Summer Survival: Activities for the Wee Beasts

Summer heat got you housebound and crabby? Try these:

Make your own sidewalk chalk. We'll have to try that - we go through the stuff like water.

National Geographic-sponsored Geography site for kids: My Wonderful World.

Make your own Word Search. I made one with all the kids' names and pets names and such - you could make one with all of your child's interests or local place names, too.

Simple Recipes for Kids including special diets (gluten free, vegetarian, etc.)

DLTK's Chore Chart Generator. Ok, this one is fun for moms, maybe not so much for kids. I told the Beastlings that I would give them a penny per check mark at the end of the week and that was enough to motivate them...for at least the first week. That site has a ton of other activities as well - definitely worth checking out.

Summer activities from Activity Village.

Mazes from All Kids Network.

First School: Preschool activities and crafts. A wealth of ideas for the parent and homeschooler.

Kids-R-Crafty: This site offers activity sheets, coloring pages, dot-to-dots, mazes, vocabulary and worksheets in both English and French.

Making Learning Fun: Preschool and early childhood activities and printables to make learning enjoyable for parents and child.

The Crafty Crow, for you advanced as well as beginner crafters.

Enchanted Learning for complete early learning curriculum - absolutely brilliant and HUGE site - if you have small children, you must check it out.


That's my offering for the day - hope it helps. I know with the incredible heat and drought conditions we are currently experiencing, outside play just isn't an option for most of the day and it makes me rather testy and the kids antsy. If only we could install a giant........

WHOA!

THIS is exactly what I need! Who knew someone else had thought of it first?