Summer Camp

Craft: Make a Bird Feeder

Materials you need: A pine cone, toilet paper or paper towel roll. You can also use a stale piece of bread (set a piece out overnight and it will get hard).  You will also need peanut butter or honey, bird seed, & dental floss, wire, or string!

1. Select a bird feeder base! You can use a pine cone, paper towel roll or a piece of old, stale bread.
2. Run a wire, dental floss or string through your feeder. Be sure your two ends make a loop.
3. Make it sticky! Coat the toilet paper roll or base with peanut butter or honey.
4. Add your goodies! Roll the coated paper roll in birdseed, cranberries or raisins if you have them. Birds can even eat unsalted sunflower seeds or plain popcorn!
5. Find a place to hang your bird feeder outside. Enjoy your view!

Now that you have a bird feeder to bring the birds, grab your binoculars, sit quietly and wait for them to eat. Can you recognize what kind of birds you see?

Craft: Tracing Shapes

Tools you need: Sidewalk chalk, rocks, leaves, or sticks. Be sure to put everything back where you found it when we’re done.

1. Draw some shapes using sidewalk chalk on a sidewalk or patio. You can also do this activity inside on a large piece of cardboard.
2. You can draw your school using a square and a triangle, or a tall building, using a rectangle and A circle can become the sun.We can even draw a kite using a diamond!
3.  find your sticks, leaves, or rocks and place them around your shapes on the lines. You are tracing your shapes with objects!
4. Do you recognize the shapes you made? Ask for your caregiver’s help – look for your circle, triangle, rectangle, or square.  All things are made of shapes!

Craft: Flower Bookmark

Tools you need: 2 pipecleaners, two 1/2 pipecleaners, scissors

1. Twist a full length pipe cleaner into flower petal shapes, looping the pipe cleaner around the middle.
2. Twist the second full pipe cleaner into flower petal shapes.
3. Twirl one of the 1/2 pipe cleaners around your finger to form a spring.
4. Stack the two flowers on top of each other, then twist the spring around the center.
5. Twist the second 1/2 pipe cleaner around the back to form the stem.