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Fun-in-the-Sun Activities

Fun-in-the-Sun Activities

Take learning on the road or makes discoveries right in your backyard. These ideas will help your child explore, learn, and play all summer long.

Thinking While it's Hot

Going Places
Let our guide make your next family vacation the real deal!
6 Ways to Combine Summer Fun and Learning
Learn 6 ways to combine summer fun and learning.
5 Ways to Celebrate the End of the School Year
Make the last few weeks before school lets out a fun, fantastic time for you and your child with these five smile-inducing ideas.
Lemonade Stand
Uncover the math learning opportunities of this classic summer activity.
All Around Your Town
Plan field trips that are close to home, cost little, and instill civic pride.
There's Nothing to Do
Making plans for your tween is a summer essential.

Reading and Writing

Get to Know an Author
Try this super summer reading project: study an author who celebrates a summer birthday.
School's Out, Reading Is In!
Summer’s leisurely pace is a hot time to build your child’s interest in books. Here’s how to do it.
Summer Writing
Three easy activities build writing skills now and prepare your child for school this fall.

Recipes

Summer Dip
Cook up some summer fun with this fruity, bright pink treat!
Freeze and Eat Treats
by Ellen Church
Teach science with these tasty, fruity concoctions.
Ice Age
by Ellen Church
Our frosty frozen fruit treats are a refreshing snack and a super science experiment.

Science and Nature

Catch the Wind
Whoosh! This great craft will teach your child the power of a summer breeze.
Natural Learning
by Mary Rivkin, PhD
Guide your child’s curiosity outdoors and open up a love of science.
Think Outside the Sand Box
Kids love digging holes and building castles with sand, but this ancient play stuff is packed with possibilities that go beyond the pail.
Celebrate Summer by Learning With the Senses
by Ellen Church
Keep learning all season by heading outdoors into nature's classroom.
Take It on the Road
Get going with these easy, creative ideas for fun and educational family field trips.

Arts and Crafts

Easy, Breezy Joy
Make the most of the season with our pretty and playful crafts.
A Summer Scrapbook
Chronicle vacation days and create a book of warm memories to share in any season.
Stained Glass
Bring the summer sun indoors with this colorful craft.
Thirsty for More
Easy and inventive ways to make awesome items out of empty water bottles
Outdoors-In Crafts
by Ellen Church
Finders keepers: Everything your child needs for art and science projects is at his fingertips.
Squish, Squeeze, and Squirt
Three recipes for playful, pliable summer learning fun

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