School has finally broken up, I've really been looking forward to the long summer break with the children for the first time. While lots of lazy days will be in order it's also nice to have some plans for those ' I'm bored' moments.
I'm putting together a summer fun jar with lots of activities and ideas written on bits of paper for the children to dip into. I've gathered together ideas from here, here and here. Together with a few of my own of course, all to go into the jar which will be decorated and filled tomorrow
Make potato prints
Paint clay pots
Make treasure bottles, fill plastic bottles with sand and hide little treasures in it
make fimo buttons
play on the water slide
wash the car
go for a nature walk
choose an item from the Pound Shop and play with it for at least an hour
Decorate shoes boxes with magazine clippings
Make friendship pins, ting beads on safety pins
Do some junk modelling
Do science experiments with magnets or dropping pebbles into water filled containers
Make paper windmills
Bake some cakes
Press flowers
Make papier mache
Make a flag
Make a blanket raft and take supplies for the adventure
Have a Teddy Bears Picnic
Grow carrot tops
Put celery in water with food colouring
Do some leaf rubbings
Make pompoms
Make a nature bracelet with brown parcel tape on your wrist and stick leaves etc to it
Feed the ducks
Go to a Pick Your Own Farm
Visit the local museums, lots of summer activities many of them free
Go for a bike ride
Join the library book challenge
Write a story in a homemade book
Play circus, juggling, hula hooping, using a skipping rope as a tightrope
Make sock puppets
Make bookmarks
'Paint' the patio with water
Paint with lemon juice on white paper and hang it in the window
Make a collage with pictures from magazines
Make painted hand and feet prints
Make a garden obstacle course
Make homemade lollies
Make fruit kebabs
Do bubble painting
Go to the cinema on Orange Wednesday
Visit www.freedayout.co.uk, www.kinderart.com, www.artsonia.com, www.uptoten.com www.letterboxing.org/kids/ and http://www.kidscraftweekly.com/ for even more ideas.
What do you enjoy doing over the summer?