Volunteer Opportunities for Teens 

Rather than having in-person volunteers at this time, we encourage you to work on projects that help the library and your community from home. Complete these activities on your own and then send us a picture and we will award you the amount of "hours" listed here. Have fun!

Activity

Come up with program ideas for virtual and in-person teen and kids' programs you would like to see at the Portland Library.

Send cards or letters to nursing home residents.

Sign up to review books through the Page Turners programs at
Words Alive (www.wordsalive.org/page-turners)

Complete a library-themed Tik-Tok challenge that we can post to
our Instagram page

Participate in our library Covid-19 collection: submit photos and
written pieces about your experiences

Paint kindness rocks for our community rock garden

Create Kahoot! questions and games for trivia with younger kids
or other teens

Create original artwork or poetry to fill the teen art bulletin board

Make face masks to donate to people who need them

Register to write letters to people in need through
www.moreloveletters.com. Choose a person from the list to write
to or nominate someone you know to receive letters

Create a video signing “Thank you for your Courage” in American
Sign Language, upload it to social media, and use the hashtags
#Courage4Heroes and #OperationGratitude.

Hours Awarded

1 hour per three ideas

1 hour per five cards

1 hour per three reviews

1 hour per two videos

1 hour per five pictures or two paragraphs of journals

1 hour per two rocks

1 hour per ten questions

Varies

1 hour per two masks

1 hour per three letters

1 hour per video