Extension Does: Summer Fun Activities

Each week we will share some fun activities for children pre-K – 5^th grade around a theme.  The Summer Fun Activity handout will include a variety of ideas :

• Get Exploring - STEM
• Get Active - Games
• get Creative - Art activity,
• Get Cooking - Food activity, and
• Book List.

Be sure to share photos of the activities that you tried on our  Purdue Extension Health and Human Sciences Area 8   facebook page.

Gardening

• Garden Summer Fun Activities (overall Gardening handout below)
• Gardening teaches Responsibility - checkout our TeRRiFiC youth Responsibility handout on how easy it is to demonstrate why Responsibility is important when pulling weeds.
• Hobo meal – recipe; video - This is a great way to have children add vegetables to their meal.
• Sandwich Bag Garden  - Children learn how seeds germinate and begin to learn about the parts of a plant. Watch Sandwich Bag Garden video for details.

Flowers

• Flowers Summer Fun Activities (overall Flowers handout below)
• Decoupage Flower Pot – Decorate a flower pot and plant a flower for a cute gift. This video gives you tips on how easy it is to decorate and decoupage a flower pot.  See handout below for supply list and directions.
• “The Flower Man” by Mark Ludy is a wordless book about a man who begins to give flowers to people in a community. The flowers bring color that brightens up the community and the people as well. Here is a link to Mark Ludy telling about the book.

Bugs

• Bugs Summer Fun Activities (overall Bugs handout below)
• Bug Bingo - 1 card for youth and 1 card for adults below.
• The life cycle of a butterfly. Video
• Listen to this story to get a perspective of what it might be like to be an ant.

 Farm Animals

• Farm Animals Summer Fun Activities (overall Farm Animals handout below)
• From Egg to Chicken story

Recycling

• Recycling  Summer Fun Activities (overall Recycling handout below)
• Make a recycling bracelet from pop tabs - check out this link
• How to make a recyclable water can from a milk jug.

Growing Together

• Growing Together Summer Fun Activities (overall Growing Together handout below)
• Hero's (Helping Every child Reach Optimum Success) Story Time is a compilation of books that were specifically chosen to teach character skills that cultivate healthy relationships with peer, family, and community. Join us for Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon

Transportation

• Transportation  Summer Fun Activities (overall Transportation handout below)
• This transportation video shows how to use transportation toys to develop pre-writing skills 

Weather 

• Weather Summer Fun Activities (overall Weather handout below)

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