60 Activities and Ideas for parents and children to do.
- Write numbers from 1 to 100.
- Find an object in your house that begins with each letter of the alphabet.
- Write 10 sentences. Use a number word in each sentence.
- Make something in the kitchen involving the use of measuring cups.
- Go outside and find things for every colour of the rainbow.
- Write a story about your pet or a pet you would like to have.
- Write a letter to someone.
- Write the names of five friends, now make as many words using the letters of their names as you can.
- Make a scrapbook of animal pictures. You might want to choose an animal you like. See if you can find some old magazines or calendars to look for the pictures.
- Read a story to someone.
- Count the money in your wallet or ask mum or dad to give you some coins to count.
- Keep a journal of what you do during the Summer. Write in it at least 2 times each week.
- Write numbers backwards from 20 – 0 in words.
- Write the alphabet three times in your best cursive writing.
- Go outside. Find things for the sense of touch, things that are smooth, rough, prickly, sharp, hard, soft, dry, wet, etc. Make a log book of what you discover.
- Correctly spell as many colour words as you can, try some of the harder ones too like turquoise and burgundy.
- Write numbers in 5’s to 50.
- Make little signs to name things in your room. Put them up in your room.
- Draw a picture of something outside. Write 5 or more sentences about it.
- Write all the number facts that will add to 10. (6 + 4 = 10, etc. )
- Go on a nature hike. Collect things and put them in a picture.
- Pretend you are a giant. Write a short story about it.
- Write the names of all of the 2d shapes you can find at home.
- Cut out words from the newspaper - one for each letter of the alphabet
- Use the letters in the word UNITED KINGDOM to write as many words as you can.
- Find a recipe that uses a colour word in it's title and help your mum or dad make it.
- Count out loud to 100
- Write 10 sentences. Use a colour word in each sentence.
- Write numbers by 2’s to 100 (2, 4, 6...)
- Write a fairy tale. Then read it to someone younger than you.
- Write a poem about the weather, an animal or a plant.
- Plant something outside or help take care of a garden.
- Imagine that you have an alligator as a pet. Write a story about it.
- Cut apart the squares of a comic strip. Mix them up. Rearrange them in the correct order and then rearrange them into a funny mixed up story.
- Compare your bike with a friend’s bike. How are the alike? How are they different? Then do a safety check on both bikes.
- Make a sandwich. Cut it in half and then in quarters.
- Make a list of everything you can find that is orange.
- Cut out words from a magazine. Make sentences out of them.
- With your parent's permission, find one person who is elderly and offer to help them with their garden work one afternoon.
- Write any ten numbers between 1 to 50. Cut them out and mix them up. Arrange them again from smallest to largest.
- Cut out a picture from an old calendar. Cut it into puzzle pieces and then put it back together.
- Choose a flower out of your garden, learn everything you can about that flower.
- Make price tags for several objects in your room. Make some play money and use it to buy the things in your play shop.
- What would you do if you lived during the time of dinosaurs? Write a story about it.
- Write a postcard and send it.
- Draw a map of your garden, put a treasure (a small box with a few treats) somewhere in your garden and mark it on your map. Invite your family to try to find the treasure.
- Find objects around your home that begin with the sound SH . Draw a picture of each of them or have someone help you write them down. (sheets, shoe, etc.)
- Write your name. Cut out each letter. Arrange the letters in A,B,C, order.
- Pick anywhere in the world and find out more about that place by going to the library or searching on the internet.
- Read 26 books, starting with a book in which the authors last name begins with A, and then B until you get to Z.
- Write numbers by 10’s to 500.
- Go to the library and check out some books about space.
- Go outside and find 3 different kinds of leaves. How are they alike and different? Try to find out what types of leaves they are.
- Write numbers from 701 to 1000.
- Go outside. Learn which direction is north, south, east, and west. Walk 10 steps north and then 5 steps west. Where are you? (Stay out of the street!)
- Volunteer - ask your mom or dad to help you find someplace in your community where you can volunteer once or twice a week to help (places like the library, a veterinarian clinic, a senior's home).
- Collect bottles from your neighbourhood and donate the money to a local charity.
- Write all the names of animals you know and have a friend do the same thing. Who can write the most names in 5 minutes.
- Find pictures of objects that when matched will make a compound word. Suggestions: a horse and a shoe: a nut and a shell; a tree and a house; a cow and a boy. etc.. Then have a younger relative try to match all the pictures.
- Look for rocks in your garden. See if you can find 10 unusual rocks.