Quick Link: Independence Day
Lots of great activities and coloring pages!

Quick Link: Canada Day
Lots of great activities and coloring pages!

Summer Activities Children of all ages have fun preparing for holidays with creative activities and projects. For use at school, in clubs, and at home.

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Canada (available as a book or e-book)
Use map projects, time lines, and experiments to teach students about the geography, science, history, literature, language, government, legends, and traditions of Canada. Students pan for gold, write haiku poetry, design totem poles, and more.

Our Fifty States (available as a book or e-book)
Informative profiles, maps, activities, games and clip art for each of the fifty states are provided.

July Is...

Anti-Boredom Month
> Find Ideas Here > Warm Weather Boredom Busters

National Baked Bean Month

National Blueberry Month

National Hot Dog Month
> CatDog Cuisine

National Ice Cream Month
> Homemade Ice Cream > Pop Art Ice Cream Painting

National Picnic Month
> Creative Fun with a Picnic Dress-Up

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Build a Scarecrow Day

Canada Day
> Activities and Ideas

International Joke Day

National Postal Worker Day

2

Aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared, 1937

3

Compliment Your Mirror Day

Dog Days Begin

Stay Out of the Sun Day

4

Independence Day
> Activities and Ideas

National Country Music Day

Tom Sawyer Fence Painting Day

5

Caribbean Day
> Make a coffee can drum

Family Day
> Get crafty and make something together with your family

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Fried Chicken Day

7

Macaroni Day
> Noodle Fish > Yankee Doodle Dandy Hat > Make a picture frame > Pasta Butterflies > Aztec Sculpture

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Video Games Day

Liberty Bell Day

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National Sugar Cookie Day

10

Artist Camille Pissarro's Birthday (1830)

Teddy Bear's Picnic Day

11

Author E. B. White's Birthday (1899)
> Make Spiders! > More spiders! > and even more spiders!

Cheer Up the Lonely Day

12

Paper Bag Day
> Paper Bag Kites > Paper Bag Stories

Julius Caesar's Birthday (102 BC)

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Puzzle Day
> Puzzle Prints > Puzzle Piece Picture Frame > Picture Puzzle > Tissue Paper Puzzle Art > Puzzle Tree

15

Artist Rembrandt van Rijn's Birthday (1606)

First Boeing 707 flew in 1954.
> Transportation Ideas

16

Apollo 11 Mission to the Moon Launched, 1969
> Make a planet, sun or moon.

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Disneyland opened in 1955.

Sewing machine patented in 1790.

USA began issuing paper money in 1861.

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Cow Appreciation Day
> Cow and Barn Coloring Page > Cow and Calf Coloring Page #1 > Cow and Calf Coloring Page #2 >Folk Art Cow Coloring Page > Cow Coloring Page

Nelson Mandela's Birthday, 1918

20

Chess Day
> Make a Chess/Checker Board

Moon Day (Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon in 1969)
> Cosmically Cool Mobile > Sculpt a Planet/Moon/Sun

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Ice Cream Soda Day

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Ice Cream Cone Introduced In 1904
> Cake Cones > Homemade Ice Cream > Pop Art Ice Cream Painting

Mosquito Day
> KinderArt Summer Camp

25

Cyclist Lance Armstrong won his first Tour de France in 1999

Threading the Needle Day

26

Aunt and Uncle Day
> Create a craft for family

27

Bugs Bunny's birthday

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Beatrix Potter's birthday

First fingerprint taken

World War I began in 1914

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National Lasagna Day

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National Cheesecake Day

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Author J. K. Rowling's Birthday (1966)
> Make a Magic Wand

4th Sunday in July

Parents' Day
> Mothers Day Crafts > Fathers Day Crafts

Canada Day and Independence Day

HAND PRINT CANADA DAY FLAGS ^K-6
...Create maple leaf flags using hand prints.

SCRATCH SOME FIREWORKS
...Let the celebrations begin!

SHAKERS
...Super July celebration fun from Amy Schamburek.

SPARKLERS
...Super July celebration fun from Amy Schamburek.

YANKEE DOODLE DANDY HATS
...Super July celebration fun from Amy Schamburek.

Great Links

Practical Kitchen's 4th of July recipes, fun, and more!

4th of July at 20ishParents.com

ChildFun's Fourth of July Crafts & Activities