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1

Make a fire cracker puppet with a toilet paper tube.
(Art)
2

Let your child decorate a bike or wagon with red, white and blue crepe paper.
(Art)
3

Teach your child the song “Yankee Doodle”.
(Music)
4

Fourth of July
5

Discuss the history of the Fourth of July. 
(History)
6

Serve a red, white and blue snack today.
(Colors)
7

Read the rhyme “Little Boy Blue”.
(Language/
Colors)
8

9

Give your child plastic containers to play with in water.  Discuss full and empty. 
(Science)
10

Help your child discover evaporation.  Hang damp clothes up to dry.
(Science)
11

Fill sponges with water and practice squeezing them out.
(Sm. Muscle Dev.)
12

Let your child write on the sidewalk with colored chalk.  Wash off with a hose.
(Writing)
13

14

Tear blue pictures form magazines to paste in a “Blue Book”. 
(Colors/ tearing)
15

Let your child help wash the car.
(Large Muscle Dev.)
16

17

Give your child a small suitcase to pack and unpack.
(Coordination)
18

Let your child sort a pile of mixed pasta.
(Shape Discrimination)
19

Go on a walk.  Count the number of cars or birds you see.
(Math)
20

Weave yarn through holes of berry baskets.
(Sewing)
21

Lie in the grass with your child and do nothing but day dream.
(Imagination)
22

Draw dots on paper.  Have your child connect the dots, making triangles and squares.
(Shapes)
23

Show your child some of his baby clothes.  Measure how much he has grown.
(Size)
24

Sing a song about summer.
(Music)
25

26

How many ways can you think of to keep cool on hot days?
(Problem Solving)
27

Go to the beach and write letters in the sand.
(Writing)
28

29

Have your child “read” a book to you.
(Reading)
30

Teach your child how to do the “Hokey Pokey”.
(Movement)
31

Teach your child how to conserve water.
(Responsibility)