Encourage your child to express thoughts and ideas through drawing. Look at the picture together and ask your child to count different shapes, identify items and describe scenes in the picture. Make a collage of summer activities. This project helps children classify and organize. Create the collage by cutting pictures from colored paper, magazines, photos and newspapers and pasting them onto paper.
Older children can cut out letters to spell the names of favorite summer games or foods.
To practice math, have your child cut and paste pictures of animals, people or cars, which can then be counted, added or subtracted. Read and enjoy improvisation. Join your child in re-enacting the story, playing characters to build language, vocabulary and reading comprehension and to teach him how to order events. Have your child create a story about his favorite outdoor experiences. Creating an original story develops imaginative thinking and sequencing skills.