Summer Adventures & Adventure Boxes

Busy!~ that about sums up the last few weeks! =)
I have so much I want to blog about.. lots of outings, fun family days... I feel each thing deserves it's own post! So, in the next few days, There will be a few extra notes I would love to share with you~

For now, here are the Summer Adventure Boxes I put together for the kinders this week.  If you don't know what Adventure Boxes are Click here and scroll to bottom of the post .

So, I asked my kids what they would like to learn about this summer, and JT chose Dinos, KT chose Ocean life, and They both Chose Birds and Egypt... Here is what I put together for them..Egypt will have to wait.. =)

I would have loved to put some cool paper on the outside of these and really decorate these ( FREE) boxes, like here and here AND here ; but maybe next year.. getting these together was challenge enough! -=)

All of these items  for our boxes I have around the house, I just gathered them up, and pulled out a few things I have had in my stash, and put it together! All these things came from yard sales too! (thanks Jesus!)

Things I included for JT's Summer Adventure are:

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  Rub on stickers
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  slimy dino goo
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  grow a dino pack
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  dino sticker book (bought for dino museum tour)
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  how to draw dinos book & pencils
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  dinosaurs - to play with
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  Sand pit for dinos -
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  I can read Dino books
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  Search and Find dino book
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  and TONS of books on Dinosaurs, I found we have about 25 yikes!
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  Glow in the dark build your own dinosaur
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  dinosaur fossil digging adventure
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  dinosaur puzzles ( i just tossed these in a ziplock bag for space)

This Usborne Dino Kit - Rocked! It took TWO boys a good hour or more to get this apart! It was so much fun for them! (6 and 7 year old) It made my son and his New friend Mr G. ( blessing!) have a great time!

Here, I added some food coloring to the water and some garden rocks. This lasted hours!

Birds: Things I included for their  Summer Adventure are

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  How to draw birds
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  Ranger Rick magazines on birds (super yard sale find)
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  scramble North american bird puzzle
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  2 wooden birds
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  2 bird houses & paint ( local craft shop)
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  binnoculars ( not shown, )
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  bird watch list (not shown)
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  2 bird whistlers (not shown)
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  bird bingo (not shown, but ordered!)
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  birds of brittain and Europe book ( not shown, but ordered!)
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  container for bird feathers they find
  (that' it! i just don't have alot on birds this year.. =)
  **check out this amazing bird adventure box i just came upon

All about the Ocean Adventure box

Things I included for KT's Summer Adventure are

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  What lives in a Shell - book
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  Large shell (yard sale )
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  Beachy scrapbook for her (yard sale)
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  Ocean coloring book
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  Large bag of assorted sea shells
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  Ocean life preschool book (very excited about this!)
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  blue sand to play with shells in (local craft shop)
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  Large Coral ( yard sale find, great for touching!)
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  little dolphins for counting
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  assorted small shells for counting
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  The berenstain Bears Seashore Treasure
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  Usborne Fishies
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  Why are there Waves?  book
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  TONS of books on Ocean creatures!

This will be half on display on haf in a box for her to take out... Since the shells will need a nice place to "rest"

I always try to add in a Field trip if possible for more hands on learning, and this past weekend we were able to spend a few hours at the beach in Holland... Here she is ... loving the Ocean!

I am going to use those workboxes for these too! I decided my children have to ask me to get into the boxes, some things are for independant learning, and others they will need my help.. But I want it to be a special time for them, and ration it out so they don't "finish" it by next week! =) I think the workboxes would be great for that, great to cover reading  with all the books I have collected...

Next year, I will plan further ahead, and keep collecting during the year from yard sales and tossing into my "special" bins! This has made it affordable, and such a blessing for the children this year! Praise God for it all!