Explore the World in a DIY Summer Camp

This is such a fun idea to do with your own kids or your own group of kids during the summer — or really any other time.

Leanna from All Done Monkey shared her ideas for a DIY Around the World Summer Camp on Kid World Citizen, along with the activities for a couple of different countries if you want to do it yourself without all the planning.

The idea was to hit a country on each continent rather than trying to cover a whole continent in a day. She lays out ideas for crafts, geography, snacks, stories and more.

This would be a lot of fun to do if your family’s heritage is a different country from where you currently live, or if there are countries your children are interested in.

It’s also a good guide for a unit study or if you wanted to stretch it out you could do a different country each day and a different continent each week, but that would take a lot more planning.

How do you teach your kids about different countries? I’d love to hear your ideas!

[Photo: All Done Monkey.]

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All About Antarctica for Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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