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Color Our World – Summer Reading 2025 – All Ages Welcome

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Color Our World – Summer Reading 2025 

All Ages Welcome! 

Join our 2025 Summer Reading Program and track your reading to earn prizes and enter our Grand Prize Drawing! Open to babies, kids, teens, and adults. 

Visit any Santa Fe Public Library location to get started or register online at santafelibrary.beanstack.com!

Check our online calendar for special summer programs and events at santafelibrarycalendar.com

Key Dates 

  • Registration Begins: May 17 (pick up your tote bag!) 
  • Prize Pickup Starts: June 2 
  • Grand Prize Drawing: July 23 (Winners are announced at the Summer Reading Party on July 26, attendance not required to win). 

How It Works- Children (Ages 0-12)

Register at the library or online at santafelibrary.beanstack.com

  • Pick up your free tote bag
  • Track every 20 minutes of reading, or a library visit
  • Earn prizes at 1, 5, 10, 15 & 20 hours, collect a “brag tag” or sticker with every milestone
  • At 10 and 20 hours win a free book
  • Grand prize entry at 10, 15, and 20-hour milestones
  • Use a paper log (available at the library) or sign up on Beanstack to track digitally
  • Complete the challenge to win a book and a Reading Medal
  • All reading counts—any book, language, or format (even audiobooks!)

This year’s amazing prizes include:

  • Family memberships to local favorites, the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, Children’s Museum, and Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
  • A Dion’s Pizza Party
  • Gift cards and supplies from Artisan Santa Fe, Doodlet’s, FroGurt Frozen Yogurt, Mizou’s Boba Tea Spot, and Toyopolis
  • Scooters, Kids’ Insta Print Cameras, 3-D Doodle Pens, and Painting Kits
  • Activity-based prizes like a Kiwi Crate Gift Cards, LiggettVille Adventure Center, The Alley Bowling Passes, and MORE!

How It Works – Teens & Adults (Ages 13+)

Register at the library or online at santafelibrary.beanstack.com

  • Pick up your free starter kit: mini canvas, watercolor tray, and tote bag
  • Read 5 books and complete 4 creative or community activities to finish the challenge
  • Track your progress on paper or digitally with Beanstack
  • Earn raffle tickets as you go—choose which prize drawings to enter
  • Complete the challenge to win a book or journal and enter the Grand Prize Drawings!

Choose which Prize Drawings to Enter: 

  • $50 Gift Certificate to The Ark Bookstore
  • One-Year Membership to the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
  • Turquoise Teapot & Cat Café Party Package
  • Baxendale Guitars Private Tour & Demonstration (One-hour experience for up to 4 people with renowned custom guitar maker Scott Baxendale)

Thank you, Summer Reading Program Partners and Sponsors!

AMP Concerts

Artisan Santa Fe

Baxendale Guitars

Dion’s

Doodlet’s Toy Store

Eastern New Mexico University

Friends of the Santa Fe Library

Frogurt Self-Serve Frozen Yogurt

Genoveva Chavez Community Center

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

International Folk Art Market

LiggettVille Adventure Center Santa Fe

Mizu’s Boba Tea Spot

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

Museum of International Folk Art

New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies

Queen Bee Music Association

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

Santa Fe Bug & Reptile Museum

Santa Fe Children’s Museum

Santa Fe International Literary Festival

STEAM Access NM

Teatro Paraguas

The Alley

The Ark Bookstore

Toyopolis

Turquoise Teapot & Cat Café

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Color Our World – A Summer Reading Celebration

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COLOR OUR WORLD
COLOREA NUESTRO MUNDO

A SUMMER READING CELEBRATION WITH THE CHILDREN’S THEATRE FESTIVAL
UNA CELEBRACIÓN DE LECTURA DE VERANO CON EL FESTIVAL DE TEATRO INFANTIL

May 17, 2025, 1-4 pm | Southside Library | 6599 Jaguar Dr. Santa Fe,NM
1:00-3:00 pm Activities, Music, and Crafts
3:00- 4:00 pm Children’s Theatre Performances

17 de mayo de 2025, 1-4 pm | Biblioteca Southside | 6599 Jaguar Dr. Santa Fe,NM
1:00-3:00 pm Actividades, música y manualidades
3:00-4:00 pm Obras de teatro infantiles

Kick off Summer Reading with Santa Fe Public Library and the Children’s Theatre Festival. A fun-filled family extravaganza featuring live theatre and musical performances, arts & crafts, face painting, fairy hair and more! Register for Santa Fe Public Library’s FREE Summer Reading Program and get a free tote bag that you can decorate at the event!

Empieza el verano leyendo con la Biblioteca Pública de Santa Fe y el Festival de Teatro Infantil. ¡Un espectáculo familiar lleno de diversión con obras de teatro y música en vivo, manualidades, pintacaritas, peinados mágicos y mucho más! Inscríbete en el programa gratuito de lectura de verano de la Biblioteca Pública de Santa Fe y recibe una bolsa GRATIS para decorar en el evento.

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  • Main Library

    145 Washington Avenue
    (505) 955-6781

    library@santafenm.gov

  • Oliver La Farge Branch

    1730 Llano Street
    (505) 955-4862

  • Southside Branch

    6599 Jaguar Drive
    (505) 955-2820