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LeapFrog Summer Camp Week 2: Puzzle Time

Summer Learning Activities for Kids: Puzzle Time!

Promote problem-solving and exercise logic & reasoning skills with puzzles. Puzzles provide a great way to learn because they often involve using several different skills and thinking processes in a goal-directed activity. Even better, they usually require us to think creatively.

Puzzles such as matching and pattern recognition activities are a great way for young children to practice basic logic skills. Sequencing and number puzzles provide a fun way to practice basic math skills. Puzzles involving pictures and shapes often exercise children’s spatial reasoning and mental rotation skills. Word puzzles such as anagrams and hidden words are fun ways for children to practice spelling and build their vocabulary.

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Secret Message

Decode this secret message with your camper. This engaging activity gives kids a great feeling of accomplishment while building reading skills. They'll practice identifying and writing letters—important skills for reading and spelling.
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Swimming Fish Tessellation

Teach your camper about tessellations with today's art project. What's a tessellation, you ask? It's a repeated shape that fits together like a puzzle, with no overlaps or gaps. This style of art was made popular by the artist M.C. Escher.
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Climb Countin' Mountain

Practice sequencing numbers with your camper. Today's activity is to Climb Countin' Mountain. As the climbing coach, you'll help your camper recognize and order large numbers.
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A Pirate's Path

Learning to differentiate between and identify 2D polygons is an important early geometry skill. This printable activity reinforces that skill. To extend the learning, ask your child to name all the shapes he or she sees.
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greater than math maze printable

Greater Than Maze

This printable activity requires your child to identify numbers that are greater than or less than one another to solve the maze.
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Treasure Hunt!

Commend your camper on an a-maze-ing week!

This weekend, have more puzzle fun at home! Make a treasure map and challenge kids to find the buried booty in the back yard. This requires some preparation, but you can get really crafty with your clues: "Cross the river of snakes" (rubbers snakes laid across a path), "Turn right at the pirate skull" (a white balloon with a skull drawn on it), "Look beneath the sunken ship" (a toy boat in the bathtub)... you get the idea. Patches and pirate hats are required!

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Extra Credit

Can't get enough of the puzzle fun? Try these activities:

  • Print 3 A-Maze-ing Mazes that provide practice with pencil control and logic skills.
  • Try Pattern Puzzlers, a 5-pack of matching and pattern recognition activities for practicing basic logic skills.
  • Print this monster math guide with math problems for your child to solve. When each problem is solved, ask your child to design the monster. Get crafty and use different textured fabrics and other art supplies to make your monster unique.
  • Hop on the Jewel Train! Solve puzzles with your camper as you move tracks to help your train reach the station. Earn trainloads of jewels as you master the challenges!
  • Test your camper's summer vocabulary with this match-up printable.
  • Print a Color By Number to practice number recognition and decipher a simple code.
  • Decode secret messages with the keys provided.
  • Matching baby animals to their mothers in this printable requires your child to use logic and reasoning skills that will also uncover one of the secrets of math.
  • Prepare for Launch! Ask your child to use the launch codes to complete the patterns of colors and shapes. The ability to extend or duplicate patterns is a logical reasoning skill that forms a basis for future work in math (specifically, algebra!).
  • Use problem solving and visual observation skills to solve the Scout & Friends puzzle.
  • Make a maze or hopscotch board with sidewalk chalk.
  • Borrow a book of riddles from the library. What has a spine but no bones? What tells you things but cannot speak? A book, of course!

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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