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Keep your little campers learning and having fun with our Summer Camp Read Aloud!
We have 15 days of crafts, books for reading aloud, and activities that can all be done from home.
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DAY 1
DAY 2
DAY 3
DAY 4
DAY 5
CRAFT
Button Dish
Paper Shark
Friendship Bracelets
Snail Paper Plate
Jellyfish Cupcake
BOOK
Where Do Balloons Go?
An Uplifting Mystery
by Jamie Lee Curtis
Clark the Shark
by Bruce Hale
A Sick Day for
Amos McGee
by Philip C. Stead
The Snail and
the Whale
by Julia Donaldson
The Joyful Jellyfish
by Jamie Bryant
ACTIVITY
Balloon Hockey
Feed the Shark
Balloon Rocket Races
Snail Races
Water Balloon
Towel Catch
DAY 6
DAY 7
DAY 8
DAY 9
DAY 10
CRAFT
Sponge Boats
Bee Habitat
Rock Spiders
Paper Hot Air
Balloon
Popsicle Stick
Farm Animals
BOOK
Lightship
by Brian Floca
Please Please the Bees
by Gerald Kelley
The Very Busy Spider
by Eric Carle
Margret and H. A. Rey’s
Curious George and
the Hot Air Balloon
Click Clack Moo:
Cows That Type
by Doreen Cronin
ACTIVITY
Row Your Boat
Look for bee-friendly
plants on a walk
Spider Web Obstacle
Course
Water Balloon Toss
Animal Charades
DAY 11
DAY 12
DAY 13
DAY 14
DAY 15
CRAFT
God’s Eye
Wind Chimes
Rainstick
Dream Catcher
Paper Bag
Monster Puppets
BOOK
Fry Bread: A Native
American Family Story
by Kevin Noble Maillard
Cloudette
by Tom Lichtenheld
Worm Weather
by Jean Taft
Dream Away
by Julia Durango and
Katie Belle Trupiano
Where the Wild
Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
ACTIVITY
Build a Teepee
Cloud Watching
Drip Drop Rain Dance
Stargazing with Kids
Pin the Eye
on the Monster
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