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VEHICLES (JUNE 10TH - JUNE 15TH)

This week, our summer camp theme is All About Vehicles! Does your little one love making tracks with wheels? Have your little racer drive their vehicles through the paint and onto the paper to create colorful tracks. Keep on reading for daily activities to do with your kiddos this week.

Want more activities to do with your kids this summer? Check out our full class schedule here. New to FIT4MOM? Sign up for a free class here.

Supplies needed:

  • Vehicles

  • Washable paint

  • Paper

  • Cookie sheet or tray

  • Mud - AKA water and dirt

  • Bucket or bin

  • Soap

  • Scrub brushes

  • Small towel

  • Cardboard

  • Painters or masking tape

  • Bananas

  • Kiwi

  • Pretzels

  • Toothpicks

  • Teddy grams or Bunny crackers

mommy and me summer camp craft

MONDAY CRAFT: PAINT WITH VEHICLES

  1. Grab your vehicles, paper, washable paint and a plate

  2. Pour paint onto paper plate or tray

  3. “Drive” your vehicle through the paint

  4. Use the paint on the wheels to paint car tracks on your paper

Toddler and kid activity

TUESDAY SCIENCE: RAMPS AND ROADS

  1. Gather up toy vehicles from around the house, cardboard boxes and painters/masking tape

  2. Use the cardboard to make ramps of all different sizes. Have the cars race, observe which go fastest, farthest, slowest and shortest. You could even measure. Talk about why the cars did what they did. Have fun making guesses about what will happen and why.

  3. Bonus - use the tape to make roads and parking lots all over the house

mommy and me workout and activity

WEDNESDAY SNACK: BANANA CAR

  1. Grab bananas, kiwi, pretzels, teddy grahams or bunny grahams, tooth picks, cutting board and child safe knife (if you plan to let your child help cut).
  2. Peel bananas and kiwi
  3. Cut bananas in thirds and kiwi into circles
  4. Use the tooth picks to attach the kiwi wheels to the banana car
  5. Add a pretzel steering wheel and a teddy graham or bunny graham driver
  6. eat!
free summer camp

THURSDAY STORY TIME

  1. Don’t let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by: Mo Willems

  2. The Little Engine That Could by: Watty Piper

  3. Go Dog Go by: P.D. Eastman

mommy and me activity and workout

FRIDAY ACTIVITY: VEHICLE MUD PIT AND CAR WASH

  1. Grab tray, bowl or bin, mud, dish soap, scrub brush or sponge, towel and vehicles

  2. Mix up a bit of mud on your tray. Establish the rules “mud stays on the tray” or “if the mud is off the tray that’s showing me you are all done” “where does the mud stay? That’s right on the tray”

  3. Let children play with the vehicles in the mud

  4. Once they are done with the mud, send the vehicles to the car wash. Fill a bowl or bin with soapy water and let the children scrub the cars clean

  5. Lay them on a towel to dry

stroller workout

VEHICLE WEEK CLASS SCHEDULE

  • Monday:
  • 9:00 am Stroller Strides
  • @ Bushmaster Park
  • Bring your toy vehicles to class day
  • Wednesday:
  • 9:00 am Stroller Strides
  • 10:00 am Paint by number play group
  • @ Bushmaster Park
  • Friday:
  • 9:00 am Stroller Barre
  • 10:00 am Fire Truck visit
  • @ Foxglenn Park
  • Saturday:
  • 9:00 am Stroller Strides
  • @ Bushmaster Park

Want more activities to do with your kids this summer? Check out our full class schedule here. New to FIT4MOM? Sign up for a free class here.