An At-Home Summer Math Camp to Do with Your Kids

Summer camp and other activities for kids can be really expensive, but just letting kids go feral for the summer months isn’t really recommended, either, for the sake of your sanity and furniture, not to mention their future academic success.

While we might not want to full-on homeschool while the kids are out of school, it’s a great idea to work in a little playful learning to keep their skills up. Which is why this DIY math camp from What Do We Do All Day? is so fantastic.

She has it broken down into activities you can do over the course of six weeks, covering everything from counting to simple math, shapes, patterns and fractions to fun math games. There are printables, craft ideas, even a snack.

Pick out the projects you want to do with your kids or do the whole series.

She also has an eight-week science camp, which has 16 ideas for projects and activities. Definitely enough to keep your kids busy for many days.

How do you keep kids entertained and learning during the summer? I’d love to hear your ideas.

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Looking for more resources? Check out these board games for learning Math and Multiplication?

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Weaving Projects to Make With Kids

Every year at my daughter’s school I think it’s the second or third graders do an activity where they have to disguise a turkey to keep it from being eaten at Thanksgiving. The kids draw the disguise and write a little bit about why they thing that would be an effective way for the turkey to hide. There were some really creative ideas, including one year one was dressed as an eraser for some reason?

If this is an activity you’d like to try with kids in the classroom or at home, check out these turkey in disguise printables to get you started.

If you want to keep it totally basic you can just print out a turkey in disguise coloring sheet like these from The Best Ideas for Kids. There are a few different options kids can use to decorate and they write in what their turkey is disguised as.

My Bored Toddler has a similar printable that just asks what the child will cover the turkey with to hide it. This one would be fun to use in a plastic sleeve or laminated, then you can use it with playdough, cover it with leaves or glass gems or draw on it and use it again.

Easy Peasy and Fun has a paper doll-inspired take on turkey disguises, with printable costumes you can take on and off to hide your turkey quickly. The disguise is attached to the regular turkey with a tab so you can flip it up and down to have a regular turkey or one disguised as a peacock, football player, astronaut and more. This one includes a writing activity so students can explain why they picked the disguise they did and why they think it will work.

Red Ted Art has a set of 12 disguises you can buy (or you can get six random costumes for free) that come in both color and black and white. Kids can just assemble the turkeys or they can color them and then put them together. The set includes a basketball player, pirate, chef, unicorn, mermaid, robot and more. It doesn’t include a writing activity but you could also have kids write about which character they picked and why.

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