Teen Summer Reading 2020

This week we're sharing three ways to remember your summer: 
 

 1. APL Maker Challenge: Make Your Arlington Quarantine Time Capsule with our instructions! Bury it or hold on to it for the future you! It could be a family or an individual project.  

2. Documenting Your Days: Share a poem, a photograph, a drawing, etc., a journal entry, an interview with a family member or friend about being in Arlington at this time. 

3. Draw a map about your time in quarantine (inspired by this article)

Random info about time capsules: 

• What is a time capsule?  A time capsule is a container that holds present day items, such as photos, newspapers (if you still receive those,) letters and more. It's typically hidden away for your future self or someone of your choosing to open. This is perfect as a gift to yourself or a gift for your child for future years.

• The International Time Capsule Society estimates there are between 10,000 and 15,000 time capsules worldwide.
• The United States' oldest known time capsule was the work of none other than Samuel Adams and Paul Revere! It was unsealed in 2015 and contained a treasure trove of artifacts! 

APL Maker Challenge: Download our step-by-step directions to make your own pet fortress.
Let us know how it turns out! 

Or:  Code Yourself a Virtual Pet  

Scratch   
Find a project to remix or create your own unique virtual pet and share it with the Scratch community.

 Hour of Code Virtual Pet 

Use the Python programming language to make a pet that you can feed and play with! No micro:bit required.

Or: Sew Yourself a Pet 

How to Sew Cute Plush Animals  

Everything you need to know to create a plush animal with step-by-step instructions. You’ll make a sweet little pet and learn basic sewing skills while you’re at it.

We'd love to see what you make. If you would like to share your project with our Quaranzine and earn a raffle ticket towards a reader raffle, click here.

APL Maker Challenge: Download our step by step directions to make your own mini hockey rink. 

Share your results with us! 

Or:  

Create a new sport  

Think mashups—like Frisbee golf or Quidditch or come up with something completely new.

Examples:
Chess boxing:
Chess boxing, or chessboxing, is a hybrid that combines two traditional pastimes: chess, a cerebral board game, and boxing, a physical sport. The competitors fight in alternating rounds of chess and boxing. (From Wikipedia)
Bossaball:
 A mix of volleyball, soccer, gymnastics, capoeira and extreme trampolining. Developed between 2003 and 2005 by Filip Eyckmans, Bossaball is played on an inflatable court that takes less than 45 minutes to set up. 

Or: 

Show Us What You’re Playing 

Document the sports, games, movement activities, etc. that you’re doing to stay active.
Send us a photo or a drawing of what you’ve been playing!

We'd love to see what you make. If you would like to share your project with our Quaranzine and earn a raffle ticket towards a reader raffle, click here.

Wirework is an ancient folk art form dating back to the 2nd Dynasty in Egypt and to the Bronze and Iron Ages in Europe. By the 1920s, Alexander Calder and Ruth Asawa, among others, were famous artists who used the medium of wire sculpture. 

Or:
Share whatever art you’ve been making with us.

We'd love to see what you make. If you would like to share your project with our Quaranzine and earn a raffle ticket towards a reader raffle, click here.

Sit back and enjoy a concert from the comfort of your couch. Make it special with a delicious treat in a fancy container that you’ve made yourself.

And/Or:  

Make a sheet music envelope with these step-by-step instructions.  
You’ll make someone’s day if you send them a letter in one of these super cool envelopes. And they’re easy to make!
 
And/Or: 

Song Structure Cheat Sheet 
Learn the basics of song structure  

We'd love to see what you make. If you would like to share your project with our Quaranzine and earn a raffle ticket towards a reader raffle, click here.

Or:   

Share a memory from a favorite vacation you’ve taken 

Share a postcard, a photo, a drawing, a poem, a song or anything that was inspired by your past travels.

 Or:  

Describe your plans for a dream vacation to anywhere in the world that you’ll take (or not) someday. 

Where would you go? Who would you go with? What would you do? Send us a postcard or an itinerary of your dream vacation! 

We'd love to see what you make. If you would like to share your project with our Quaranzine and earn a raffle ticket towards a reader raffle, click here.