75 Fun Summer Learning Activities

Summer learning doesn’t have to be boring.

There are plenty of FUN activities that your children can do that will keep them learning all summer and it won’t even seem like work to them. These include activities like rock collecting, camping, educational games, drawing, and more.

Below you’ll find a list of 75 suggestions for summer learning activities organized by category. This list can be used to help you choose activities that appeal to your children’s talents or cater to their learning needs. Or you can use it on days when your kids come up to you and say, “I’m bored.” Either way, I hope it makes your kids’ summer more enjoyable…educationally speaking.

Science

Go camping. This is a good opportunity for your kids to learn survival skills.
Collect rocks.
Go on nature walks. Your kids journal about what they see.
Visit the zoo.
Take a trip to a national park.
Do science experiments.
Let your kids experiment with making rainbows with a hose or sprinkler. They can try to figure out what angle do the hose needs to be at in order to make the rainbow.
Visit a science museum.
Bird watch. This is a good opportunity to study animal behavior.
Catch fireflies.
Raise butterflies.
Start an ant farm.
Build a worm farm.
Build rockets.
Fly kites.
Go fishing.
Star gaze.
Plant a garden.

Geography

Go geocaching.
Play geography games.
Take a road trip. Let the kids follow along on a map.
Do a map puzzle

History

Visit history museums.
Let your kids dress up as their favorite historical figures.
Visit historical sites.
Go to a renaissance festival or make one of your own.

Art

Do arts and crafts.
Go to an art museum.
Let your kids draw in their own sketchpad. You can find drawing lessons and tutorials in books or online.
Collect and press flowers.
Let your kids take lessons in painting, sculpture, or some other art medium.
Download GIMP or purchase Photoshop and let your kids make and modify graphics.
Put an old white sheet on the lawn and let your kids splatter paint on it to make modern art.
Let your kids do chalk art.
Cut paper into squares and let your kids do origami.

Reading

Have your kids participate in summer reading programs.
Take trips to the library.
Participate in literature groups.
Have a friendly reading competition in your homeschool group or family.
Read aloud to your kids.
Do Reader’s Theater.

Math

Play math games.
Find fun things for your kids to measure outside like your car, a pool, or toys.
Teach your kids to cook. This is our favorite teaching cookbook.
Find interesting things to weigh like flowers, acorns, or rocks.

Music

Play music in your house.
Sing songs.
Go to a concert.
Make homemade musical instruments.
Have a concert.
Let your kids create their own dance steps to some music.
Let your kids learn a new musical instrument like the recorder, guitar, or harmonica.

Physical Education

Do one of these many P.E. activities.
Do one of these indoor activities.
Have a paper airplane olympics or some other type of olympics.
Set up an obstacle course.
Have a balloon fight.
Go swimming.
Take your kids to the park.

Foreign Language

Keep speaking the language in your family all summer long.
Have a fiesta.
Cook ethnic meals.
Make culture crafts.
Listen to music in the foreign language.
Eat at an ethnic restaurant.
Visit a foreign country.
Play foreign language games. I have some games for learning Spanish here.

Misc. Activities

Do community activities.
Play educational games.
Put on a play.
Have a scavenger hunt.
Do educational puzzles.
Put on a magic show.
Do a hobby.
Participate in a summer Bible camp.

I hope you found this list a helpful resource. Feel free to share it with anyone else you know who needs ideas for summer learning activities when their children say, “I’m bored.”

Many blessings,