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Home | Store | Forum | What's New | Contact | About | Terms | Links | Storytime | UNCRC   A list of activities children can enjoy during the summer holidays, have fun with them both inside and out!                     week 1 week 2  week 3  week  4  week 5  week 6 Free printable, six week activity list  boredom busting ideas  plus a   7 day daily activity planner to discover everyones personal ideas Sand clay recipe & holiday memories   Week one   Set up a weaving area with hanging basket orbs! Explore outside and print bug catcher slides to see who, & what's around! Extend by building bambo insect houses in preparation for the autumn & winter   Make playdough - play frogs and story tell with Parrot Squawk Extend with a paddling pool filled with bubble pots, coins and beads   Collage and eat fluffy clouds! on amazon.co.uk + cloud craft outline Extend by seeing the different tyes of cloud and making a rain guage   Have a bear, bee and honey sandwich day  - Where there's trouble there's a bear Extend by crafting bee hives using a bee hive outline, bubble wrap and yellow paint!   Print flags, add them to sand pit activities and number rhyme with shells Extend by exploring fossil craft activities                Bake some chocolate chip cookies Extend by by visiting a vegan website and finding out how to make yummy recipes free of animal by-products. Second week Blend paint to build an ocean of dolphins Extend by finding how many types of dolphin there are. Draw & play hopscotch or hop skip growl! Extend by making your own chalk Grow cress in paper pots - pot maker Extend by making personalised paper pot labels Thread bottle lids to make caterpillar characters Extend with  butterfly craft activity  Freeze wet bath scrunchies on a tray and then put outside for play Extend by moving n to use the scrunchies as paint dabbers Launch plant pot rockets covered in aluminium foil     Extend by making a galaxian background with a black cotton sheet, stars & planets  Make fingerprint ID bracelets using clay and  waxed cord Extend by role playing forensic scientists, secret agents, and have a list of secret spy agent mission ideas - Playmobil's range of Top Agent toys Third, week 3   Paint keys  - Extend by gifting a persoanlised keyring     Fold paper fortune tellers - Extend by researching origami   Make shadow sundials  - Extend by printing suns for collage   Roll out snail shells  - Extend by looking at snails that live on land and snails that live in water.   Draw garden plans - Extend by talking about what everyone would like to see in the garden or outdoor play area.   Put suns on water - Extend by putting mirrors in the water and exlore rippled reflections   A sunflower activity idea - Extend by baking seed cookies Week 4 Make lemonade - on guardian.co.uk  Extend by adding lemon zest to dough Float messages in bottles - Extend with a game of bottle skittles Fold windmills and fly kites  - Extend by researching wind socks Paint branches & sticks - Extend by performing a show Fill balloons with dough! - Extend by roll a conversation dice! Build a volcano  - Extend by reading dinosaur books Collage to hide a duck - Extend by planning a lucky dip game Week 5     Decorate a room with paper chains and wrist watches! - Extend by finding a tree that can be decorated for the summer!   Race ducks in water trays with paper folded boats  - Extend by using bellows and the force of wind     Design and collage fill levels in these container outlines  - Extend by using scales to explore words associated with weight and measurement   Cut lanterns and fill with light - battery candles on amazon.co.uk - Extend by playing with torches in a blackened tent   Rainbow streamers decorate, weave & wave inside & out, around chairs or fence posts Extend by researching and planning a paper chase game   Playdough flowers and plant pot mats - Extend by collecting real flowers, herbs, leaves and grass to add to the dough   Cold cool putty recipe - PVA glue and borax on amazon.co.uk - Extend by adding small media to the putty - glitter and sequins Week 6   Use drain pipes, number rhyme with a bunch of hairy spiders, an incey Extend with an wincey spider rhyme and a tunnel race using with small cars - buy vehicles   Drive cars through paint and checkout the marks they make - Extend by taking tracking skills outside .. bear search   Play cup & ball - wikipedia  google images paper cup, string & tissue/ping pong ball Extend by finding yo-yos, diablo sets and juggling balls ..   Hang sticky tape strips on a wall and attach collage items such as sequins, small gems, paper & foam cutouts Extend by playing with sticker books - print your own on full A4 sized sticky back paper   Melt crayon shavings and glitter between tracing paper sheets with a hot/warm ironing, let the paper cool a little, then peel off, lay flat until cold and hang in front of a window to make sun catchers  Extend by taking whole crayons outside to make rubbings on paper on concrete, tarmac, tree branches   Blow bubbles with own wand designs and recipe    Extend by filling a ball pool and diving in ...   Frame your name - decorate & celebrate - google image search    Extend by playing a card game of families     Enjoy a suncream safety rhyme & look for summer paper dolls - google search Extend by by finding out about the care we need to give our skin - preventing skin cancer  Summer activities from the store Summer outlines   Clover leaf activities Paw print jungle