Color Our World – Summer Reading 2025 – All Ages Welcome
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