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Today is an extra special post for Share it Saturday. Sugar Aunts & I have complied 60 Screen-Free Rainy Day Summer Activities to keep kids busy this summer. This is for those days that it is raining, or just too hot to go outside. This list of ideas is sure to keep your kids from telling you how bored they are! These are all wonderful ideas shared on Share It Saturday from bloggers we love.
Peanut Life Adventures: Create a summer bucket list
Tots and Me: Butterfly play theme
Sugar Aunts: Ice letter muffins
Howling At The Moon: Make a Clay Cat
Teach Beside Me: Fabric Hopscotch
Gummylump: Make a theater and Finger puppets
Peanut Life Adventures: Bake Cookies
Little Bins for Little Hands: Create a whale and water themed sensory bin
Bible Fun For Kids: Study Creation
The Measured Mom: Make a Mini-book
The Measured Mom: Explore printables with your emergent reader
Sugar Aunts: Make a rainbow sensory bin (three ideas)
Fantastic Fun and Learning: Create an edible small world zoo
Mama to 5 Blessings: Create a knight’s castle
Fantastic Fun and Learning: Read a book and play activities along with the book’s theme
Little Bins for Little Hands: Make a red, white, and blue sensory bin
Teach Beside Me: Summer Boredom Busters
Gift of Curiosity: Learn about ladybugs
Mama to 5 Blessings: Create and Organize a dress-up area
Life With Moore Babies: Make a solar oven in a shoe box
Save it for a sunny day 🙂
Preschool Powol Packets: Make a popsicle stick airplane
B-Inspired Mama: Play cleaning games with the kids
Teach Beside Me: Make a straw rocket
Weekly Kids Co-Op: Make toys
Gift of Curiosity: Learn about insect anatomy
Sugar Aunts: Make a real-toy “I Spy” game
Wildflower Ramblings: Create a sensory bin
Buggy and Buddy: Make a spirit wand
Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails: Make a Parrot handprint
Coffee With Us 3: Fine Motor Bean Craft
No Doubt Learning: Strawberry Clip Math Activity
School Time Snippets: Start a math journal
Sorting Sprinkles: Play pirate activities
Teach Beside Me: Make a roller coaster board game
Crafty Journal: Make a DIY foam flier
Sugar Aunts: Work on learning body parts through imagination play
Stir the Wonder: Paint with feathers
Buggy and Buddy: Create spin art
Toddling in the Fast Lane: Make a bird of paradise
Best Children’s Games: Play with building blocks
Campfires and Cleats: Make balloon animals
Craftulate: Make a shape matching game
Fun-A-Day: Bring a book to life
Sugar Aunts: Use stickers to work on scissor skills
Domesticated Breakdown: Make a rock friend
Teach Beside Me: Create a rainbow collage
The Magnolia Barn: Make a ladybug craft
He Cares for You: Make a crayon resist project
Play Learn Love: Try fluff painting
Rubber Boots and Elf Shoes: Make a dinosaur sensory bin
Crafts and Art for Children: Make an earth-friendly craft
Sugar Bee Learning Make a cardboard car
Fluster Buster: Make banana ice cream
The Pinay Homeschooler: Learn about plants
Fun-A-Day: Make fizzy letters
Sugar Aunts: Create a DIY light box
Big Energy Little Learners: Paint the Rain
Moments A Day: Make a placemat to learn manners
Moms Have Questions Too: Match the font cut and paste activity
And Next Comes L: Create a greeting card collage
Shaunna Evans says
June 15, 2013 at 11:41 amWhat a fun collection of ideas! Thank you for including our edible zoo and book activities.
Hannah White says
June 15, 2013 at 12:15 pmThansk for hosting! What great fun!
Mary Catherine says
June 15, 2013 at 8:50 pmA great set up of ideas for the summer! Thanks for including my icy, fizzy letters, and thanks for including Positive Parenting Connection’s guest post about book activities. Hope your weekend is going well. 🙂
Chris says
June 15, 2013 at 10:05 pmThank you so much for hosting! Your site is awesome and I love your ideas!
So happy I found you!!
Have a great weekend!
God bless!
Chelsey says
June 16, 2013 at 5:54 amWow! So many fun ideas! Thank you so much for sharing our patriotic wands and Housing a Forest’s watercolor spin art guest post on Buggy and Buddy !
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Judy POFH says
June 17, 2013 at 10:26 amHi Karyn,
Thank you for hosting a great party.
Judy
Pursuit Of Functional Home.
Kristen says
June 19, 2013 at 6:24 pmLove the screen-free round up. I would love it if you would come link up at Artsy Play Wednesday kids’ craft linky.
http://www.babygiveawaysgalore.com/2013/06/artsy-play-wednesday-kids-craft-linky_19.html
Carla at Preschool Powol Packets says
June 20, 2013 at 8:23 pmI love this list–there are so many fabulous ideas on it!! I feel so honored to be included! I’m going to share this on my PreschoolPowolPackets Facebook page–thanks so much for linking up at Teach Me Tuesday at Preschool Powol Packets!!
Robin Buster says
June 25, 2013 at 2:48 amGreat list! Thank you for sharing my Banana Ice Cream and for coming by and sharing this post at Fluster’s Creative Muster Party.
Hugs,
Robin @ Fluster Buster
Hannah White says
June 25, 2013 at 6:18 pmSo many great ideas! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Eco-Kids Tuesday! I hope you join us again today! http://likemamalikedaughter.blogspot.com/2013/06/eco-kids-tuesday_25.html
Janis Cox says
October 18, 2013 at 11:30 amThanks for linking my Crayon Resist Turtle picture.
Blessings,
Janis http://www.janiscox.com