Purpose:
Help children appreciate the summer sun by experiencing fun outdoors activities.
Materials:
1. paper
2. glue
3. paper baking cup
4. crayons/markers
5. pail or bucket
Learning Activities:
1. Read a book that focuses on summer/vacations, etc. (We read "The Berenstain Bears Go On Vacation" by Stan and Jan Berenstain. ) Talk about the activities in the book (fishing, going to the ocean, hiking, swimming, enjoying the sunshine, etc.) and how these are some things you can do in the summer.
2. Go on a mini "vacation" to the park, taking along your pail or bucket. Let you child play and enjoy exploring the outdoors. Collect some sand and grass in your pail and bring it home.
3. Sing some of the sunshine/summer songs you've been learning this week.
4. Make a summer scene picture to help your child remember some of the fun, outdoor activities made possible by the sun.
Summer Scene:
Give your child a piece of blue paper and a paper baking cup. Make a circle of glue on the top of the paper and have your child flatten out the baking cup and glue it on the paper. (We colored ours to look like a sun since we didn't have the yellow one.)
Put some glue along the bottom of the paper and sprinkle on the sand and grass you collected from the park.
Have your child draw a few circles above the grass and turn them into flowers.
Conclusion:
Talk about how the sun helps the plants to grow and helps provide us a beautiful place to play.
Extensions:
Give your child a sun coloring page.
Review the words of the week.
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