The TEEN-y tiny art show returns! Sign up for a mini canvas kit, then use any 2D and/or 3D supplies at home to create your entry. See your art on display in the library for a community showcase--and vote for the top three! 

Starting June 1: sign up to receive a Tiny Art Show kit HERE.

Contest Kit Pick-Up Time Window: June 14-July 6

Entry Submission Window: July 1-15 

• Participants must be teens going into Grade 7-12 (Fall 2025). Teens who graduated high school in May 2025 can also participate in another year of Young Adult programming. Unless noted otherwise, all library activities and programs are free.

View/download the full teen “Level Up At Your Library” Summer Program booklet HERE.

Get ready to unlock a world of magic, mystery, and epic rewards with our summer reading challenge for teens—only at the library! Read from June 1-July 31 to move across a fantastical map filled with mythical creatures, enchanted lands, and hidden treasures. As you journey through the realm, you’ll collect stamps, conquer challenges, and earn exciting prizes along the way!

• Sign up to receive your own Fantasy Reading Map at the Teen Services desk! To participate in the teen program, you must be going into Grade 7-12 by Fall 2025 or a 2025 high school graduate.

How to Play:

• Create your own daily reading goal for each map section. The goal can be the same for every section—or you can create a new one each time!

• Reading goal examples: Read 30 minutes every day. – Read 15 pages a day. – Finish a book in five days.

• Each map section contains five books, with each book representing one day. Color in a book when you fulfill your daily reading goal. Collect all the books in a map section to please the reading dragons—and to redeem the reward!

• All reading counts! This includes, but is not limited to: books, audiobooks, fanfiction, graphic novels, manga, and much more!

Rewards:

Whether you’re a dragon-rider, spell-caster, or secret adventurer, your next great quest begins with a book! Read to complete each map section and then redeem its reward at the Teen Services desk. You must be present during the library visit in order to redeem your reading rewards.

Prize Orbs:

Redeem a prize orb and you could win: books, bracelets, candy, cool pens, iron-on patches, keychains, lanyards, pool passes, pop fidget toys, rubber charms, scrunchies, and more!

Grand Prizes:

Win one of the ten Grand Prizes! Enter your drawing tickets into the prize boxes located in the Teen Space. You can receive drawing tickets by reading through the Fantasy Map challenge or by participating in summer teen programs—and the following have bonus ticket rewards: Maze Maker challenge, Summerween challenge, Teen “Nailed It!” contest, and the Tiny Art Show.

View/download the full teen “Level Up At Your Library” Summer Program booklet HERE. 

Think you can “Nail It”? Prove it in our sixth annual contest! Teen bakers and brave kitchen creatives—it's time to show off your skills! We’re challenging you to recreate the same over-the-top, glamorous cake from the comfort of your own kitchen. Whether it’s a masterpiece or a delicious mess, we want to see your best attempt!

Snap some photos of your final creation and submit it to earn bragging rights and a chance to win one of the top three prizes! Icing disasters and frosting fails welcome: this is all about creativity, effort, and having fun!

Sign up to be a contestant starting June 1: HERE.

Starting June 21: The 2025 recipe reveal! Contestants will receive a photo and basic recipe, which they may then bake and submit anytime up to the entry deadline: Sunday, July 20 by 11:59 PM 

Contestants may submit up to five, good-quality photos as their entry. You can also share extra behind-the-scenes photos or videos for bonus Grand Prize tickets (up to +3)! 

• See the 2024 Teen "Nailed It" Contest entries here: bit.ly/bellyanailedit2024

• See the 2023 Teen "Nailed It" Contest entries here: bit.ly/bellyanailedit2023

• Community Vote: Choose your favorite entries online from July 22-31! Check our social media for the entry photos and voting link. Participants will also be emailed the voting link.

• Grand Prize ($50) + 3 Grand Prize tickets 

• Two Runners-Up ($25) + 3 Grand Prize tickets 

• All Other Contestants: Prize Orb + 3 Grand Prize tickets  

• Participants must be teens going into Grade 7-12 (Fall 2025). Teens who graduated high school in May 2025 can also participate in another year of Young Adult programming. Unless noted otherwise, all library activities and programs are free.

View/download the full teen “Level Up At Your Library” Summer Program booklet HERE.  

Learn the art of designing your own maze—from concept to completion--with this challenge kit! Craft your a-maze-ing masterpiece, then submit it to be included in a special collection that will be shared with the community. Can others draw their way out of your maze--or will they get lost in the lines? Complete the challenge for bonus rewards!

Starting June 1: Sign up for a Maze Maker Challenge kit HERE. 

• Kit Pick-Up Starts: June 14 

• Maze Submission: July 1-15 

Turn your maze entries in at the Teen Services desk. 

• Participants must be teens going into Grade 7-12 (Fall 2025). Teens who graduated high school in May 2025 can also participate in another year of Young Adult programming. Unless noted otherwise, all library activities and programs are free.

View/download the full teen “Level Up At Your Library” Summer Program booklet  HERE. 

→ Do you prefer to celebrate Halloween twice a year? Then join the Summerween Challenge below to get in the spooky spirit--and receive bonus rewards! Sign up starting June 1: HERE. 

• Summerween Challenge: June 7-July 31 

 You can choose to either be emailed the Summerween BINGO sheet or pick one up at the Teen Services Desk. Redeem your completed Summerween sheet at the Teen Services Desk. You may complete the challenge once.

• Participants must be teens going into Grade 7-12 (Fall 2025). Teens who graduated high school in May 2025 can also participate in another year of Young Adult programming. Unless noted otherwise, all library activities and programs are free.

View/download the full teen “Level Up At Your Library” Summer Program booklet HERE.   

 This fun kit includes all you need to mix up a cool and refreshing drink with strawberry tea and either mango or strawberry popping boba!

• Kit Pick-Up Starts: June 14

• Registration opens June 1 at: HERE 

• Participants must be teens in Grade 7-12. Teen 2024 high school graduates are also eligible. View/download the full teen “Level Up At Your Library” Summer Program booklet HERE. 

• Unless noted otherwise, all library activities and programs are free. 

Can you master the bendy techniques of pipe cleaner crafts? Make a fuzzy, little bumblebee (keychain attachment optional)! 

• Kit Pick-Up Starts: June 28

• Registration opens June 1 at: HERE

• Participants must be teens in Grade 7-12. Teen 2024 high school graduates are also eligible.

View/download the full teen “Level Up At Your Library” Summer Program booklet HERE. 

 • Unless noted otherwise, all library activities and programs are free. 

Registration for our 2025 Summer Library Program: Level Up at Your Library begins! Visit the SLP registration and prize desk to join.

Get creative with our Customized Waterproof Phone Case Kit, perfect for adults looking to personalize their phone while keeping it protected. This kit provides everything you need to design a one-of-a-kind, waterproof phone case, perfect for summer adventures.

Register HERE.

Welcome to The Journal Studio--a new creative club just for teens! Explore all kinds of journaling, from bullet and junk journaling to gratitude and freewriting, while trying out fun supplies, getting inspiring prompts, and hanging out with friends in a chill, no-pressure space. Whether you're new to journaling or already obsessed, there's a page here for you!

• When: Sunday, June 15 - 2:30-3:45 PM 

• Where: Bellevue Public Library - Meeting Room A

• Registration opens June 1 at: HERE 

• Participants must be teens going into Grade 7-12 (Fall 2025). Teens who graduated high school in May 2025 can also participate in another year of Young Adult programming. Unless noted otherwise, all library activities and programs are free.

View/download the full teen “Level Up At Your Library” Summer Program booklet  HERE