Summer Projects for Kids

Lots of great ideas for the good ole summer time.

A Day (or Night) at the Museum

1. 'Summer Learning Projects for Kids: How Parents Can Make Education Fun'

Special outings, say to the museum, is fun for you grown-ups, too.

http://suite101.com/article/summer-learning-projects-for-kids-a55583  

Put it on your calendar.

I had no idea every day in summer wasn't a learning day, but I was stuck teaching summer school many years. So, here it is, all organized.

2. Summer Learning Day June 21, 2012

I believe Sylvan helps out with this,

http://www.summerlearning.org/?page=sldplan

 Walmart participates, too.

3. 'Ten fun ways to keep your child learning this summer

Backyard gardens, puppet theaters, scrapbooks and crafts are some of the ways to keep your children active and their minds working all summer long.'

http://www.greatschools.org/students/summer-activities/68-summer-learning-activities-that-are-practically-free.gs?page=2 

These suggestions are way too exciting--we'd need an endless summer for this.

I think we have a winner.

 1. Grow the biggest zucchini in your neighborhood.

 2. Clip, paste and write about your family adventures.

 3. Get theatrical.

 4. Make chocolate mousse or build a bird feeder. Or both!

5. Paint the picket fence, baby-sit or volunteer at a soup kitchen.

6. Become the family's junior travel agent.

 7. Visit a jelly bean factory or a glassblowing studio. 
Or a jelly bean blowing studio.

Punch and Judy eat your heart out.

 8. Turn a museum trip into a treasure hunt. 

This is a very creative idea.


9. Get stickers, tattoos and comics for free.

 10. Become an investment guru or a math wizard. 
Or a dancer or a painter or an opera singer--just to balance out the right/left brain thing.





I think Number 8 is the best--buying the postcards first, then playing treasure hunt--that is very creative. Kudos. Great Schools, Great Idea.


 4. 3 Cool Summer Learning Projects

Some more ideas to keep the kids active brain-wise.  
 
http://momshomeroom.msn.com/parenting-articles/getting_involved/3-cool-summer-learning-projects/28838693
 

 NASA actually provides instructions for the homemade rocket.Well, that'll make it okay.

This isn't the backyard, its an elementary school in Hawaii at Ford Island.