dionysus). Percy’s Mother had a thing for blue food, so have blueberries, blue corn tortilla chips, blue Gatorade, blue jelly beans, blue fruit roll-ups, and blue yogurt. 

Take a picture and send it in!

Seven Wonders of Your World: Challenges + Journal

Write about some of these seven items in a journal. Keep writing after the summer’s over, make it a habit!

• Who are the 7 most important people in your world?
• What are 7 things that are most important to you?
• Extra: You can also make a collage out of pictures in a magazine and talk about them with your family. 
• List 7 different careers, and then arrange them, in order of what you would like to try.
• Name and try to eat 7 new types of vegetables and fruits this week. What was new to you? What did you like? Were you surprised?
• Name 7 different types of pets, starting with your own, and what do you like about your pets?  If you run out of ideas, use your imagination and make some up! (A gerbil that talks!)
• Make a goal to read 7 new books when school starts. Write a review about them as you do and send them in to be included on our website!