Weekly Activity: June 26, 2023
Friends Forever

Paper Bag Puppets
(Early Literacy)

Make a friend! You can use various mediums to decorate the sack. Build your perfect friend using stickers, jewels, yarn, eyes, dot markers, and crayons.

Friendship Bracelets
(Elementary, Middle Grades, Teens)

Materials

• Clipboard
• Safety pins or tape
• Embroidery floss in assorted colors (3–6 stands of thirty inches per bracelet) or lightweight yarn
• Scissors

Beginner Braided Friendship Bracelet Instructions

1. Learn how by starting with three strands of yarn.
2. Make an overhand knot with all the strands.
3. Separate the threads into a left, middle, and a right.
4. Cross the right section over the middle section.
5. Cross the left section over the new middle section.
6. Continue the braid, alternating right and left sides.

When you get to the end, tie off in a knot like the one you used to start with. Leave the threads long enough to tie the bracelet on your friend’s wrist!

Advanced Classic Friendship Bracelet
(Elementary, Middle Grades, Teens)

Steps

1. Begin the bracelet by taking your cut strands of embroidery floss or yarn and tying an overhand knot in one end, so they are all together.
   
   Tape to a tabletop or your pants or a clipboard.
2. Braid three inches down from this knot. Make another overhand knot at the bottom of the braid.
3. Now you are ready to begin the knotting main portion of the bracelet.
4. Reclip the end right above the knot onto the clipboard. Flatten the ends out a little. So they are in order, right to left.
5. Once they're in order, grab the first two strands. The strand farthest to the left is going to create your first row. You'll be knotting it around the other strands of floss/yarn to achieve this.
   
   Take the first strand, and pass it over the second strand, and then behind and through the loop. It is important you knot OVER the second strand.
6. Now hold the second strand taut, and pull the first strand up and towards the large knot. Pull until you meet resistance, but not any harder! This will create a small knot on the second strand.
7. Make another knot by tying the first strand around the second strand again - just repeat what you did before!
8. Continue moving across to the right, using the first strand to create two knots on each strand of floss/yarn in the bracelet.
9. Once you've knotted all the way across to the right and reached the last strand of floss/yarn, begin again using the first strand on the left. Make sure you're making TWO knots on each strand.
10. Keep going until you have 3-4 inches of knotting done.
11. Make an overhand knot with all the strands, and then braid another few inches down, to match the beginning of the bracelet. Tie a final overhand knot, and you’re done!

Contact a Friend
(All Ages)

Your challenge is to CALL a friend for a good, long conversation, no texting!

Individual Summer Reads Tournament
(All Ages)

Use your notes to track your summer reading and decide which book you liked best.

1. Read 8 books.
2. List the eight book titles.
3. Divide the eight titles into four groups of two books and choose which book you liked best from each of the four groups.
4. Divide the four titles into two groups of two books and choose which book you liked best from each of the two groups.
5. You are down to two books. Choose the one you liked best. It is your favorite read of summer 2023!