Memory Maker Journal
Camp Sunny Days
My Bright Year!
End-of-Year Memory Journal
Explorer:
Grade:
DRAW YOURSELF HERE! (With your biggest, brightest smile!)
Me in K-2!
Best Day Ever!
Draw your favorite school activity or field trip this year:
What happened?
I loved when we
☀️ Share your story with a friend! Page 1
Camp Sunny Days
Friends & Futures!
My Classmates & Next Steps
Friendly Faces
Draw a picture of you with your wonderful classroom friends or teacher!
Draw your friends here! 🎨
Next Year Hopes
What are you excited to learn next year?
I want to learn about
High-Five Club!
Color in each hand you finished this year!
Shared my toys & supplies
Read a whole book!
Learned brand new math!
🎈 You are ready for the next grade! Page 2
Summer Countdown Craft
Camp Sunny Days Craft
Summer Sunshine Countdown!
Color, Cut, and Paste to Create Your Own Challenge Sun!
Sunmaker:
Date:
✂️ How to make: Color the happy Sun and the 8 Challenge Rays. Carefully cut out the rays, then glue them on the dotted numbers around the Sun. Try to do one challenge each day!
Step 1: The Sun Base
GLUE HERE!
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After gluing, color in your finished sun to make it look super colorful! 🎨
Step 2: The Challenge Rays
Ray 1 📖 Read a book outside in the grass!
Ray 2 💦 Drink a cold glass of fresh water!
Ray 3 🌳 Draw a beautiful green tree!
Ray 4 🧸 Help clean up your room or toys!
Ray 5 👟 Do 10 giant, energetic jumping jacks!
Ray 6 🎨 Paint or color a bright summer sky!
Ray 7 🍉 Eat a sweet, delicious summer fruit!
Ray 8 💖 Tell a helper "Thank You very much!"
✂️ Ask an adult for help cutting! Summer Sunshine Craft
Recess Rodeo Games
Camp Sunny Days Games
Recess Rodeo Games!
Active Indoor & Outdoor Games to Celebrate the End of the Year
🏃 Pacing Tip: Cut these cards out, laminate them, and keep them on a metal ring for quick, high-energy recess or brain-break games all week!
☀️ Sun, Sun, Storm!
Outdoor
Setup: Circle on the grass.
1. One "cloud" walks around tapping shoulders saying: "Sun... Sun... Sun..."
2. When they shout "Storm!", the whole circle must stand up instantly!
3. Everyone jumps 3 times like a frog, spins around, and sits back down. The tapped player tries to tag the cloud before they sit!
Active Bonus: If tagged, the cloud must do 5 star-jumps!
🎵 Summer Freeze!
Indoor / Room
Setup: Standing beside desks.
1. Turn on happy summer music. Kids start dancing!
2. Call out a character action: 🏊 Swimming • 🍦 Melting Ice Cream • 🐝 Buzzing Bumblebee • 🏄 Surfboarding
3. Pause music! Students must freeze in that exact character pose without laughing!
Praise: Reward the most creative/frozen shape!
👥 Shadow Tag!
Sunny Outdoor
Setup: Open playground on a sunny day.
1. Choose 1 or 2 players to be the "Shadow Catchers".
2. Instead of touching a player's shoulder, the catcher must try to stomp on their shadow on the ground!
3. When tagged, the player shouts "Shadow Caught!" and does 5 giant claps to join the tag team.
Safety: Watch out for colliding heads. Keep eyes up!
🎈 Beach Ball Keepsie
Teamwork
Setup: Small groups or full circle.
1. Give each group 1 inflated beach ball (or soft balloon).
2. The goal is to keep the ball floating in the air. But there's a catch: you can only tap it with elbows, knees, or feet!
3. Count aloud together. Can your class get to 20 hits?
Variant: Use pool noodles to tap the ball around!
🏃 Let's keep moving and playing together! Recess Games
Summer Search Puzzles
Camp Sunny Days Puzzles
Summer Search Puzzles!
Fun Brain Exercises for Sunny Minds
Puzzler:
Date:
1. Mini Word Find
Find words going across (➡️) or down (⬇️)!
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Words to find:
☀️ SUN
🍦 ICE
🎨 PLAY
🎈 FUN
🏖️ BALL
🏊 SWIM
Color the word box when you find the letters!
2. The Sandy Path
Help the surfer find the ice cream beach bucket!
Color in the stones that form a connected bridge from START (🏄) to FINISH (🍦). Avoid the crabs 🦀 and stormy clouds ☁️!
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⭐ Great job! Your brain is so strong! Summer Search Puzzles