Summer Superheros

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 activities for week 2:

Week 2-SUPER HEROES

The super hero theme was awesome! It was very active and The Dragons loved that. It seemed that it also made everybody feel special. Each dragon was their own type of hero and they tried out being different types of heroes and villains.

It was also a very creative week, many different story starters with superheros that can encourage story telling or writing. There were so many stories this week there was no way I could keep up with all of them.

Here are is a list of links to the super hero activities we did:

Building a super hero

Mega strength...or science

On the learning side The Dragons were Super Spellers!

They spelled out the names of the super heroes in our community.

Little Dragon had more handwriting then spelling practice for this.

We played guess the super power

I wrote a small example of what the hero could do and The Dragons guessed what their power would be.

We brainstormed super powers

Some things we didn't do was have a super hero movie night or playing out our favorite movie or comic.
There was plenty of pretend but it is hard to take pictures when you are flying around being a super hero. :)

I love reading comments so please share what summer activities you are doing this week!

Comments

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 blac...

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 ...

Paint Squirt Gun Fight

I was waiting for the perfect opportunity to do this activity ever since I saw a post about painting with squirt guns. Paint squirt gun fight! And it was AMAZING! I first bought an 8 pack of large boys white t-shirts. I wanted the shirts to fit all of the kids and I wanted them to be able to save the shirts for the future. The 8 pack was perfect. I filled the water guns up with paint and a pinch of water. Each gun had a different color so we could determine a 'winner'. I squirted each 'player' with their color first. So they knew their color and to demonstrate where to aim. Talking about the aim was very important. All of the kids involved were 4 and above. Aim had to be in the tummy or the back. No faces, bottoms, heads/hair, or legs. We didn't want paint in eyes, noses, or mouths. The other places would be more difficult to clean and giving two aiming places was simple. ...

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