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Season - Summer Summer sun & clear cloudless days.... what activities have you done with the children in the summer time?

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Smile Summer themed outline set - plan, buy and download

A set of 17 summer time outline templates have been added to the store.

This outline set helps to focuss activities on sun awareness, warm weather clothing, staying cool and ways in which individuals can protect themselves. It's a set that aims to promote children's right to information and play.

Suggestions for using each ..

Flip flop shoe painting and print activity - get toes messy with paint, mud or create own shoe designs by drawing and tracing the utlines of children's feet!
Suncream awareness - dispensing methods, bottles, wipes and sprays. An additional set of images have been included to laminate and add alongide the exploration of real squeeze, squirt, spray and wipe objects in a water tray maybe, transfering action to text. Make bottle labels that wrap and inform.
Hat image to use with collaging materials - straw & weaving, sun hats introduce cultural aspects to planned activities - UK hanky, USA baseball, Mexican sombrero
Place with mark making tools - crayons, pencils near a hat focussed dressup box
Towel outline - use with fabric pieces that explore absorbancy and waterproof - repellant. Which works best tissue paper or towelling fabric?

Shell outline take marbelling prints with - pearlescent marbeling inks and through books or other appropriately sourced resources, explore creatures that live in the sea.
Long & tall glass - cut, paste and connect the picture pieces together to make a representationally, refreshing cool drink! laminate the finished images and float in the setting's water tray, add lemon, lime and orange slices, gold/yellow/orange and green glitter.

Alternatively use to explore colour mixing and traditional colors that fresshly made orange squash and lemonade has - mix yellow and white to lighten on a glass outline, red and yellow to creat squash.
Sun shade parasol.

Use as instruction plans for constructing parasols with real resources - drinking staws, concertina folded paper, broom handles, sheeting and rope. or for markmaking resources, cutting and for jigsaw type assembly.
Icecream outline examines the patterning of a cone. Recreate with dipping tools, brown paint and scrunched colour tissue paper for flavour - link to artist work
Bucket and spade outlines can be utillised as wall display posters. Collage with sand to demonstrate full of sand, half full, quater full and empty.
Yacht outline and boat naming. Mark make cut and float on the surface of water. How long will a paper yacht resist the water ..
Sunflower and leaves - explore height, growing, number, size and colour of leaves ..
Use real leaves, clean with a mild disenfectant, dry and paint. Take impressions of the leaves onto the outline to see patterning and leaf veins that enable water to travel around a plant.
Cloud and sun template invites colour fill activities with colours white d yellow.
Use soft fluffy materials to paint dip and impression make and reflective materials as collage for the sun.
Use as a sun awaeness activity that explores how sun can damage eyes and skin.
Sunglass outlines can be used to cut, wear and discuss eye protection.

A page of general planning suggestions is also included.

Summer time outline resource - £2.25 downloadable title

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A few complimentary activities to accompany any outline play ..

Summer time book list

Yellow sun craft activity
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