Summer Adventures

I am going to do my best to follow and post a theme of activities each week to do during the summer. These activities will include fun outdoor activities, crafts, reading/storytelling, and other learning ideas.

It is important to keep the mind fresh during summer break so kids are ready for school when it is time to go back.

I am not taking it too heavy on the learning side, I want summer to be a fun time for exploring and play. I still want the kids to look forward to summer break.

This is the first year I am trying a 'plan' during the summer. I will be posting our activities here and other activities on my Facebook page Big Energy Little Learners.

I hope you get inspired!

Here are our activities for week 3:

Week 3-QUESTS AND ADVENTURES

This was a spectacular week for imaginative play! There were many story starters for our adventures and sharing of ideas. These adventures were limitless. We traveled many places and saw many great things on our adventures and quests this week. We also practiced our alphabet!

Here is a list of links to the adventure activities we did this week:

Space Busy Bag

Alphabet Rocks

Rockets

Rock Quest

Washing Rocks

Alphabet Discovery Bottle

Moon Crater Experiment

Library Adventure

Space Adventure

Alphabet Adventures

All of these adventures can be modified to more great adventuring.
There was a lot of alphabet tie in this week for the learning side. There were also some neat books we read about adventure.

This was a nice bed time, sleep adventure book.

This books was great! After we read about Sir Charlie Stinky Socks adventure we went on a walk with our swords and brooms to see what we could find in the deep, dark forest. :)

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Painting With Squirt Guns

We did this as a Fathers Day project, but it fits in outside play perfectly. I liked this for Fathers because it was an interactive activity for the kids to do with Jerry to celebrate him and the time they enjoy spending with him. I filled 1 gun with yellow paint and 2 guns with black paint. The squirt guns we used were from the dollar store and had a decently big hole to pour the paint into. Some squirt guns have itty bitty holes that make squirting paint into the gun very difficult. Taped off the canvas...and made the kids pose Then the guns were handed to the kids and dad. Instructions were to shoot the canvas not each other. Very simple. Start squirting! The squirting went on and on. I refilled the guns a couple times so the activity could continue. Jerry also took time with each Dragon to squirt with them. With a Star Wars theme we were looking at having black as the primary color and yellow as the secondar

Elephant Faces

Elephant Faces (masks) We used: Three paper plates Paint or markers Paint brushes Stapler Scissors Yarn First paint the bottom of the paper plate. While the kids painted I cut the other paper plate in half for the ears. Using the third plate I cut out the textured part of the plate to make the trunks. Paint (or color) the rest of the pieces. Staple them together to make an elephant. Cut out small holes for eyes and small holes behind the ears to attach the yarn. Now that the lesson is over I have the masks hanging in the playroom. They make a neat decoration.

Teeth Craft

This craft went with our meat eater unit you can see here I was having a difficult time thinking of activities for meat eaters. I didn't want the sole focus to be on dinosaurs because carnivores and herbivores is a way to categorize many animals today. But everything I was running into was dinosaur related. Finally I found this craft! Materials: paper template of a carnivore and herbivore (I drew a hippo and t-rex head outline) page of teeth scissors glue markers Little Dragon cut out the heads and then the mouth pieces. Then he cut out the teeth and glued them inside the mouth To finish it he drew eyes on the head and a tongue on the inside of the mouth. Little Dragon was very excited to see the finished animals and open their mouths to look at their teeth. We wrote what the animal was on the inside This was a fun easy craft that helps identify the difference in the teeth between carnivore an

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