Five Kid-friendly Summer Ideas for Interactive Learning at Home
August 09, 2021
Research shows that children experience a summer learning loss across reading and mathematics in about one month. It's important to keep our kids actively learning and engaged all summer along, but more importantly to give them some back to school preparation before heading back in the Fall. We’ve compiled a list of five easy learning activities you can use with our Alphapals as interactive teaching tools to keep the learning fun with summer school at home.
READ — Reading four to five books over the summer has a positive impact on reading achievement comparable to attending summer school. Grab a few of their favorite books and turn it into an interactive learning game by choosing a few words from the books to ask your kids to spell out using your Alphapals sets. Using 3D letters as a learning tool helps improve a child's concentration and ability to process information better.
COLORS — Give your kids a refresher on their colors using our Alphapals sets as educational toys. Ask your child to find items in the house that match one of the seven vibrant colors of our letters.
SCAVENGER HUNT — Use our plush learning toys and choose one letter at a time to focus on. Ask your kids to find an item in the house or backyard that starts with that particular letter.
WRITE/TRACE — Ask your child to write a weekly letter to his or her grandparents, relatives, or friends. Encourage them to keep a summer journal or organize a pen pal that your kids can write too from their school or community. Another way to utilize our plush large alphabet letters as learning ABC activities is get large tracing paper and help your child trace each letter from the Alphabet on the paper.
PLAY DATE — Organize an outdoor play date with your kids and a friend from their school and/or community. Bring out the Alphapals plush Alphabet set for some alphabet practice. Ask them to spell out their favorite words and call out the five vowels when they are needed. When all the fun is done, challenge them to put the pals back in their bag as fast as they can, teaching them that cleaning and organization can be fun!
