SUMMER FREE FUN THINGS TO DO
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SUMMER FREE FUN THINGS TO DO
Check out Ms. Keating's Video about SORA ebooks and audiobooks to read over the summer.
Use your golden ticket to access all of the open ebook books this summer.
Free Summer 2024 Learning and Activity Resources
OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AND NATURE:
🌞 Skip rocks, roll down a hill, and find the Big Dipper! Inspire outdoor adventures with Great Outdoors Colorado’s 100 things to do before you're 12 list. Why? Because kids grow better outside. Printable lists in English and Spanish.
🍃 Celebrate the natural world around us with nature-friendly activities BINGO cards in English and Spanish from Alliance for a Healthier Generation.
🎫 Families can borrow a Check Out Colorado State Parks pass for a week from their local Public Library.
🎒 4th Graders and their families get free access to National Parks, lands, and waters for the entire year with the Every Kid Outdoors Program.
🏞 Everyone gets free entrance to over 400 National Parks on June 19 and August 4, 2024. Learn more about Colorado's four National Parks.
🌲 The whole family can enjoy free entrance to any of the 41 Colorado State Parks on Colorado Day, August 6, 2024.
ACTS OF KINDNESS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT:
💜 Send some love! Make an elder smile today by sending a card or letter to your local nursing home or through the Love For Our Elders program.
❣️ Make kindness the norm with lesson plans, coloring pages, posters, award certificates, and more from the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation.
READING AND LITERACY:
😎 Download or print Capstone's Summer Break Reading BINGO in English and Spanish. (English with less ink, Spanish with less ink.)
☀️ Here's another Summer Reading BINGO for kids from Imagination Soup.
📝 Keep track of each time your child reads or is read-to with this Summer Reading Log from Capstone.
🔖 All Colorado Public Libraries offer free summer learning programs that encourage kids to read for fun over the summer. Find a library near you.
📚 Read any 8 books, record them in your Summer Reading Journal, then bring it to Barnes & Noble to choose a free book! (English, Spanish)
🍕 PreK-6th grade kids can enroll in Camp BOOK IT to read books and receive a certificate for a free Personal Pan Pizza® from Pizza Hut!
🥳 Find special days to celebrate and read about them with PebbleGo monthly holiday calendars! (Contact Kelly for temp. username/password).
🎭 Storyline Online® streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children's books alongside creatively produced illustrations.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATH (STEM):
🚀 Hello, Earth Kids! Welcome to NASA Kids’ Club – a free, safe place to play games and learn about NASA, its missions, and astronauts!
💠 Tinkercad is a free web app for 3D design, electronics, and coding, trusted by over 50 million people around the world!
🌟 Google Labs is a place where kids can explore creative experiments, from making music to virtual field trips and coding adventures.
🧪 With help from an adult or older sibling, kids can try these eight summer science activities and experiments from HMH, no lab required!
GENERAL EDUCATION RESOURCES:
🧑🏫 Youth Passion Project offers free online courses for kids taught by high schoolers like World Languages, meteorology, baking, and chess.
🗓 Check out the Edmentum 30 Day Summer Challenge with 30 days’ worth of fun activities, facts, and resources.
🎥 The Achievery, a free K-12 learning platform by AT&T, provides kids with engaging and entertaining videos paired with educational activities!
🌎 Vikidia is an awesome encyclopedia made just for kids ages 8 to 13 and is available in several languages including English and Spanish.
🦁 Explore and learn all kinds of cool stuff, play games, try a new recipe or craft on National Geographic Kids.
VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS AND EDUCATIONAL TOURS:
Coming Soon!
HEALTH AND WELLNESS:
😌 Help kids reduce stress and anxiety and increase concentration with printable paper finger labyrinths from World Labyrinth Day.
🧘🏻♀️ Roar like a lion! Arch like a kitten! Stretch like a cobra! Kid-friendly yoga videos from National Geographic Kids.
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION:
🧒 Kids birth to age 5: Enroll your child now to receive free books monthly from the Dolly Parton Imagination Library!
FREE DAYS AND EVENTS IN DENVER
🔖 This printable 2024 free day bookmark from the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) lists ALL the free days in Denver!
🐯 Denver Zoo: (No free days this summer.)
🦖 Denver Museum of Nature and Science: No need to reserve Free Day/Night tickets ahead of time. View free days and learn more here.
🌺 Denver Botanic Gardens: Advanced online registration is required for all free days. View free days and learn more here.
🎨 Denver Art Museum: Advanced ticket reservations are encouraged. View free days and learn more here.
🧑🏼🌾 Bring a picnic and step back in time at Four Mile Historic Park on the 4th Friday of each month at no cost! Learn more here.
ALWAYS FREE MUSEUMS AND ATTRACTIONS
Hudson Gardens (Littleton)
Littleton Museum (Also has tons of free events and programs).
https://imaginationsoup.net/free-summer-reading-programs-kids/
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