If you have a summer program, plan to grow a garden. In the math or manipulative area, place seeds and vegetables for sorting by color, shape, or size. Invite the children to bring in labels with pictures from vegetable and fruit cans. When you have two of each, they can be laminated for matching. Place laminated pictures of apples, grapes, watermelons, beans, corn, and peas in the language center.
Children can name foods they know.
They also can sort these by color, shape, and size. Dramatic Play Children might like to pretend to be some of their favorite farm animals and pretend to live in the large cardboard barn they created. Provide cardboard farm animal ears and tails to use in dramatic play. Children can help create these in the art center. Children can pretend to be their favorite farm animal.