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Sports Day - Enjoy the warm weather with a "Sports
Day." Children can wear t-shirts and hats from their
favorite team. Have balls, riding toys, hula-hoops, jump ropes
and other play equipment available. Brooms and balls are fun
for field hockey. Plastic drink bottles can be used for bowling.
Let children make bike paths and street signs with chalk on
the sidewalk. Stress the value of exercise and having fun
together, rather than winning. Sing songs and read stories
outside, and enjoy the snack below:
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Power Mix - Mix Cheerios, nuts, raisins, pretzel sticks, cheese crackers, and M&Ms together. Serve in a flat-bottom ice cream cone. Children can eat the mix and the cone so there's no mess! |
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Mother's Day - Let children dip their foot in yellow paint, then apply it to a piece of paper. (If you put paper towels in a pie pan and add a small amount of paint it won't be as messy. You can also just have them trace around their foot on yellow paper and cut it out.) Use the heel of the foot as the chick's head by adding a beak and eyes. Let the children draw legs from the bottom of the chicken where their toes are. Add this poem and a construction paper frame to make a precious gift:
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Time Bottle - Create a memento of the year with a time capsule. Ask each child to bring in a plastic bottle. Have children draw a picture of themselves and put it in the bottle. Let them write or dictate what they want to be when they grow up and illustrate it. Challenge them to collect a wrapper from their favorite food, something their favorite color, friends' signatures, and other small, meaningful objects to add to their bottles. After gluing on the lid and decorating the outside, send the bottles home with a note to the parents asking them to save the bottles until their child graduates from high school. |
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"Fun-Shine"
Can - Have each child bring in a Pringle's can
or similar can with a lid. Let them decorate the outside with
construction paper and pictures. Brainstorm fun things they
can do in the summer, such as read a book, call a friend,
write a letter, play a board game, say a rhyme, cook something,
make a paper bag puppet, bounce a ball, sing a song, play
dress up, make up a dance, draw a picture, and so forth. Fold
pieces of paper into eighths. Write one of the children's
ideas in each section. (It would be good if they had 3 or
4 pages of ideas.) Run off copies for each child then let
them cut the strips apart and put them in their can. Tell
them when they get bored on their summer vacation, they can
pull a strip from the can for a "fun-shine" idea!
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