2023 Summer Activity-a-Day Calendar and Detailed Weekly Plans
05.15.2023
Tools to Grow is pleased to share our annual FREE Activity-a-Day Summer 2023 Calendars with hundreds of activities designed to maintain academic knowledge, battle summer boredom, and make family memories!
By providing their child the opportunity to engage in these activities, parents will be offering their children the chance to:
- Minimize or eliminate learning loss- Skill regression may occur during prolonged breaks from school. These activities offer opportunities for writing, drawing, generating ideas, and using executive functioning skills (problem solving, planning & organizing).
- Maintain fine motor skills- Children with special needs may regress when not participating in therapy. These summer themed crafts & activities provide opportunities to use a variety of tools and materials that build hand strength, pencil control, and eye-hand coordination.
- Stay fit and coordinated- Build muscles, balance, strength, endurance, and fight childhood obesity.
- Create new life experiences- Children with more background knowledge have better reading comprehension.
- Benefit from multi-sensory learning experiences- These capture your child’s interest while using touch, movement, sound, and sight to promote learning.
- Expand their role in the family- Complete simple household tasks that help to boost a child’s confidence while learning daily living skills.
Free! 2023 Activity-a-Day Summer Calendar
Summer Activity-a-Day Calendar is a FREE Printable for the summer months of June, July, and August 2023.
So as to offer each child the most relevant and age appropriate activities, this year we have continued to provide you with three suggested age ranges/grade levels:
1) Level 1: Preschool - Grade 1
2) Level 2: Grade 2 - Grade 4
3) Level 3: Grade 5 and Above
What Skills are Addressed in the Calendars?
Level 1 and Level 2 Calendar and Plans are organized as follows:
- Monday = Fine Motor
- Tuesday = Sensory Fun
- Wednesday = Visual Perceptual/Visual Motor Integration
- Thursday = Handwriting
- Friday = Gross Motor
- Saturday = Around the House
Level 3 Calendar and Plans are organized as follows:
- Monday = Fine Motor
- Tuesday = Executive Functioning
- Wednesday = Visual Perceptual/Visual Motor Integration
- Thursday = Handwriting
- Friday = Gross Motor
- Saturday = Around the House
- Fine Motor Skills involve the use of precise and coordinated movements of the fingers to perform hand use tasks. Fine motor skills are necessary for completing daily tasks such as dressing (using buttons/zippers), feeding (using mealtime utensils), being a student (using a pencil, keyboard, or scissors), and engaging in leisure/play activities (drawing, playing many musical instruments).
- Sensory Play involves opportunities to promote the development of sensory processing skills by increasing adaptive or functional responses to sights, sounds, touch, and movement.
- Executive Functioning Skills involve the many tasks a child’s brain performs that are necessary to think, act, and solve problems. Executive functioning includes tasks that help a child learn new information, remember and retrieve information learned in the past, and the use of this information to solve problems in everyday life.
- Visual Perceptual Skills involve the ability to understand, evaluate, and interpret what is seen. There are a variety of visual perceptual skills; deficits in one or more of these may have academic and functional consequences for success at school and home.
- Visual Motor Integration (VMI) Skills involve the coordination of hand movements based upon the perception of visual information. It is the execution of hand movements guided by what the child is seeing.
- Handwriting Skills involve a complex process of recording language by hand, often by using paper and a pen or pencil. The production of legible and efficient handwriting requires intact skills in the areas of postural control, eye hand coordination, visual perception, fine motor control, ocular control, and pencil grasp. Handwriting skills may be strengthened through practice that includes coloring, drawing, printing letters, printing numerals, or forming other symbols.
- Gross Motor Skills involve the use of large muscles groups for the performance of functions such as walking, running, jumping, riding a bike and playing sports.
- Around the House Skills involve completion of simple household tasks that help to boost a child’s confidence and independence. As a child develops he/she will need to increase their competence in the completion of daily living skills for success at home, school, community, and work environments.
Instructions for a Sun-Tastic Summer!
1) Print out FREE Summer Activity-a-Day 2023 Calendars.
2) Complete activities throughout the months of June, July, and August 2023 as indicated on the calendars.
3) Print accompanying detailed Weekly Plans with detailed instructions and Printable Activities for each week! **Detailed Plans + Resources are for members only.
Summer Detailed Weekly Plans & Activities
Are you looking for a complete NO PREP summer packet?
Are you looking for detailed weekly plans, instructions, and printable resources that accompany the FREE 2023 monthly Activity-a-Day Calendar?
We have exactly what you are looking for! We have done the planning and organizing for you! Simply Print and Go!
Summer Weekly Plans & Activities are conveniently organized into the same three levels and suggested age ranges as the FREE Activity-a-Day Calendars.
* Weekly Plans are included for FULL Premium members.
Level 1 = Preschool - Grade 1
This 97 page Printable PDF includes detailed weekly plans/ instructions and accompanying activities for children preschool age through first grade.
Activities include:
- Snorkel Bubbles - Eye Dropper Fun!
- Boxed Words
- Handwriting Pool Rules!
- Color by Number
- Fold and Cut
- Tic Tac Toe
- Exercise Fun
- Pineapple Dough Mat
- Rainbow Writing
- Connect the Dots
- Copy Me! Body Position Visuals
- Therapy Putty Exercises
- Yoga Poses
- Watermelon Number Puzzle
- Popsicle Rip Paper Craft
- Play Dough Mat & Letters
- Pattern & Cut Lemonade Theme
- Alphabet Practice (Upper & Lower Case Letters)
- Number Practice
- Proper Letter Formation Chart
- Proper Pencil Grasp Visual Poster
- Gross Motor Summer Animal Walk Game
- Tactile Ice Cream Puffy Paint Recipe and Craft
- Maze Paths
- Pencil Paths
- Sorting Coins
- Find the Differences
- Copy the Butterfly
- Pre-Writing - Snow Cone Theme
- Sensory Coloring: Bear Edition
- Hole Punch Art
- Fish Tangram Activity
- I Spy!
- And Much More!!
* Weekly Plans are included for FULL Premium members.
** Not a member of our membership based website? We also have these summer plans listed in our Tools to Grow Shop! Find them here!
2) Level 2 = Grade 2 - Grade 4
This 123 page Printable PDF includes detailed weekly lesson plans/instructions and accompanying activities for children in the second through fourth grades.
Activities include:
- Lazy River- Sensory Motor Fun
- I Spy Bottle
- Yarn Wrapping Fish
- Learn to Draw
- Code Breaker
- I Spy Bottle
- Make a Pinwheel
- Maze - Moderate Challenge Level
- Fingerprint Art
- Fold and Cut
- Therapy Putty Hand Exercises
- Exercise Visuals + Instructions
- Copy Me! Body Positions
- Coin Match - Match the Price
- Spatial Relations
- Puffy Paint Ice Cream Recipe and Craft
- Handwriting Practice (ABC Order, Boxed Words, A-Z Scavenger Hunt, Secret Code, Cryptogram, Summer Story, Write a Letter, Make a List)
- Gross Motor Animal Walks and Spinner Game
- Proper Letter Formation Chart
- Tactile Recipes (Goop)
- Hole Punch Art
- Word Search
- Find the Differences
- Paper Clip Jellyfish Craft
- Sensory Coloring
- Mixed up Word Search/Scan
- Fish Tangram Activity
- Copy the Butterfly
- Q-Tip Art = Palm Tree
- Smoothie Recipe - Visual Instructions
- I Spy!
- And Much More!!
* Weekly Plans are included for FULL Premium members.
** Not a member of our membership based website? We also have these summer plans listed in our Tools to Grow Shop! Find them here!
3) Level 3 = Grade 5 and Above
This 103 page Printable PDF includes detailed weekly lesson plans/instructions and accompanying activities for children in the fifth grade and above.
Activities include:
- Roll & Design a Swimsuit
- Learn to Draw
- Copy Grid Lines
- Connect the dots
- Handwriting Practice-Pool Rules!
- Color by Number
- Volunteer Application Form
- Learn to Draw
- Spatial Relations
- Mystery Puzzle
- Maze - Complex Challenge Level
- Exercise Visuals + Instructions
- Copy Me! Body Positions
- Therapy Putty Hand Exercises
- Yoga Poses
- Calendar Skills
- Read a Menu - Ice Cream Shoppe
- Printing Practice (Summer Story, Cryptogram, Word Scramble, Space between Words, Space between Letters)
- Map Skills
- Hole Punch Art
- Word Search
- Estimating Time
- Prioritizing Skills
- Organizing and Sequencing Skills
- Grocery/Menu Planning
- Mixed up Grocery Items Activity
- Chore List
- Drawing/Symmetry Activities
- Food Shape Structures
- Design Comic Strips
- Managing Time
- Back to School Supply List
- Using a Ruler Activity
- Recipe Instructions and Steps to Complete
- Pencil Twirls
- Find the Differences
- And Much More!!
* Weekly Plans are included for FULL Premium members.
** Not a member of our membership based website? We also have these summer plans listed in our Tools to Grow Shop! Find them here!
We hope you have lots of fun and make amazing summer memories together with these FREE Summer 2023 Activity-a-Day Printable Calendars!!
We know these calendars will take the stress away from planning activities and allow for some great summer memories together!
You can print out the Activity-a-Day Summer Calendars and Weekly Plans, as well as check out the other summer resources we have to offer here.
Have a wonderful, safe and fun-filled Summer!!
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