Summer is here!

As part of my 101 Days of Summer Fun for Kids series, I wanted to share a simple calendar with my Facebook Fans and Email Subscribers. The first calendar is for preschoolers and early elementary ages! It is based on a weekly theme, and I share one activity per day. To enhance the calendar, you might consider adding one to two number or letter review activities and choose books to read based on the theme each day. The other calendar is just a selection of random activities for kids! Im always looking for simple ideas to do with the girls during the summer, so I thought Id share a few we have tried (or found to try). Pick just one...or try all of these activities! Most importantly, make some memories with your kids this summer!

Stacie

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June 2012
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Theme: Butterflies

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Explore the life cycle of a butterfly with this Caterpillar to Butterfly Craft.

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Eat a Butterfly Lunch.

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Make Butterfly Snack Bags and share with friends.

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Make Scrap Paper Butterflies.

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Celebrate the end of Butterfly Week with Butterfly Cupcakes or a Butterfly Cake!

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Theme: Camping

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Make a tent with sheets and go camping or set up a real tent indoors!

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Add a campfire to your campsite.

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Make Solar Smores

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Create Nature Art.

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Make a Campfire Craft (from Fumbling Through Parenthood).

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Theme: Flowers

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Make Soda Pop Bottle Print Flowers.

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Make Craft Stick Puzzles.

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Make Fruity Flower Snacks.

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Create a Flower Power T-shirt.

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Make a Torn-Paper Flower.

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Theme: Shadows

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Explore shadows with a Shadow Theater.

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Play Shadow Stomp.

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Make a Shadow Ice Cream Treat.

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Play a Shadow Guessing Game.

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Explore shadows in photography.

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MotherhoodOnADime.com

June 2012
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1 Make an easy Super Hero Cape & Mask (from Cheerios & Lattes). 3 Make a Prayer Journal (from Impress Your Kids). 4 Create a huge sidewalk chalk city on your driveway. 5 Not in the mood for messy? Try NoMess Painting from Family Friendly Frugality. 12 Create a Flower Power T-shirt. 6 Make Butterfly Snack Bags and share with friends. 7 Create a Clothesline Busy Bag (with Printables from Money Saving Mom). 8 Print out this fun zoo trivia sheet (from Meet Penny) and head to the zoo! 15 Have an indoor snowball fight.

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2 Set up a tent indoors (or out).

9 Read Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco and make this delicious recipe.

10 Print ABC Bible Verse flashcards (from Homeschool Creations). 17 Make a Soft Words Jar and use it (from Spell Outloud).

11 Make an Outdoor Sticky Collage (from I Can Teach My Child).

13 Make Solar Smores

14 Try this ColorChanging Milk Experiment (from The Frugal Free Gal). 21 Make a bug jar and go on a bug hunt!

16 Go fly a kite! Try one of these kite activities for added fun. 23 Set up your own Outdoor Potion Lab (from Inner Child Fun).

18 19 Hunt down some Make Craft Stick pinecones & make a Puzzles. bird feeder (from Surviving a Teachers Salary). 25 Head outdoors and blow some bubbles with this easy bubble recipe. 26 Make Ice Cream in a Can.

20 Create erupting volcanoes (from Teach Preschool).

22 Head to the pool and bring along some paintbrushes (from I Can Teach My Child). 29 At the beach, make Plaster of Paris Sand Prints (from Balancing Beauty & Bedlam).

24 Go on a Scripture Scavenger Hunt (from Titus 2 Homemaker).

27 Make a Find It Bag (from Meet Penny).

28 Have a Sponge Relay (from The Purposeful Mom).

30 Host a Drive-In Movie Night (from Celebrate Every Day With Me).