Summer is here! After working hard all spring on various writing activities, It’s time to have fun and celebrate all of those great holidays while keeping young writers on track over vacation. Use these fun writing activities to enjoy the season, but also retain everything learned over the past year.
Summer Vacation Alphabet Book
Have child write a sentence and illustrate one page for each letter of the alphabet. The content for each page can be anything related to summer.
Movie Review and Poster
Select and watch a summer or dad-themed movie. Write a movie review and attach the review to a poster the child designed and colored him/herself.
Stand Up Story
Choose one of the writing prompts below and write about it. Then, create and color stand-up characters and setting pieces in order to retell the story to younger children who can’t read (people, houses, other locations, etc.). Use stiff tagboard for the stand-up pieces and stand them up by folding the bottom. If necessary, reinforce with a strip taped on the back and connected to the base.
Illustrated Summer Journal
Purchase or make a summery looking journal. Each day, have the student write a few sentences about that day in the journal with a different page for each day. Illustrate with pencil drawing, markers, stickers, or pictures cut from magazines or off the internet.
Writing Prompts Puppet Show
After writing about one of the prompts below, take the story and write a script for a puppet show. Make a small theater out of a box and make tagboard puppets mounted on popsicle sticks to present the puppet show to an audience.
Summer Writing Prompts for June, July, August
- Car Wash Craziness
- Too Much Sunshine
- The Secret of the Climbing Roses
- Lost at the Zoo
- A Day at the Farm
- My Dream Summer Camp
- The Picnic Project
- The Blueberry Blowout
- The Case of the Missing Sprinkler
- The Day the Lawnmower Went Crazy
- The Secret in the Sandbox
- My Perfect Vacation
Father’s Day Writing Prompts
- The Best Dad Ever
- My Hero, My Dad
- I Know My Dad Loves Me
- Dad and Me
- Playing with Dad
- Grandpas are Special Dads
- When I am a Dad
- My Dad Loves His Family
Fourth of July and Independence Day Writing Prompts
- The Great Fireworks Fiasco
- I’m Proud to be an American
- Red, White and Blue
- The Day I Met Thomas Jefferson
- The Time Machine Project: July 4, 1776
- My Independence Day Hero/Heroine
- The History of Independence Day
- Four Things Every American Should Do on Independence Day
Enjoying a great summer holiday is important. But it is also important to keep children on track academically during June, July and August. With these free and fun ideas, projects and writing prompts there will be plenty of writing activities to celebrate Father's Day, the Fourth of July and Independence Day.
Sallie Schaaf Borrink - Sallie Borrink is a professional writer with extensive experience with business clients, the consumer market, and online destinations.
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