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A Family Recipe Book

Food tells a story and keeping a record of your family recipes can evoke wonderful memories and keep traditions alive for generations to come. To learn more, visit the National Archives - Preserving Family Recipes.



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Dino Dance
Children move and groove to music using some dino-themed dances. Guide children in the steps and for extra fun, make dinosaur masks, feet, and horns for everyone to wear.    

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Dinosaur DIYs


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Make a Field Journal
Paleontologists and other natural scientists often use field notebooks or journals to record their observations, take notes, and list their findings. You can create your own field journal to record your everyday life. Use the following journal prompts to complete the mission and add your own entries throughout summer and beyond.

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Page Turner Adventures: Cooperation

In this tasty tale of cooperation and unity, Mayor Ann Chovi and her daughter Nan Chovi must decide who makes the best pizza in the town of Mozzarella—Vincent Van Dough or Leonardo Da Munchi. Vincent thinks the dough is the best part of the pizza! Leonardo believes it’s the sauce! Find out how Nan Chovi resolves this delicious dilemma in The Great Pizza Contest.



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Page Turner Adventures: Empathy

Arthur C. Doyle is a hardboiled Private Fly who solves tricky mysteries by figuring out what people are really feeling. When he’s faced with a tough case involving a pilfered prized pastry, Arthur and his partner Stella Spider will literally have to walk in someone else’s shoes to bring the culprit to justice.



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Page Turner Adventures: Friendship

Moth and Sloth are the best of friends until Sloth’s insecurities put their friendship in jeopardy. Eventually, Moth and Sloth learn what’s involved in being a true friend. This heartwarming tale of friendship is set in a tropical rainforest and is sprinkled with scientific facts about the symbiotic relationship between sloths and moths.



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Page Turner Adventures: Kindness

In this original fairytale, a boy named Bartholomew Huggins longs to do something big and important. When Queen Beneficent offers a reward to anyone who can restore kindness to her kingdom, Bartholomew hopes to do something truly spectacular, but he soon discovers that it’s often the smallest acts of kindness that make the biggest difference.



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