Dive Into This Camp and Make a Splash!

$19.50

This summer camp lesson plan is centered around meaningful play with hands-on, creative building activities and experiments to engage school-age learners. This summer camp unit offers five 6-hour lesson plans. They feature suggestions for hands-on activities, outdoor play, and social-emotional learning. Activities are standards-aligned to ensure quality content that helps children gain knowledge and prepare to move forward in grade school.

About our lesson plans:

  • Developed and tested by a team of experienced, certified educators

  • Immediate PDF download upon purchase with unlimited use

  • Activity pages, extension activities, and additional resources included at no cost

  • Developmentally appropriate

  • Printable format that is also digital friendly with links and QR codes embedded in the lesson plans

Camp Outline:

  • Arrival activity
  • Class discussion- Discuss H2O
  • Walking water rainbow
  • Let’s get moving – Bucket brigade
  • Water balloon toss
  • Hands-on activity- Oil and watercolor painting
  • Social-emotional learning – Ice towers
  • Water balloon parachutes
  • Reflection

  • Arrival activity
  • Class discussion- Facts about the water cycle
  • Water balloon baseball
  • Let’s get moving – Grab the water bottle
  • Hands-on activity – Evaporation art
  • Pass the water
  • Social-emotional learning – Oil and water
  • Duck, Duck, SPLASH!
  • Reflection

  • Arrival activity
  • Class discussion – Bodies of water
  • Sponge-worthy
  • Let’s get moving – Spray bottle tag
  • Wet fashion show
  • Hands-on activity – Water balloon towel toss
  • Social-emotional learning – We take water for granted
  • River race
  • Reflection

  • Arrival activity
  • Class discussion- Facts about the ocean
  • Ocean art project
  • Let’s get moving – Ocean wave
  • Hands-on activity – Ocean in a bottle
  • Ocean layers
  • Social-emotional learning – Deserted Island challenge
  • Beach bag relay race
  • Reflection

  • Arrival activity-
  • Class discussion – Water as a resource
  • Dizzy waiter challenge
  • Let’s get moving – Water bottle toss
  • Splash relay
  • Hands-on activity – Sprinkler red-light green-light
  • Social-emotional learning – Water balloon juggle
  • Freezy Tees
  • Reflection