Jefferson County Energy Express

Energy Express is a summer reading program for children entering 1st through 6th grades. Energy Express is a free program that focuses on continuing literacy education throughout the summer months through art, writing, and drama activities. Although it may look a little different this year, we are still planning to offer the program.

At Energy Express you will:

• Make new friends.
• Express yourself through art, writing, and drama activities.
• Get a book to keep each week.
• Spend time with a college student mentor.

PARENTS:

Apply for the Energy Express program!

Complete a Child Application

NOTE: Additional details will be provided, as they are available. (Child applications taken until all spots are filled, child selection is based on a variety of criteria. There are a limited amount of spots for the program and admittance is not guaranteed).

• Buttons and beads – jewelry making for costumes, collage, sculpture, puppets
• Clothesline and clothespins – to create display/drying area
• Containers (cardboard containers, plastic cottage cheese or yogurt containers, margarine bins) – for all kinds of storage, drums, musical rattles
• Cotton balls – used to blend chalk drawings, collage
• Cupcake paper liners
• Empty cereal, cracker, shoe boxes – book covers
• End rolls of newsprint (from newspaper offices) –murals, writing big stories
• Feathers – used to paint, collage, sculpture
• Flour – papier-mâché
• Foam egg cartons – for paint containers/palette
• Foam meat trays (disinfect with water and bleach!) – palettes for painting
• Large appliance boxes – private reading spots, buildings, cars, castles
• Magazines with lots of pictures – collage, illustrations—appropriate titles
• Newspapers – preparing spaces for making art, stuffing paper bag sculpture
• Packing material (foam peanuts or shredded paper) – collage, sculpture
• Paper bags (all sizes) for masks, personal storage, sculpture
• Paper plates
• Paper towel or toilet paper tubes for sculpture, cardboard box construction
• Plastic buckets with lids – for storing items
• Plastic grocery bags
• Plastic rings from soft drink packs – bubble making, collage
• Sand – sand painting, casting plaster of Paris
• Shower curtains or old sheets – drop cloths
• Shredded paper (used for stuffing)
• Socks and pantyhose – puppets
• String, thread, yarn, spools – mobiles, collage, spools for puppets or sculpture
• Textured fabrics and other materials (wool, leather, silk, netting, flannel, plastic, bark, velvet, sandpaper, screening) – collage, costume making, puppets
• Used file folders – bookmaking, portfolios
• Wallpaper sample books – for decorating book covers, collage
• Wrapping paper, freezer paper, or butcher paper drawing, painting, collage

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