Summer holidays are finally here which gives us lots of time for reading. We have joined the library’s summer reading challenge which involves a child reading and summarising three or more books of their choice but my daughter wanted to keep a record of all the books that we read over the summer. We are including both books that she reads to us and books that we read to her.
Inspired by The Magic Faraway Tree we created a summer reading tree.
My daughter has written the name of each book that we have read on a leaf but she also wanted to draw pictures of the characters in the stories we have read and stick them onto the tree.
The Jolly Postman has parked his bicycle at the bottom of the tree and tied a parcel to the rope that Moonface from The Enchanted Wood has let down from the top.
Hexe Lily is doing her homework.
Martha and her Bunny Brothers are sitting on a branch.
Iris and a sea monkey have left Oliver and the Seawigs in Deepwater Bay and have managed to climb up the tree.
My daughter had a wonderful time drawing the characters for the tree and is eager to read and draw more. We will post a picture of our tree at the end of the summer holidays. This is what the top currently looks like.
How are you recording the books that you and your your child read over the holidays? Are you taking part in a summer reading challenge like this one in the UK?
What a great idea! So creative and rewarding to see all the books you’ve read as part of the summer reading challenge! Look forward to seeing it finished in Sept! x
It’s a fun way to keep a record of all the books that we have read, we’ve added Princess Ruby’s treehouse today.
this is such a clever yet fun idea!!! now to find some brown paper 🙂 thanks for sharing with #readwithme
This was card but brown paper would also have been a great idea. Would love to see a picture if you do one 🙂
This is a fantastic idea! Grace has joined the summer reading challenge too. I think she is on her 3rd or 4th book now. #readwithme
Wow – Grace is doing well 🙂
Great idea to create a reading tree – it’s so creative & looks like you have had a lot of great reads! #readwithme
We’ve read more than we’ve managed to draw pictures for but it’s still fun to see the different characters that are climbing the tree 🙂
What a brilliant idea for recording summer reading. We’re going to be doing the summer reading challenge at our local library and I’m very tempted to create a reading tree for Sophie to do as well. #MMBC
It was really fun to add pictures to the tree and it’s so lovely to look back at them again now 🙂
I love your reading tree! What a fun way to record the books that you have read. I love the little characters too. 🙂
It’s a really fun way for little ones to record reading progress as they can just draw pictures 🙂