games for the summer

I will be posting games for the summer to do with your children. I will post by the week. They will be things you have around the house

June 30- July 4

Water Day-Bubble play. - make 1 part dish soup to 5 parts water. Use pipe
cleaners to make different shapes.
Paint the fence with water
Have a water balloon throw


Nature Day-
Scavenger Hunt- go to the park and let the children find things like jagged edge leaf
4 petal flower
yellow flower
purple flower
clustered flower
compound leaf
heart shaped leaf


Get creative and maybe just focus on nature items so kids can really focus on
the different kind of leaves or petals of flowers.

Make daisy chains or dandelion chains- slit a hole an inch from the flower on the stem and slide a 2nd stem and flower into it. On the 2nd stem and flower slit another hole and add a 3rd flower to the 2nd flower. Then add a 4rth flower to the 3rd flower ect.


Game Day
Leap Frog- Stand in a line an let the first person make a back and the 2nd peson hope over. The
second person also make a back and the third person jumps over 2 people. The
forth person jumps over 3 people and you keep going until there are no more
standing. Then the boys who makes the first back starts again and leaps each
of the backs and makes another back at the end, the next player does the same and
thus a continual advancing line of bacsks is formed

Hopscotch- Use chalk to draw the game on pavement and a stone to play the game. If there
is no chalk use stone to draw on pavement
use a stone to try to draw the game on pavement

Canada Day
Make a cake with whip cream icing and use strawberries to make a Canada flag design on the cake.
Have a picnic on the beach


Hiking Day
Go on a long hike and look for animals, flowers and nature. Pack snacks and when you come back make bookmarks with the flowers and hard paper and contact paper.