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LeapFrog Summer Camp Week 2: Puzzle Time

Summer Learning Activities for Kids: Storytelling

This week, encourage campers to express themselves creatively through storytelling, music, art, drama and pretend play. These activities help foster oral language development—a key component of overall literacy development. Whenever children are telling stories, singing songs or acting out a favorite story, they are developing skills such as sequencing events and recognizing rhymes; these skills are linked to future success with reading and writing. So talk and listen, explain things and ask questions, sing songs and make up simple chants. Turn car trips and walks to the park into opportunities to predict the weather based on the clouds, plan a birthday party or create your own silly limericks. And as you help your camper make predictions, outline plans and recognize the sounds and rhythms of language, be assured that you are reinforcing skills that will help them become good readers and writers in the years to come.

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Superhero Yourself

Tall? Funny? Thoughtful? Strong? Encourage your camper to create a superhero version of himself, starting with a list of attributes. Then it’s time to get creative!
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Take a photo of your camper's superhero to enter our contest!

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Tara Cotta's Discovery

Encourage your camper to go on an expedition and bring back a “treasure.” Then make up a story about it. Is it an animal? Soft or smooth? Real or make believe?
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kids with leappad cameras

Photo Mysteries

There's a mystery afoot in your neighborhood! Provide your camper with a camera and notebook. Armed with an active imagination, your camper is going to be a super (writing and reading) sleuth!
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Submit your camper's photo story to enter our weekly contest.

pirate printable

A Pirate's Life for Me

Argh! Provide your camper with this fun pirate printable that teaches adjectives! Encourage your camper to tell a salty story about his pirate! Thinking up and telling stories helps children develop their oral language and creative writing skills.
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Take a photo of your camper's pirate to enter our contest!

comic book template

Comic Book

Help your camper make a comic book about the superhero or pirate he created earlier in the week. Use the superhero or pirate image as the cover and insert comic book template pages for the story.
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On with the Show!

Super storytelling this week!

This weekend, take your family to a live performance. Even better, make your own! Encourage campers to tell their photo mystery stories or act out their comic book story. Use some of the crafts and instruments created during Art & Music Week to perform a family show or concert. Be sure to take photos and submit them for our weekly contest!

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Extra Credit

More ideas to build storytelling skills:

  • There is More to the Story! Encourage your camper to consider why simple events occurred—an important cognitive development skill—with this fun, printable activity!
  • Print these Scout & Friends stick puppets on heavy paper or cardstock and have your camper use her imagination to narrate a story.
  • Play Happy As Kings to inspire your child to stretch his imagination and find his inner storyteller!
  • Encourage your camper to illustrate Grimms' Fairy Tales with drawings and fashions.
  • Tell a pirate story and then have your camper do the same! Thinking up and telling stories helps children develop their oral language skills and become creative writers. Using pictures as aids can really get the ideas flowing.

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 activity from Week 6, Storytelling?