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LeapFrog Summer Camp Week 2: Caring for Animals

Summer Learning Activities for Kids: Caring for Animals

Growing up with pets can help children develop a sense of responsibility, which contributes to their self-confidence. Relationships with animals can help them develop non-verbal communication skills, as well as compassion and empathy towards both animals and people. Children often talk to their pets as they do to their stuffed animals, contributing to their verbal communication and self-expression skills.

This week of LeapFrog activities is designed to inspire new experiences with animals and to consider themes of responsibility and compassion. Here’s to making some new fluffy friends!

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perfect puppy pad printable

The Perfect Puppy Pad

Start a conversation with your camper about what pets need and what it means to be responsible for a pet. Then collect things from your house and from friends and neighbors to donate to your local animal shelter. Many animal shelters accept pet food, old towels, bath mats, blankets, bedding, cleaning supplies and chew toys.
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Take a picture with your pet or your shelter visit for our weekly contest!

make a birdhouse activity

Make a Birdhouse

Design and build a birdhouse using a cardboard or plastic milk carton. This activity will challenge your child to think about what birds need (shelter from predators, something to stand on, and so on). Through hands-on projects like this, kids gain experience with engineering concepts.
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Take a photo of your finished birdhouse to enter our contest!

birdfeeders

Tweet Tweets

Create a bird feeder with your camper using suet and peanut butter. Then spend some time observing the birds that visit. Research the birds in a book or on the Internet to find out more about them. Try hanging the feeder in different areas. What time of day do the birds come? What happens when several birds show up at once?
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Take a picture of your feeder for our weekly contest!

animal babies printable

Animal Babies

Help your camper learn the names for animal babies. With a little help from Leo, LeapSchool's zoologist, your camper will get to know baby elephants, sharks, zebras and more!
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fathers day printable

Dad, You Rock!

Have your camper color a card to give to dad on Father's Day, June 17. Print our coloring page featuring characters from the Tag Junior Book: ABC Animal Orchestra.
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caring for animals certificate

Animal Adventure

Congrats! Your camper's a Tip-Top Tailwagger!

This weekend, visit the zoo, county fair or farm to find out more about our animal friends. Extend the learning by looking for animals that start with a single letter and write them on a list (find a lion, llama, leopard, lizard and lemur!). Or try to find an animal for every letter of the alphabet. Prepare some questions in advance to boost learning opportunities.

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Extra Credit

Go wild with even more animal adventures:

  • Get to know the Pet Pals puppies! This 11-page Pet Pals coloring book features furry friends from LeapFrog's popular Pet Pals games.
  • Print Puppy Care and match puppies with the things they need.
  • Print and color the letters in your name from the ABC Animal Orchestra.
  • Go birding and boost knowledge of feathered friends in your neighborhood.
  • Learn about taxonomy, cutting out pictures of animals and grouping them into categories.
  • Collect and observe insects in your backyard.
  • Visit the library or look online to find out about an animal. Write or draw about the animal. Where does it live? What does it eat? What are its babies called? Describe one other interesting fact about the animal.

What Is LeapFrog Summer Camp?

If you think that learning should always be in season, you’re right! Studies have shown that when students return to school after a long summer vacation, they've lost about one month’s worth of learning.†

LeapFrog Summer Camp is designed to keep the learning going all summer long through exciting weekly themes and free, do-anywhere learning activities that explore geography, writing, science, art and more. Sign up to receive a Summer Camp email every other week.

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We Want to Hear From You!

What's your favorite Week 2 activity? Is your family enjoying LeapFrog Summer Camp?