Category: Summertime
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Week 21 Free Printable: Summer Reading Challenge
Broaden your kids’ horizons this summer by encouraging them to read outside of their comfort zone. This list uses genres, but you can create any kind of list you want that helps challenge your kids to read new things. Maybe you’d choose to have them read a newspaper or an article online? You can easily […]
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Week 20 Free Printable: Beach Packing List
Packing lists are such a wonderful thing. I love having a printed list I can use to make sure we don’t forget anything when we head out the door, and a picture packing list for a trip to the beach lets your kids help collect what can often be a surprising amount of gear! Print […]
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Week 19 Free Printable: Summer Schedule
Feeling overwhelmed by long summer days stretching out ahead of you that all need to be filled? A simple trick is to create a framework for each day. You might not always need it, but sometimes it’s nice to have a little structure to help you and the kids know what’s coming. Print this for […]
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Week 18 Free Printable: Summer Vacation Rules
Setting up house rules for screen time is a great way to help make sure your kids don’t spend their entire summer in front of a screen – or worse, spend it arguing with you about how much screen time is too much. Try setting up Summer Vacation Rules and then posting them someplace visible […]
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3 Printable Checklists Every Family Needs
The Trip Clip has a lot of tools to help your family get off to a great start this school year. Get organized for back to school with this drag and drop morning routine maker. You can easily add your own items to the list, or edit the text to make it just right for […]
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Beat the Summer Slide
Studies show that kids perform better on tests at the end of the school year than they do at the beginning of the next school year – all those months off really do take their toll. Help your kids brush up on some important skills before they return to school in the fall with these […]
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Step 6: Summer Schedule
Step 6 is about making a loose schedule for your days. You can plan time for all the things you want to fit in this summer – fun activities as well as reading time, or chores, or whatever is important to you this summer. You don’t have to follow it to the T every day, […]
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Step 5: Boredom Busters
For all those moments over the summer when your kids can’t think of a single thing to do, try one of these free, printable Bingo Bored Boards. I created these by generating a random Bingo Board on The Trip Clip, and then brainstorming ideas for things they can do based on each picture. I recommend […]
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Step 4: Summer Reading
A summer reading plan is so important that I made this topic separate from Summer Learning. Of course ideally reading is a year-round activity, but summer offers a great opportunity to get into a reading habit or accomplish new reading goals. How you set your reading goals for the summer should be dependent on your […]
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Step 3: Summer Learning
Summer can be a great time to catch up on skills that aren’t as solid as you’d like them to be, or maybe get a little ahead for the upcoming year. My kids are usually pretty resistant to worksheets of any kind, but occasionally that’s what’s needed. You can also find lots of ways to […]
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