Summer Book Camp - Day 4

We are onto our next book for our Summer Book Camp. We have been reading books from the library and doing fun activities for each one. This is no-plan summer fun. The kids pick the books and I do a quick search of activities and then we do them. No fuss. If I don't have it on hand, I substitute or we just can't do it. I try to sneak in some learning or reviewing when possible. And all of these books go towards J's goal of reading 100 books this summer. If we have plans for the day, we don't do it and we don't worry about it. No fuss, just fun.

Our next book was chosen by Kaleb - Carrots Grow Underground by Mari Schuh.  This was a timely pick since we are currently growing carrots in our box garden as we speak. They weren't, however, ready to pick. I have been collecting carrot activities to do with The Carrot Seed for some time now, so finding activities for this book was easy. The hard part was picking just a few activities!

We started our activities with a simple cut-n-paste of the growth of a carrot seed. This printable was found at Education.com. I had to sneak some science into this:)

A simple and easy craft we did was to make carrots prints using corks and orange paint. After the paint dried, they added green tops.

Here is a completed photos of our carrot garden. I couldn't take any photos of the process since I was trying to prevent orange footprints on my floor! But I even had the chance to add baby Riley's piggies to the mix.

J's carrot garden picture using the corks. Pretty cute. My favorite, though, is the footprint picture which is hanging up in my dining room/homeschool room.

Links

My Pinterest Board for The Carrot Seed

My Pinterest Board for Summer Book Camp

Education - has the free printable carrot seed life cycle.

One Kreiger Chick - has the idea for the carrot footprint.

Crafty Morning - has the idea for the fingerprint carrots, we just used corks for less mess.

Pamela Holderman - has a super cute idea for a garden picture. I really wanted to do this but time wouldn't allow. I like that you could take this farther and discuss/make other veggies that grow underground.