Plant a Seed: Summer Reading Kids (2)

Last week, I shared some craft ideas.

This week, I'm sharing some STEAM ideas - all from Pinterest

Host a paint night for kids

Make your own paint brush from nature

Leaf butterflies or any leaf animal

Lemon Volcanos

Sensory Garden Bin

Paint with Vegetables 

Lego Flowers

Dandelion playdough 

Bird Treat

Build a Bug Hotel

Make Plant paints (you can make spice paints too)

Come back next week for some great books for summer reading! 

Plant a Seed: Kids Summer Reading (1)

 This summer, we're doing the Plant a Story, Read for our theme. Mostly because we've done     Dino-vember for years and it's hard to come up with more ideas. Plant a Story seemed easier for us. Right now, we could use a little easy. It's time to start planning.

Here are a few ideas from Pinterest:

Dragonfly Painting

Paper Flowers

More paper flowers

Pipe cleaner flowers

Flowers behind a gate

Sunflower (can also create other flowers and use dotters for the middle)

Flower wreath

Design your own bouquet

Create a nest

Fairy House

Check back next week for more summer reading program ideas! 

Kids Summer Reading (3): Oceans of Possibilities

 

It's another year of uncertainty - will we have in person programs? Will we do a hybrid program?  The crafts are easier to plan because you need the same pieces. 

These program ideas come from Pinterest.

My account

The library's account (which has way more)

Previous posts:

Crafts for Littles and Crafts for Older Kiddos

This week I'm focusing on STEAM projects:

Baking Soda Art:

Moving Octopus:

Ocean Foam Sensory Bin:

Pollution:

Moving Fish or Boat:

Dry Ducks:

Fish Slime:

Save the Penguin:

Stay tuned next week for more ideas!

Kids Summer Reading (2): Ocean of Possibilities

It's another year of uncertainty - will we have in person programs? Will we do a hybrid program?  The crafts are easier to plan because you need the same pieces. 

These program ideas come from Pinterest.

My account

The library's account (which has way more)

Last week's post was crafts for the littles. Check it out here. 

This week I'm sharing some craft ideas for older kids. Last year, we did 3D animals crafts and they went out like hot cakes.  

Yarn Turtles:

Origami Fish:

Fish Bowl:

Crab:

Sea Otter:

Sea Horse:

Kids Summer Reading (1)

It's another year of uncertainty - will we have in person programs? Will we do a hybrid program?  The crafts are easier to plan because you need the same pieces. 

These program ideas come from Pinterest.

My account

The library's account (which has way more)

The following crafts are for the littles:

Fish

Star Fish

Shells

Sea Horses

Turtle

Ocean

Jelly Fish

Octopus

Summer Reading Kids (1)

 

I'm a little late with the planning this year, but I'm starting to look at summer reading programs. This year is ALL about animals.

It's possible to break up the summer into weeks:

Pets

Farm Animals

Zoo

I'm not sure if I'm going be able to do that, but...here are some easy animal crafts for the younger kids - all found on Pinterest.

Snake:

Safari Animals

Farm Animals

Peacock:

Dog Plate