Educational Activities for Families

There are so many ways to learn together as a family! Below, there are several free/low-cost ideas to create new and exciting memories. Remember, take pictures of your acitivities so you can share them with the class!

  • Go camping at a state park
  • Visit the local zoo or the aquarium
  • Take a hike to a waterfall
  • Create a scavenger hunt around your backyard or neighborhood
  • Conduct your own scientific experiment
  • Go outside to look at the clouds. Identify the types of clouds you see and if any them look like silly characters
  • Make your own bubbles and see whose recipe makes the largest and smallest bubbles
  • Find a local cultural festival and eat new food and experience the new culture
  • Visit your local library and check out an exciting, new book
  • Create your own paint with nature that you find outside. Figure out what elements make the best and most vivid colors
  • Schedule a tour at your local firehouse and learn all about fire safety
  • Visit the local children's museum
  • Go outside on a clear night, and look up at the stars. Try to identify constellations!