Did you know that I run an online bookshop selling Usborne children’s books? Because of this, I created this printable treasure hunt that you can use as a World Book Day activity. This free bookshelf scavenger hunt will get students to look for specific books and encourage reading. Besides being a World Book Day activity, you can actually use it any time of the year and with students across many different age groups to promote literacy in general.

Other Printable Literacy Centers and Worksheets

1) Fairy Alphabet Bingo – This easy prep alphabet activity will make teaching letter recognition so fun and simple.

2) Peanut Butter and Jelly Alphabet Match – learn to match upper to lowercase letters.

3) Alphabet No-Prep Busy Bundle – 600+ pages of alphabet activities including playdough mats, handwriting practice, latter recognition, letter case sorting, do-a-dot, q tip painting, drawing, punch cards, beginning sound clip cards, etc.

4) Monster Truck Rhyming Wheels – Your child will pair up the monster truck wheels that have rhyming pictures. 12 sets included!

Printable Treasure Hunt Setup

For this activity you will need:

Paper
Printer
Lots of books!

Optional: laminator and dry erase markers

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There’s nothing much you need to do to set up this game except to get the printable treasure hunt sheet ready. We’re all so busy and I love providing you with super easy activities to setup!

Fun World Book Day Activity

In this free printable worksheet, your students will need to find 10 different books – one about science, one that rhymes, etc. You’ll provide them with the checklist and then send them off on their bookshelf hunt.

To make it more interesting, you could make it a race or a team game! For older kids, you could get them to read the books aloud once they have found them. As for me, I’ll be using this printable treasure hunt to run a competition in my online bookshop. I hope your little ones enjoy going on their bookshelf scavenger hunt!

Encourage Reading

If you live in the UK or EU, please visit my online Usborne bookshop. There are thousands of books in the catalogue and plenty of free activities you can download for your students!

Browse My Most Popular Literacy Activites:

1) Valentines Alphabet Clip Strips – Kids will choose among 5 different letters on the strip to identify the matching ones.

2) Alphabet Beginning Sound Coloring Pages – Watch your child become more familiar with each letter of the alphabet as they practice coloring in the objects with that beginning sound.

3) Tommy Turkey’s Alphabet Pie – This turkey-themed letter recognition activity is so simple to prep and makes a great file folder game!

4) Pirate Alphabet Playdough Mats – Just print out the playing mats and ask your child to form the letters out using the playdough provided.

5) Farm Alphabet Find and Cover Letters – Work on letter recognition any time of the year!

6) Werewolf Spin and Cover – Kids will race to find all the letters on their mat this Halloween.

7) Bunny Burrows Game – Fun game for small groups or circle time where students will catch a bunny and say out the sound.

8) Letter-saurus Fossil Digging – Dinosaur lovers will enjoy being a pretend paleontologist and finding all the letters.

9) Alphabet Handwriting Worksheets – Practice lowercase and capital letters with these print-and-go pages.

10) Rainy Day Alphabet – 1 printable, many ways to use.

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