Summertime Blues

Are your kids already claiming to be bored with their free time?  Don't let them resort to TV or Video games when they can't think of anything else to do!  Instead, let's combat those blues and keep educational activities in their daily routine!  Here is Patchwork Preschool's list of fun activities to do with your kids this summer:

• List 10 things you want to do this summer
• Draw a picture of something you want to do this summer. Show it to your parents and tell them why you would like to do it.
• Start a list to keep track of every book you read this summer
• Dictate a story about a turtle to your parents.
• Take a walk with your family and look for things that are less than 1 inch tall.
• Make a list of vegetables.
• Do something nice for your mother.
• Do something nice for your father.
• Take a walk around the block.  How many red objects can you find?
• Find some music.  Make up a dance to the music and teach a friend.
• Start a stamp collection. Cut the stamp off any envelope that will be thrown away.  Look for different ones every day.
• Act out a story using a puppet.
• Cut letters out of a newspaper and spell your family’s names.
• Circle all the words on the front page of the newspaper that begin with “a”.
• Take a walk with your family.  Look for things that move.  Talk about the way they move.
• Look for things that have circles.  Next time, try triangles, or squares.
• Write a letter to your teacher.  Thank him or her for helping you this year.
• Be an architect today and build yourself a secret hideaway.
• Make a list of BIG things.
• Finger-paint with chocolate pudding.
• Draw a picture of the main character of the book you’re reading.
• Take a walk and look for animal tracks.  Compare them to the size of your own feet.  Try to identify them.
• Make an original flag and fly it on Flag Day (June 14^th).
• On June 14^th, count the flags you see flying today.
• Summer solstice – June 21^st – What time does the sunset tonight?
• Find out on what day of the week you were born.  That’s your lucky day!
• Draw a picture of your favorite animal.  Give it a name.
• Stand in the sunlight and see how small you can make your shadow.
• Decorate your bicycle for the 4^th of July
• Read a book by Beatrix Potter
• Read from the tales of Pinocchio
• The Liberty Bell cracked on July 8, 1835.  Draw a picture of the bell.
• Ask your parents to help you make a family tree.
• Develop a new flavor of ice cream
• Look at yourself in the mirror.  Draw what you see.

Do you have any good ideas of your own?  Write a comment and add them to our list!

Like these ideas?  Stay tuned for more!

Contributed by Christine Clark - Chino HIlls, CA