Fun summer activities for kids: ideas you’ll want to try in childcare and at home
In the hot summer, children spend more time indoors both at daycare and at home.
For those wondering, “What can we play indoors with the kids?”, here are some perfect summer activities.
Games using water and ice are especially popular this season.
Cool sensations and hands-on activities are exciting for children.
It’s also a great experience to help them feel connected to nature or to incorporate traditional summer events—these memories really stay with kids.
Try these ideas at home, in daycare, or in kindergarten.
Through summertime activities, let’s help children create lots of fun memories!
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Fun summer activities for kids: Ideas you’ll want to try at preschool and at home (111–120)
Water play with a vacuum/compression bag
Introducing a cool summer activity using vacuum storage bags for futons and clothes! All you need to do is fill the bag with water—just enough so it doesn’t get overstuffed.
When you touch the water-filled bag, you’ll enjoy a squishy, bouncy sensation, and standing on it barefoot feels great thanks to the coolness of the water.
Lie down on it and it feels even better! Vacuum storage bags are stronger than regular plastic bags, so it’s fine for kids to hop on them.
If you draw some fish and slip the drawings inside before adding water, it’ll feel like you’re playing with fish—as if you’re in the ocean or a river!
Collecting creatures in rivers and ponds
Kids love playing in nature! These days, there’s hardly any greenery left in urban areas, but how about using the summer vacation to visit a place rich in nature and try collecting living creatures? Especially rivers and ponds don’t require going too far from the city, so they’re easy to visit even when you’re busy.
It’s also perfect as a topic for an independent research project.
Factory tour
In summer, kids are on vacation, so they can get bored staying at home all the time.
Many people look for places to go out at times like that, so how about taking a factory tour? Recently, there have been more factory tour programs that children can enjoy, making them perfect for creating memories.
It might also be a good idea to use it as a topic for a summer research project.
Melt the ice to get the toy
When you think of summer, you just want to touch something cold like ice, right? If you’re looking for a fun activity that uses ice, I recommend a game where you freeze toys inside ice.
As you handle the ice, it gradually melts from your body heat, letting you retrieve the toys inside.
It’s easy to prepare but gets everyone excited, which is great.
mud play
Kids love getting all muddy when they play, don’t they? Since it’s summer, how about trying some mud play when you’re outside? Tidal flats where people go clamming have plenty of natural mud, so it might be nice to enjoy some mud play with the family while you’re at the beach.
And if everyone gets covered in mud, taking a group photo will make for a lifelong memory.