Bonus Summer Fun 2 Week

Summer
FUn 2
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Bonus Activity Plans
July’s Activity Plans
forfor The Activity
Toddlers Room
& Preschoolers
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room Bonus Activity Plan: Summer Fun
glitter
Monday | Tin Can Wind Chimes: hammer
nails
1 Make homemade wind chimes! Paint tin cans and
punch a hole in the bottoms. Thread nuts and washers
paint
string or yarn
on the inside using yarn to hang them. tin cans
washers and nuts
Tuesday | Painting with Sand: paint
2 Mix sand and paint in a bowl to make a textured sand

paint. Use a paintbrush, or your hand, to paint a canvas
paintbrush (optional)
paper (optional)
sand or pantry item
or the sidewalk!
Wednesday | Homemade Windsock Kite:
3
plastic bag
Cut two holes on one side of a plastic bread sack near
scissors
the opening, tie a piece of yarn through both holes to string or yarn
make a tied circle for a handle. Run and watch it fly!
Thursday | Pool Noodle Ladder Jump:
4 Cut two pool noddles into five pieces and lay them out
on the ground like a ladder. Challenge the kids to a
pool noodles
knife
jumping game!
Friday | Shape Rock Tracing:

5 Draw different shapes on the sidewalk in chalk. Collect
chalk
rocks or other nature
sidewalk
rocks and trace the lines of the shapes.
Saturday | Bubble Wand Painting:

bubble wand
6 Paint with bubble wands! Tape a piece of paper to a
tray. Dip a bubble wand into paint and use it like a
paint
paper
paintbrush to make designs!
Sunday | Campfire Handprint Art: brown paper

Make three handprints in red, orange and yellow on glue
7 a piece of white paper to make flames. Tear brown
paper into small pieces and glue below handprints as
paint (red, orange,
yellow)
paper
logs.
room Bonus Activity: Activity:
Summer July
Fun
Save and clean used tin cans. Tape the

Tin Can Wind Chimes 1 cut edge if sharp. Decorate tin cans to
your desire.
Supplies:
glitter, hammer,
nails, paint
string or yarn
tin cans, washers and nuts
2 Punch a hole in the bottom of each tin
can using a hammer and nail.
Thread a string through the hole and tie

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3 a washer, or nut, onto the string, inside
the tin can. Hang together.
Tips:
If using acrylic or An adult will likely have Don’t have a washer or

washable paint, hang to punch the hole in the nut? This is just used
these inside or under tin can, but let the child to hold the string onto
a roof, away from the try with your real tools. the can, a button would
elements. work, or anything else
with a hole to thread
through.
room Bonus Activity: Summer Fun
Painting with Sand 1 Collect a pail of sand and add paint to it

to make a textured sand paint!
Supplies:
paint
paintbrush (optional) Use a paintbrush, or your hand, to paint
paper (optional)
sand or pantry item
2 the sand paint on a paper canvas or the
sidewalk.
3 Wash it off with a hose!
Tips:
If you don’t have sand Prop up paper on a Let little kids just paint
readily available to you, piece of cardboard like the sidewalk and make
you can substitute any an easel to make this lines.
dry pantry item, like interesting.
oatmeal, cornmeal, or
sugar!
Homemade Windsock Kite 1 Cut two holes on one side of a plastic

bread sack near the opening.
Supplies:
plastic bag
scissors
string or yarn 2 Tie a piece of yarn through both holes to
make a tied circle for a handle.
3 Run and watch it fly!
Tips:
You can also do this with Experiment with longer Most of the creation
a plastic shopping bag or shorter strings to see for this will be done by
and tie the strings to the what works best for you the adult, and the child
handles. and your child. can fly the kite behind
them. Try working on
some decorating to the
creation process if you
want to add to it.
Cut two pool noddles into five pieces

Pool Noodle Ladder Jump 1 and lay them out on the ground like a
ladder.
Supplies:
pool noodles
knife
2 Start at the first noodle and see how far
they can jump, how many lines?
Hop from one noodle to the next, lay
3 down and measure how many lines

long your child is, see how far they can
stretch their legs apart, and so on!
Tips:
You can also do this Try putting the noodles Let the kids take it where
inside with tape, or closer together, or they want to! Line the
outside with sidewalk further apart! pool noodles up in a
chalk. straight line, or create
what they like!
Shape Rock Tracing 1 Draw different shapes on the sidewalk

using chalk.
Supplies:
chalk
rocks or other nature sidewalk
2 Go on a hunt to collect a lot of rocks, or
other nature.
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3 Trace the lines of the shapes with the
rocks.
Tips:
Instead of shapes, trace When you’re done Older kids can guess,
letters, numbers, their tracing, count how many make an estimate, of how
name, sight words and rocks it took to trace many rocks it will take
so on. each shape! to trace each one before
starting, and then count
to see.
Bubble Wand Painting 1 Tape a piece of paper to a tray and set

out washable paint.
Supplies:
bubble wand
paint
paper 2 Dip a bubble wand into paint.
3 Use the bubble wand like a paintbrush

to make designs on the paper!
Tips:
Try stamping the side of This activity is about I recommend using

the bubble wand to see the process, not the end Crayola Washable Paints
what kind of prints you product. as they wash out of
can make. everything.
Make three handprints in red, orange

Campfire Handprint Art 1 and yellow in row on a piece of white
paper to make campfire flames.
Supplies:
brown paper
glue
paint (red, orange, yellow)
paper
2 Tear up brown paper into small pieces
to become logs.
3 Glue torn paper logs to the bottom of the

handprints to complete the campfire.
Tips:
Use a brown paper bag Add in color mixing! Use Add a cotton ball on
if you don’t have regular just yellow and red paint a wooden skewer to
brown paper! Or color/ to make handprints and pretend to roast a
paint the paper brown mix them on the paper to marshmallow over the
first. make orange. campfire flames!

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the activity room ®

Tuesday | Painting with Sand: paint

2 Mix sand and paint in a bowl to make a textured sand

Wednesday | Homemade Windsock Kite:

Thursday | Pool Noodle Ladder Jump:

Friday | Shape Rock Tracing:

Saturday | Bubble Wand Painting:

Sunday | Campfire Handprint Art: brown paper

Save and clean used tin cans. Tape the

Thread a string through the hole and tie

If using acrylic or An adult will likely have Don’t have a washer or

Painting with Sand 1 Collect a pail of sand and add paint to it

3 Wash it off with a hose!

Homemade Windsock Kite 1 Cut two holes on one side of a plastic

3 Run and watch it fly!

Cut two pool noddles into five pieces

Hop from one noodle to the next, lay

3 down and measure how many lines

Shape Rock Tracing 1 Draw different shapes on the sidewalk

CLICK FOR MORE DETAILS

Bubble Wand Painting 1 Tape a piece of paper to a tray and set

3 Use the bubble wand like a paintbrush

Try stamping the side of This activity is about I recommend using

Make three handprints in red, orange

3 Glue torn paper logs to the bottom of the

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