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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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.

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

Mini Story Boards

Mini Story Boards We used: Foam Cookie sheets Magnets Paper I found the cookie sheets at the dollar store and loved the idea of the kids telling their own stories using movable magnets. I cut out flowers with the foam (you can cut out any design and use construction paper instead of foam) and little people then stuck a magnet to the back. I cut out bugs and stuck magnets to the back of those too. Then I drew little scenes that would inspire a story and put them on the cookie sheet. One demonstration and their imaginations took off on their own :)

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