Week 1: Space Week!


Hey everyone!

So, week 1 of my Summer Camp at Home series is space themed! My oldest LOVES all things space, so I've done a weekly theme of space before, but I've changed up the activities and things to keep it interesting!

Here is a picture of some of the supplies I have! Some of these things I had, but I'll tell you where I got everything in the picture!

According to my oldest, you can't have a space week without Star Wars, so that's why that's in the mix! We also have Star Wars themed workbooks that I can work from!

So on the left side of the picture, you can see a few craft items, door hangers, magnet kits and there's scratch art as well. I got all of those crafts at AC Moore for $1 each! The Melissa & Doug seek & finds have different boards in there, space, transportation, ocean, etc. My boys LOVE stickers, so this will be a huge hit, I'm sure. These were at Five Below for $4. I thought it was a fair price to pay for Melissa & Doug! These are some of the arts and crafts we will be doing this week. (I have it all planned out, but I always end up straying slightly from the plan!)

The books (we love reading around here!) are a mix from Goodwill, Five Below, and the Scholastic book fair. We waited for the BOGO sale at the school book fair and scored some of these books, and Goodwill has books for 99 cents usually. We got the three steps to reading books, and the space encyclopedia at Five Below. I *always* forget about that store and I'm glad we went in there on a whim!

I have movies planned for this week (i.e. Wall-E, Space Jam, The Jetsons, Planet 51, Monsters Vs. Aliens) because they're fun and the boys love a good movie and some popcorn! One of the nights (probably Friday and probably for Wall-E) we'll do a family movie night.

Snacks this week include: Galaxy cupcakes, rocket ships (fruit on skewers) and green jello (alien slime)

I will try and post some pictures of our activities from the week and do another blog post about how it's going! I'm just trying to make sure that my kids are getting quality time with me (since I have a tendency to be very work oriented and I would write constantly) and that they are learning but also so they don't spend the entire summer in front of the TV 😂😂😂.

I hope you try and do some activities along with us!

:)

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