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Summer Camp Activities with Camp Games, Scavenger Hunts

Summer Camp Activities

Summer camp activities can be more than just for camp. Explore the outdoors at home with free printables and activities to get the kids moving. If they’re heading off to camp print these summer camp activities before they head off.

Start off with printing and completing the Summer Camp Packing Checklist. Make sure you have all the items packed for summer camp fun, because you don’t want to forget some of the most important items . Print off some games before you head off to camp or the cottage for rainy days to help keep the kids entertained. When the weather is good, get the kids moving with scavenger hunt games.

Don’t forget to print the Summer Camp Journal for the kids to record all their fun activities to share. Challenge the kids with their writing skills where they can write about fun camping activities in these Summer Campground Journals. After the kids write about their activities, they can rate them by filling in the little hearts under each activity. Kids can draw a picture or paste a photo of their new friends to complete the journals.

There’s printable beauty and makeup sketch girls to complete when the girls have idle time. The Kids can hang up some fun Camp Bed Post Hangers on their bed posts.

The campground instructors can remind the kids about the campground rules with the Campground Rules Poster pinned up.

Scavenger Hunts

Fun Scavenger Hunt games for the campers to get them moving. Start off with the Camp Scavenger Hunt Game where all the campers look around the camp for items that they check off the scavenger list. Most importantly, campers can work in groups or as single scavengers. See who can find all the items first.

Get the kids hunting for bugs and record each bug detail on the Bug Catching Explorer Activity sheet. Bring the campers on a Bird Watching Expedition and have them record all the details on the birds they saw with the Bird Watching Explorer Activity. Have the campers admire the wild flowers that grow around the campground and in the forest with the Flower Explorer Activity. Kids will certainly learn so much from just exploring nature and its beautiful surroundings.

summer camp activities with scavenger hunt

Keep your phone or tablet handy with this fun Camp Scavenger Hunt with QR Codes game. Just scan using a QR code reader and try to find the image it displays. Cross off each QR Code and write in each box what item it is.

Camp scavenger hunt with qr codes to scan and items to find outdoors

Above all, keep the kids learning and entertained with Summer Camp Activities. These activities and printables can enhance kids exploration and help them learn more about nature.

Summer Fun Recipes, Sidewalk Chalk, Paint and Bubbles Recipes

Summer fun recipes with the kids outdoors is what summer is all about. Try our outdoor summer fun recipes with bubbles, chalk and paint recipes you can make with the kids.

Kids can learn the science behind making sidewalk chalk and paint. Make multi-colored chalk that’s cool to use. Create different colored paints and use paint brushes and rollers to help paint the driveway with works of art.

Can’t get enough of bubbles during the summer with kids. Make easy bubbles that will last with this fun bubble recipe. Make different colors for fun bubbles and use things around the house to create your own bubble blowers.

DIY Bubbles for Fun in the Sun

Try this fun bubbles recipe to make your own colored bubbles. All you need is liquid dish washing soap, water, sugar and food coloring. For added fun you can make your own bubble blowers using pipe cleaners. Try making different sizes for small and large bubbles.

summer fun recipes with make your own bubbles recipe

DIY Sidewalk Chalk Summer Fun Recipe

Ever thinking of making your own chalk with the kids? Try this at home using simple ingredients like plaster of paris, water, tempera paint, plastic gloves, containers to make the molds, wax paper. Don’t forget to read all safety instructions on package (plaster of paris) before mixing. Make as many different colors of chalk you want. When your chalk is ready to test, try on a chalk board or driveway.

DIY Sidewalk Paint

This easy to make sidewalk paint is great for the little artist. Use simple ingredients such as cornstarch, water and food coloring to make the perfect colors. Use paint brushes and rollers for fun designs. Don’t forget to take a picture of the work of art!

sidewalk paint recipe with pictures of paint brushes, paint and paint roller.

Find these and more summer recipes. Make friendship dough, print a camp scavenger hunt, summer journal or sit and relax with puzzles, crosswords, mazes and coloring pages.

Summer Coloring, Sun, Beach, Swimming, Doodles

Kids Summer Coloring pages for those rainy days or while traveling abroad. Keep the kids entertained with a variety of fun summer coloring pages that are free and easy to print. Summer coloring is a great way to keep the kids busy while mom or dad need a break or the kids need some quiet time after a busy day. Choose from silly suns, fun at the beach, scuba swimming, tricky skateboarding, summer doodles or just fun in the sun coloring. Read below for more ways to use summer coloring pages.

Summer Coloring with Sun, Beach and Swimming Pages

Sun Coloring

Can’t head to the beach or go outside during those hot summer days? Try some fun in the sun coloring pages from kidscanhavefun.com. Cute and fun sun pictures with many different pictures to choose from. Sun pictures with smiling faces, sad faces, suns with hats, suns with glasses, sun with rainbow, sun with clouds and just silly suns. These sunny pictures will make the kids laugh.

Beach Coloring

Kids can think cool thoughts with these fun beach coloring pictures. Color pictures of kids playing in the sand, playing on the beach. There’s a beached watermelon enjoying a refreshment while laying in the sun!

Swimming Coloring

Fun swimming coloring pages to add some color to scuba dog, girl with duck swimming ring and boy scuba diver.

Skateboard Coloring

Color some skateboarders this summer performing their tricks. Have you ever seen a gorilla skateboarder?

Fun in the Sun Coloring

For those everyday fun in the sun coloring days choose from a girl blowing bubbles, picking flowers or watering flowers. This picture has a lazy summer day with a boy laying in a field of flowers.

Doodle Coloring

Keep the kids coloring with these fun Summer Coloring Doodles. Choose from summer fruit doodles, sunny days, kids summertime fun, summer bugs and weather characters.

Print all the summer doodles and put together as a coloring book for travel or dining out. Fun doodles to color on those hot summer days when you just can’t leave the house.

Fun Ways to Color

Crayons are a great way to color but there are other fun ways too. Try using paint, watercolors, color pastels as well as colored pencils. Kids can mix up their paints to make exciting new colors. Print our color wheel activity to help them learn what colors make new colors.

Have the kids color a few pictures and then cut and paste them onto a summer scene that they want to create.

Ask the kids what different ways they think that pictures can be colored.

Fathers Day Activities, Breakfast in Bed, Dad Games, Letters to Dad

Surprise dad with Fathers Day Activities and Printables just for him. Wrap up Father’s Day Coupons that can only be used by dad and start his day off right with Breakfast in Bed Ideas. Make dad a Shirt and Tie card with a special message from the kids. Play the Tie Wheel Game that the whole family can play.

Fathers Day with Breakfast in Bed Ideas

Start the day off right with Fathers Day breakfast in Bed printables. Choose from placemats, cup wrappers and coasters for dad with golf balls and shirt tie graphics. Dad will be touched with this special message placemat, cup wrappers and drink coasters with special words for dad.

fathers day activities, breakfast in bed for dad placemat — Fathers Day Activities Message Placemat

Fathers Day with Dad Games

Dad will enjoy the Tie Wheel Game you put together. Have dad spin the wheel and find out what activity he can enjoy for the day. You might be surprised! Print fun Fathers Day Mazes for Dad in the shape of “Father” or “Dad”. Learn more about Dads with the Fathers Day Crossword Puzzle and Word Search Puzzle.

Fathers day tie wheel game — Fathers Day Tie Wheel Game

Fathers Day with Letters to Dad

Write a thought to dad with these Dad writing papers. Choose from Letter to Dad from Girl or Letter to Dad from Boy. Give dad some ruled paper he can use everyday to write his thoughts or messages down.

Find DIY Dad Crafts and more fun Father’s Day Activities for Dad.

Fathers Day Printables, Dad Coupons, Dad Awards, T-Shirts for Dad

Fathers Day Printables with homemade coupons for dad, Best Dad Awards, t-shirt designs just for dad that can be ironed on shirts, bags, pillow-cases and more. We have a variety of fun door hangers for dad. Show dad how proud you are with “Best Dad” Awards you print and frame. Dad will love these stickers you print and post around the home, tape on mugs, pencils, lunch bags and whatever you can find to show dad how much you appreciate him on Fathers Day.

Fathers Day Dad Coupons

Dad will love receiving these special homemade coupons. The kids can reward dad with a variety of coupons they print and staple for Fathers Day. Dad can choose from a variety of coupons such as a “Night Without the Kids”, “A Day of Golf “, “Helping Hand for any Chore”, “You and Me Time”, “A Day of Fishing”, “A Special Surprise” and more fun coupons the kids will enjoy sharing with dad.

Fathers Day with T-Shirts for Dad

Print one of our Fathers Day Iron-on Designs and make a shirt for dad. Choose from mustache designs, “Dad I Mustache You a Question” and “Happy Fathers Day Mustache Dad”. Print dad a Tie iron-on design that resembles a t-shirt and tie.

Fathers Day with Dad Awards

Show dad how proud you are of him with “Best Dad” Certificate and “No 1 Dad” Award. Put them in a frame and wrap them up for dad. Don’t forget to sign and date them.

Fathers Day with Fun Door Hangers

Fun Fathers Day door hangers to print and share with dad. Choose from a variety of door hangers such as “Out Golfing for Fathers Day!”, “Dad’s Day Out, Fathers Day!”, “Dad at Work, Do Not Disturb!” and “Do Not Disturb!, Dads Sleeping”.

Father's Day Golf Door Hanger — Fathers Day Golfing Door Hanger

Fathers Day Printables for the kids to share with dad!

Fathers Day Crafts, Homemade Gift Ideas, Gardening Crafts

Treat dad with special homemade gifts you print and make from our Fathers Day Crafts ideas. Wrap up some special treats for dad with Fathers Day candy wrappers and treat labels. Help dad complete his garden with our printable gardening crafts that are easy to make and do. Dad will love these Barbecue Recipe cards that you can put together with some special recipes of your own.

Fathers Day Crafts

Make dad a Fathers Day Tie he can clip on his shirt. Just print, color and wrap it up for dad. Put some special Tie bottle tags with Fathers day messages that can hang on dads favorite soda bottles. Print our Fathers Day Barbecue Recipe cards for dad. Write out some of dad’s favorite recipes or create your own and staple them together with blank recipe cards. Tie a ribbon around it and give it to dad.

Fathers Day Crafts with Candy Labels

Give dad a special treat this fathers day with Fathers Day Candy wrappers. Choose from a variety of Candy Bar Wrappers such as a Tie Candy Bar Wrapper where you write a special message or draw a picture. A Special Message Candy Bar Wrapper just for dad or a Hugs and Kisses Mustache Candy Bar Wrapper. Put some of dad’s favorite candy or chocolates in a candy bag and seal it with a Fathers day tie candy bag topper. Print one of our Tie or golf ball treat toppers to place on muffins, cupcakes or special desserts just for dad.

Happy Fathers Day Candy Bar Wrapper with mustache

Fathers Day Gardening Ideas

Help dad complete his garden with Garden Stakes and seek packets. Easy to make gardening crafts with vegetable, fruit and herb stakes as well as vegetable and fruit seed packets. Print ones ready-made or color your own to make it extra special for dad.

Make a Fathers Day Craft for dad and surprise him. It’s something dad will cherish.

Graduation Printables, End of School Students and Teachers

Graduation Diplomas for School

Graduation Printables are a great way to show the kids that you are proud of them for completing another year of school. For the preschool and kindergarten graduates help celebrate with Graduation Diplomas. Frame a diploma and surprise them with it when they arrive home from their last day school. Teachers can hand out these diplomas to the students in their class to show mom and dad.

2023 blue graduation diploma with an owl wearing a grad hat and holding a pointer stick. — 2023 Graduation Diploma for Kindergarten

End of School Year Coloring Pages

Teachers and parents can hand out coloring pages for the little graduates moving on to a new grade. Don’t forget to include their completed coloring pages into a scrapbook or memory book.

Teachers can use these coloring pages as well to teach the students the different colors. On the bottom of the coloring page make small color circles for the colors that you want the students to use. Beside each circle write down a number. On the picture use a pencil to write down the color number for each part of the picture. Have the students show you their work.

Graduation Party Printables

Congratulate the kids with completing another year of school by decorating the table with graduation party printables. Bake cupcakes and place the treat toppers on top, wrap class of 2023 cupcakes wrappers around them. Use Class of 2023 grad cap drink coasters for the table. Hang up the Class of 2023 party banner. Add the graduate Class of 2023 Message poster inside a frame that you can place on the table.

class of 2023 drink coasters with class of 2023 and grad hat. — Class of 2023 Graduation Drink Coasters

Class of 2021 Letterhead, Scrapbook Pages and Cards

We have graduation cards and printable scrapbook pages to print and complete for those memorable moments. Encourage the kids to write about their school accomplishments with the graduation and class of 2023 letterhead.

class of 2023 grad bordered writing paper. — Class of 2023 Writing Paper

Countdown Days Graduation Printables

Countdown the Days until graduation or the last day of school with these fun chalkboard posters. Just print and use chalk to write down the number of days each day until the end of school or the day of graduation. Print the Chalkboard Graduation Grad Cap Countdown or Number of Days until end of School Chalkboard Poster.

Head over to kidscanhavefun.com to find more end of school year printables such as party ideas, gift ideas, awards, photo props, teacher gifts and more.

Mothers Day Printables, What to Give Mom, Dear Mom

Mothers Day Printables for the Kids to share with mom. Find a variety of DIY projects for the kids to make. Print Breakfast in Bed printables to serve with mom’s favorite breakfast meal. Give mom printable Mother’s day certificates and coupons, Happy Mothers Day bookmarks, word search puzzle, owl stationery, door hanger, best mom stickers, and more.

Mothers Day with Stationery for Mom

Print stationery for mom and wrap it with some ribbon. Mom will enjoy having pretty flower swirl ruled paper, owl letterhead or notepads. Use one of these letterheads to write mom a special letter or thank you for all she has done.

Mothers Day with Coupons

kids can hand out special mom coupons this year for Mothers Day. Each coupon has a different reward for mom such as “A Night Without the Kids”, “Helping Hand for any Chore”, “Money Tree Seeds”, “Best Hug and Kiss”, “You and Me Time”. Mom can use these coupons any time of the year, they don’t expire!

Mothers Day with Mom Awards

Mom will feel special this Mothers Day after receiving a Mom award from the kids. Choose from “Best Mom Award”, “Special Mom Award” and “Mom of the Year Award”. Frame an award for mom and have all the kids sign it, then hang it up.

Mothers Day with Mom Stickers

Surprise mom this Mothers Day with a Best Mom Sticker Star you can color or our heart love stickies that you can hang all around the house. Choose from mom stickies that say “Fabulous Mom!”, “Love You Mom!”, “Caring Mom!”, “Best Mom!”, “Mom Knows Best!” and “Smart Mom!”. Won’t mom be surprised when she wakes up to find these stickers everywhere.

Hang up “Happy Mothers Day” door hangers around the house for mom. Learn what Mothers Day is all about with a word search puzzle. Complete one of three storybooks just for mom, there’s a storybook from son, daughter and best mom.

Surprise Mom for Mothers Day with Printables for Mom. There’s something for all moms that she will enjoy and cherish. Don’t forget mom this Mothers day!

Mothers Day Crafts, Garden Crafts, Just for Mom from Kids

Mothers Day Crafts with Seed Packets

Mothers Day DIY crafts are always special when it’s made with loving care from the kids. Give mom a special seed packet for Mothers Day. Add mom’s special flower seeds to the packet for her garden or for a special planting pot that you can wrap up. If mom loves vegetables gardens, she will love receiving her favorite vegetable seeds in a special seed packet that you put together.

Surprise mom with something she will never expect. Add some tree seeds (seeds from leaves) to the Money Tree Seed Pocket and tell her that money really does grow on trees! (well money does comes from trees, the paper that its printed on). Mom will love the idea and of course will know that she probably will not have money growing on it anytime soon, but its the thought that counts.

DIY Mothers Day Crafts with a mom pillow box

Mothers Day Flower Garden Stakes

Make mom some Flower Pot Stakes that she can add to Flower Pots or gardens. Just print, add your name and laminate with clear tape. To make them extra durable, they can be laminated with a laminator (ask a parent to do this for you).

Make this special flower pot just for mom. Print and add the special poem to the pot to make it a memorable gift. Start off by printing the template of leaves and flowers. Cut out the leaves and flower you will use and tape it to the back of a candy stick. The candy stick will be the stem. Place the stem in a small flower pot and use decorate stones or gems to hold the flower in place. Print out the poem and roll it up like a cylinder. Tape the top of the poem to the front of the pot so that mom can roll down the poem to read.

Have fun making these DIY Mothers Day Crafts for a mom that loves everything handmade.

Breakfast in Bed for Mother’s Day – Ideas to Surprise Mom

Free Breakfast in Bed for Mom Printables

Mom’s will love the surprise of Breakfast in Bed on Mother’s Day. Print all the Breakfast in Bed for Mothers Day printables the night before and prepare all the breakfast items for mom in the morning. Younger and older kids can help each other with the preparations. Mom will appreciate home prepared muffins and breakfast made especially by the children. Breakfast ideas can include biscuits, cereal, toast, muffins, coffee, tea, milk and juice.

Setup mom with a light breakfast and use the Place Mat to set her biscuits or muffins on that you make yourself.

breakfast in bed for mothers day diy breakfast in bed mom ideas

Print Treat Toppers that say “Happy Mother’s Day” and tape to a candy stick to place on a special treat, insert into a muffin or place inside a small vase.

Happy Mother's Day Treat Toppers in a variety of colors

Make Mothers Day extra special with a handmade gift you place inside a matching Gift box.

Place a special Note Card with a single rose on the Breakfast Bed tray.

Tape a Cup Wrapper around her glass of juice or cup of coffee to make the setup complete.

Now watch how mom is impressed with your Mothers Day Breakfast in Bed Ideas and how grateful she will be to enjoy her delicious breakfast in bed!