This is a sample of activities I use in the kids activities planner for the week.
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In each week for the activities planners, I try to include:
- a gross motor activity
- a fine motor activity
- a craft
- an art project
- an outdoor activity
- an experiment or something to get them thinking
- a family activity for Sunday
Monday: Make a classic craft, such as this bird feeder
What’s needed:
- O-shaped cereal [Cheerios, Fruit Loops]
- Yarn or string
Click to see our classic bird feeder craft
Tuesday: Get active with a sticky spider web
What’s needed:
- painter’s tape
- newspaper
Click to see how make our sticky spider web
Wednesday: Make some wind chimes
What’s needed:
- tin cans
- paint [we used Crayola washable paints]
- glitter
- yarn
- painter’s tape
- washers
- hammer
Click to see how made our own wind chimes
Thursday: Draw in an odd spot
What’s needed:
- Paper [we use butcher paper]
- Painter’s tape
- drawing utensils [markers, crayons, etc]
Click to see where we’ve created art
Friday: Go on a nature scavenger hunt!
What’s needed:
- basket
- nature!
Click to see how we went on a nature scavenger hunt
Saturday: Make a lava lamp!
What’s needed:
- clear bottles [glass or plastic]
- water
- oil [the clearer the better]
- Alka Selzer tablets [the more the better]
- food coloring
Click to see how we made our own lava lamps