The key to preventing summer learning loss for all kids, especially visual learners, is to make learning hands on, make it visual, add lots of art and time to create and above all – make it FUN. There are tons of great ideas out there and we’ve been busy gathering the best and brightest ideas for you and your visual learner. Summer lends itself to messy, creative and experimental activities because everything can be done outside! As part of our Summer Brain Drain series, I would like to offer you a list of simple, fun and educational activities to try with the kids this summer. 

1. Make some “snow”, only 2 ingredients and soooo much fun!! Click here to learn how.
2. How creative can you be with a cardboard box? Check out these ideas to keep the kids innovating on a rainy day.
3. Explore polymers with this glitter slime recipe!
4. Encourage the kids to play in the mud with this Mud Paint Recipe!
5. Discover physics with this Paper Airplane Experiment!
6. Don’t let the kids spend a rainy day inside have some fun with these Get Up & Move Dice!
7. Go for a nature walk collecting sticks, flowers, leaves… then make art out of your findings.
8. Get the kids to tell stories and work on composition writing with some help from Story Stones!
9. This family friendly engineering activity can bring everyone’s creativity to life: Build a Fort.
10. Draw outside with Squirt Bottle Sidewalk Chalk.
11. Keep cool and learn about the laws of matter with this sponge transfer activity.
12. Practice spelling and letter recognition with Backyard Scrabble.
13. Create you own giant board game for the backyard.
14. Put a science spin on bubble blowing with Alien Bubbles.
15. Work on color, shape or letter recognition with Escape the Volcano.
16. Encourage your little geneticist by extracting DNA from a strawberries.
17. It’s not too late to create a summer bucket list and practice writing too.
18. Summer is the perfect time to create an outdoor science lab.
19. Refine those story writing skills with mini-picture books.

For more STEAM activity ideas, take a look at my Pinterest board. Get out there and experiment with the kids. Who knows what they will discover.