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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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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