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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Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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