Canada Day Activities for Kids

Celebrate Canada Day by learning more about Canada and doing some Canada themed activities. I’ve already featured Canada in our countries of the world posts, so you can go there are read all about it and come up with more activities from there. We also have a Canada coloring sheet in our nations of the world pack.

Grade Onederful is a Canada-based blog so it has lots of good ideas for celebrating Canada Day in the classroom. I love the idea to go on a walk to collect rocks so each child can build an inuksuk and also draw them (here’s more on inuksuks if you don’t know what they are). They also made paper plate beavers, illustrated the national anthem and more. You’ll find a printable pack in the post as well.

Happy Hooligans is another Canadian blogger with a fun collection of Canada Day crafts. It includes a God’s eye, shaker sticks, wind socks (shown here) and more you could make to celebrate whatever country you want.

Projects with Kids has a sweet printable wand craft for Canada Day with five maple leaf templates kids can cut out and color before making into a wand. They could also be a garland or used in other crafts if you like.

Homemade Heather has a cute Canada themed matching/memory game kids can play again and again.

I love a good sensory bin, and this one from Happy Toddler Playtime uses painted chickpeas in red and white to make a fun base for kids to play with. She also has a cute paper plate Canada flag craft.

If you’re looking for even more Canada themed crafts, East Coast Mommy has a great collection. I love the paper bag beaver puppet project.

More Canada activities:

If it’s hot where you live, you might be looking for some fun activities you can do with kids inside the house. And while bubbles are generally a strictly outside the house kid of activity, these special bubbles are ones you can play with inside. It’s both a lot of fun and a science lesson.

These bubbles aren’t blown into the air, you blow them onto a tabletop gently through a straw.

What’s really cool about them is that they will stay on the table top without popping. You can even blow another bubble inside the first bubble, or stack bubbles on top of each other.

Why does this work? It’s thanks to a special ingredient in the bubble solution: sugar.

This particular recipe is from Play Party Game, but I’m sure you can find it other places with similar ingredients as well. But this post has a good explanation for what is normally happening with regular bubble solution made mostly with just soap and water, as well as why the sugar helps to make bubbles stronger and helps them last longer.

You could make this into a full on science experiment for your kids, comparing regular bubbles (this time you’ll want to do it outside or somewhere easy to clean) to the “unbreakable” bubbles, letting them hypothesize about what ingredients might help make bubbles stronger or what the sugar does to the solution.

You can talk about the molecular structure of the bubble being altered by the sugar, which makes it stronger and longer lasting.

They even have an activity kit you can buy to help guide your explorations and that offers extension activities for you to try.

Or you could just play with them. No judgement here; it’s summertime.

Grab the recipe and more of the science behind the bubbles from Play Party Game. And while you’re playing with bubbles you can also check out my giant bubble solution recipe over at Our Daily Craft.

[Photo: Play Party Game]

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