summer challenge · booklet. each challenge can be done at your own speed and order. please note...

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SummerChallenge

A New Way To Play!

SummerWelcome to the Peoria Park District

Challenge

In order to be entered (and win weekly prizes) please sign up at www.PeoriaParks.org/SummerChallenge

Please note, that registration for the challenge is done by household. All ages are welcome to participate! Participants are allowed to register until the July 31st deadline. Each week we will draw a winner for a PPD sponsored prize. Winners will be notified via e-mail so make sure you sign up to be entered! Once you sign up, you will receive the Summer Challenge booklet. Each challenge can be done at your own speed and order. Please note that we will go through the challenges numerically and highlight them on our Facebook page over the course of the 9 weeks. On those posts, we encourage participants to comment with pictures, videos, etc. of you completing that highlighted challenge. If you comment, we’ll give you another weekly entry to win a prize!

The Summer Challenge will officially run from June 1- July 31, 2020. The challenge is free and open

to everyone who lives, works and plays in Peoria!

PeoriaParks.org/SummerChallenge#ANewWaytoPlay

Challenge

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Hummingbird Feeder

Pollinator Portrait

During a typical summer, Sommer Farm hosts an annual Hummingbird Festival. Research Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and their feeding habits. Get creative and use materials in your home to create a hummingbird feeder, fill it with homemade nectar, and see if you can attract a hummingbird!

Donovan Park is home to some fantastic native prairie plantings. These are important for pollinating insects. Go for a walk in Donovan Park and take a picture or draw an insect you see. Can you name it?

Share to Win! Each week, we will draw a winner for our weekly prize! Everyone who signs up for the program, will be entered. Want an extra entry? Go to the Peoria Park District’s Facebook page, Facebook.com/PeoriaParkDistrict/ and comment on the Summer Challenge post with a picture of you completing the challenge!

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Roar for the Camera

Meerkat Kam Study

Take a selfie with the Triebel Lion statues outside the Peoria Zoo, and show us your best lion pose! Don’t forget to ROAR! Research these statues or lions, and share your favorite fact with someone you know.

Take a peek at the Meerkat Kam at PeoriaZoo.org/meerkat-kam/. Write down three things you see the meerkats doing.

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Sweet Syrup CreationsCamp Wokanda is open daily for hiking, and staff and volunteers at Wokanda make maple syrup from trees right there in the park! What’s your favorite way to use/eat maple syrup? Show us your recipe OR a photo of your culinary creation.

Location! Location! Location! Not sure where the parks are located? Visit the Park District Website, PeoriaParks.org to view all our places and spaces! On the website you can find amenities of each park, hiking trails, and fun facts!

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Solar System Trek

Walk the Talk

Where is Robert?

Four planets in the Riverfront Museum Central Illinois Community Solar System can be found along the Rock Island/Pimetoui Trail, which runs along the Peoria riverfront. Can you find them all?

Columbia Park features a Story Walk on its walking trail. Complete the Story Walk and photograph yourself with the final ‘page’ of the story. What do you think would happen after the final page, if the story continued?

Find the statue of Robert Ingersoll in Glen Oak Park. Take a picture, and do some research about Ingersoll. What did he do to deserve a statue? Make your own statue or portrait of somebody who inspires you.


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Seeking Forest Friend

Tawny Oaks Folks

While on a hike or walk, can you spot any animals using camouflage to blend in with their environment? Take a picture, and see if anyone can spot your ‘hidden’ animal friend.

Tawny Oaks Field Station has nesting structures for three different types of birds: Purple Martins, Chimney Swifts, and Eastern Bluebirds. Can you find and photograph all three structures at Tawny Oaks?


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Once a Upon a Tail

Build Your Own Park!

Check out the Peoria Zoo’s website. What’s your favorite fun fact about a species at the Zoo? Incorporate your fact into a short story about an adventure of you and your favorite zoo animal.

Peoria Park District parks include structures like greenhouses, an observatory, former stables, bridges, and golf clubhouses. Design your ‘dream park’ with indoor and outdoor spaces by sketching, designing on a computer, building with Lego or other materials – however you want to express yourself. Share a photo of your design.


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Fore Real Play Time

Dream On! Dream on!

Park District golf courses are open this summer! If you enjoy golf, photograph yourself having fun playing at one of our courses. If not, share a photo of yourself enjoying your favorite sport – even if it’s a sport you invented yourself!

What was the Peoria Park District venue that has played host to bands like Fleetwood Mac and the Beach Boys in the 1970’s? In which park would you want to see a live music event? If this inspires you, create a song to be performed at the event!

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Bridge, Anyone?Which Peoria Park District park is home to a beautiful Japanese bridge? Go find the bridge (or your favorite Peoria bridge) and share a picture of you and the bridge.


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Settle in for StoryTime!

Extra! Extra!

Say it in Stone!

Attend StoryTime at the PlayHouse on Peoria PlayHouse Children’s Museum’s Facebook page every Friday at 10 am. Share something new you learned at StoryTime.

Write an article or make a video and submit it to the PlayHouse Times.

To Learn More visit PlayHousetimes.org

Visit Rocky Glen and find the carvings people have etched into the canyon wall. Can you find the carving of a hand holding a union card? This natural area is protected now, but if you wanted to carve something memorable into stone, what would you choose? Show us a drawing or sketch.


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Sweet Summer Maker

Un-bee-lievably Cozy

Participate in the Peoria PlayHouse Summer Maker Challenge by choosing one of the 16 Maker Activities to do and submit, and win a badge! Complete four activities and win a free treat from Dairy Queen!

For full details visit PeoriaPlayhouse.org/innovation-at-home.

Sometimes, bees curl up with other bees to nap in a flower and hold each other’s feet as they snooze! Draw the perfect flower for your midday nap. For inspiration, be a naturalist, and go observe insects interacting with flowers in many of our parks.


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