Free Kids Summer Reading Rewards
As long as you count the backs of cereal boxes, I’m quite the voracious reader. In fact, if your children are anything like me, you may be interested to see this list that Freebies 4 Mom put together of rewards that kids can receive this summer in exchange for doing a little reading. I’ve already written about the Barnes & Noble offer, but the rest should be new to most of us Hiffers.
Scholastic Summer Challenge – Earn points by reading and playing games on their site and in exchange kids can use the points for prizes and sweepstakes entries.
Half-Price Books Feed Your Brain – From June 1-July 31, for every week kids 12 and under read at least 15 minutes, they earn a $3 Half-Price Books gift card. That’s roughly, what, 8 weeks for $32 total? Not bad. I’ve never heard of this place, but apparently they have stores in over a dozen states.
Pottery Barn Book Club – This is actually an ongoing program where they hold a storytime on Tuesdays from 11 to 11:30 am. Once your kid attends 5 sessions and has their booklet stamped, they get a reward. I’m not sure what it actually is (F4M is reporting it’s a $10 off coupon), but this is the perfect way to prepare your child for all the future oil-change stamp cards they’ll need to keep track of later in life.
TD Bank Summer Reading – This is a pretty limited freebie location-wise since the only places with TD banks are on the East coast, but it’s worth posting. If your child reads ten books, then they get $10! Where in the world was this deal when I was a kid?
Borders Reading Challenge – Once children 12 and under read eight books, they good to choose a $4.99 Reading Challenge item, which their flier states is a savings of 50%. So…the items normally cost $10+ and your kid gets them for $5? I gotta say, the wording on their advertisement is a little weak. You’d expect better grammar from a bookstore.
If you know of any more summer reading rewards, let us know about it in the comments!
FYI–check your local library too! Ours has “Read your way to the ballpark.” It has a sheet that lookes like the Candyland gameboard. There are prizes along the way and the final book gets you a ticket to the Arizona Diamondbacks game! (You get to read the books of your choice too, not a rquired reading list.)
Here’s another to check out, Goob. Pizza Hut’s Book It!
http://www.bookitprogram.com/enrollment/
It is one to watch for later…the programs are not for the summer.
neat! my daughter will love this
Thanks so much! I grabbed this for my own blog, giving credit to you as well as to Freebies 4 Mom, of course!
The best summer reading program of all is simply taking your children to the library on a regular basis. Making it a habit and something that they look forward to encourages a love of reading as much as anything I know.
If you can find a half price books, you should go – it’s an awesome chain!
I’m glad you found my list useful, thanks for sharing it with your readers!
-Heather
Freebies4Mom.com
I love freebies and summer reading programs. I’ve loved libraries (free) since I was a kid and I took home great piles of them every week. May I suggest that if you need to buy (don’t want take a borrowed book to the beach or you like to write in them or dog-ear the corners) a book this summer that you consider buying a book from a local independent bookstore. I’d hate to lose all our local bookstores because people only shop online. The best service is found at your local bookstore, too.
Chuck E. Cheese has a reading calendar that will give each child who completes it an additional 10 tokens. You have to purchase food at the same time as getting the free tokens. They also have other rewards calendars – like for grades, brushing teeth, potty training, etc.