Summer Activities Kit
Download these activities to supplement your summer meals program
Here you will find hundreds of activities to plan and implement with kids and teens to help make you summer meal site a fun and exciting place to be.
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Arts & Crafts Activities:
- Craft Stick Bookmark, K-12th
- Easy Soap Making For Kids, K-12th
- Explorer Binoculars, K-12th
- Mailable Hugs, K-12th
- Ocean In A Bottle, K-12th
- Raised Sea Salt Painting, K-12th
- Recycled Crayons, K-12th
- Black and White Crayon Resist, K-12th
- Footprint Penguin, K-12th
- Bubble Wands, K-12th
- Super Bubbles, K-12th
- Fourth of July Noisemakers, K-12th
- Summer Memories Book, K-12th
- Apple Stamped Butterflies, K-12th
- Toilet Paper Owls, K-12th
- Dancing Ribbons, K-12th
- Gel Boards, K-12th
- Kool-Aid Play Dough, K-12th
- Pirate Ship, K-12th
- Felt Flowers, K-12th
Literacy Activities:
Kindergarten – 3rd Grade Level activities
- Introduction & Assessments
- Assessments:
- K-1 Learning Letters
- K-1 Letters-Sound Matching
- K-1 Say & Write Letters
- K-1 Rhyming
- K-1 Sound Blending
- K-1 Syllables
- K-1 High Frequency Words
- 2-3 Letters-Sound Matching
- 2-3 Learning Phonemes
- 2-3 Varient Correspondences
- 2-3 Syllables
- 2-3 Phrases
- 2-3 Chunked Text
- 2-3 High Frequency Words
4th – 6th Grade Level Activities:
- Introduction
- Assessment Reporting Sheet
- Assessments:
- 4-5 Variant Correspondences
- 4-5 Syllables
- 4-5 Morphemes
- 4-5 Word Meaning and Analysis
- 4-5 High Frequency Words
- 4-5 Phrases
- 4-5 Chunked Text
- 4-5 Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homographs
- 4-5 Reading Comprehension
- 6th Grade Reading Passages
- Introduction
- A Strong Motive
- A Life Defined Not By Disability, But Love
- A God Who Remembers
- After 30 Years of Surgeries, Doctor and Patient Dance
- For A Boy With Little, Learning to love a Castoff Trombone
- Generosity
- I am Still the Greatest
- I Dream’d in a Dream
- I’m Nobody! Who are You
- The Ant and the Dove
- The Learning Curve of Gratitude
- The Crow and the Pitcher
- Print Your Own Medicine
- The Elephant and the Crocodile
- Outwitting Himself
- The Farmer and the Snake
- Song of the Witches
- Saying Thanks to My Ghosts
- Stars of the Summer Night
- The Farmer and the Stork
- The Soul of the Sea
- The Spider and the Fly
- When Mom is Right, And Tells Police They’re Wrong
- When You Are Old
Physical Activities:
- Freeze Tag, K-12th
- Everyone’s It, K-12th
- Cookie Jar, K-12th
- Red Light, Green Light
- Ro Sham Bo Relay, K-12th
- Band Aid Tag, K-12th
- Blob Tag, K-12th
- Chair Tag, K-12th
- Bubbles, K-12th
- Minute Masters, K-12th
- Alligator Swamp, K-12th
- Bird’s Nest, K-12th
- Continues Relays, K-12th
- Dance Freeze, K-12th
- Drop the Cookie!, K-12th
- Four Corners, K-12th
- Eagle and the Mouse, K-12th
- Heads or Tail, K-12th
- Joey Roundup, K-12th
- Odds and Evens Tag, K-12th
STEM Activities:
- All About Energy, K-3rd
- Conductors and Insulators, K-3rd
- Electric Energy, K-3rd
- Energy Super Saver, K-3rd
- Natural Gas, K-3rd
- Solar Power, K-3rd
- Wild About Water, K-3rd
- Wind Is Air In Motion, K-3rd
- What’s Its All About Sun Power, K-3rd
- Let’s Explore History, K-3rd
- Animated Flip Books, 4th-6th
- Back in the Grove, 4th-6th
- Ballooning Universe, 4th-6th
- Beads of Knowledge, 4th-6th
- Bernoulli or Not, 4th-6th
- Bottle Racer, 4th-6th
- Bottle Stand Up, 4th-6th
- Camouflage, 4th-6th
- Cap Maracas, 4th-6th
- Catapult, 4th-6th
- Attribute Sudoku, 7th-8th
- Baby It’s Cold Outside, 7th-8th
- Balloon Moon, 7th-8th
- Better Wind Vane, 7th-8th
- Bubble Lenses, 7th-8th
- Café Wall Illusion, 7th-8th
- Chewed Food, 7th-8th
- Drop In A Little Bucket, 7th-8th
- Fabric of the Universe, 7th-8th
- Feel the Heat, 7th-8th
- Acid or Base, 9th-12th
- Be Prepared, 9th-12th
- Biodiversity, 9th-12th
- Breathe In Breathe Out, 9th-12th
- Catching Your Breathe, 9th-12th
- Dinosaur Name Game, 9th-12th
- Holding The Moon In Your Hand, 9th-12th
- Model Apple, 9th-12th
- Static Electricity, 9th-12th
- Still Water, 9th-12th
Nutrition Activities:
- Colors for Lunch, 5 food groups
- Hot Potato, 5 food groups
- Loopy Laps, 5 food groups
- Lunch Moves, 5 food groups
- Lunch Scramble, 5 food groups
- Red Light, Green Light, 5 food groups
- Sandwich Stack, 5 food groups
- Story Time, 5 food groups
- Sugar Hop, 5 food groups
- Simon Says, 5 food groups
- Foods on Five, 5 food groups
- Fruit Kebob Tag, 5 food groups
- Beanbag Toss, 5 food groups
- Healthy Heartbeat, 5 food groups
- Pasta Weave, 5 food groups
- Soul Train, 5 food groups
- Fast Food to Go Food, 5 food groups
- Boost Brain Power, 5 Food Groups
- How Much Do I need, 2 food groups
- Warm Up for Power, 2 food groups
- Power Tag, 2 food groups
- Memory Ball, 2 food groups
- Fruit & Veggie Name Game, 2 food groups
- Rainbow Mysteries, 2 food groups
- Grab the Flag, 2 groups
- Color Tag, 2 food groups
- Memory Movement, 2 food groups
- Fixin’ Fruits & Veggies, 2 food groups
- Grow Your Own, 2 food groups
- Taste It, 2 food groups
- Advertising Power, 2 food groups
- Powerful Art, 2 food groups
- Vegetable Scramble, 2 food groups
- Color My Plate, 2 food groups
- Vegetable Soup, 1 food groups
- Cheddar, Cheddar, Cheese!, 1 food groups
- Wheat, Barley, Rye, Go!, 1 food groups
- Eat the Rainbow, 1 food groups
- Fruit Scramble, 1 food groups
Other Resources:
Arts & Crafts
Macronikids
Pinterest
All Crafts
Craftster
Crayola Crafts
Chocolate Muffin Tree
Chalk In My Pocket
Childhood 101
Physical Activity
PE Central
Get Active! Let’s Move!
Learn To Be Healthy
Exercise, Fitness & Nutrition for Teachers
Healthy Kids
Action for Healthy Kids
California Department of Public Health
California Department of Education
STEm
RAFT Sacramento
Softschools
Science Bob
NASA Kids’ Club
PBS KIDS
STEM Works
Project Lead The Way
STEM Activities for Kids
Nutrition
Dairy Council of California
U.S. Department of Public Health
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education
Nourish Interactive
Healthy Kids Challenge
Community Youth & Organization Idea & Resource Kit
Sodexo USA
View our Pinterest page for additional activities and resources.
View other activities provided by Diary Council of CA
- Healthy Snacking Tipsheet – English
- Healthy Snacking Tipsheet – Spanish
- Portion Serving Size Chart -English
- Portion Serving Size Chart – Spanish
- Eat Well Be Active – English
- Eat Well Be Active – Spanish
- Dairy in the Classroom
- Ice-cream in the Classroom
- Why You Need Milk
- Build A Pizza
- Dairy Council of California Summer Meals Resources