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Summer Camp Week Two

Vroom, Vroom - Vehicle Week (June 10-15th)

  • This week, our summer camp theme is All About Vehicles! Does your little one love making tracks with wheels? Have your little racer drive their vehicles through the paint and onto the paper to create colorful tracks. Keep on reading for daily activities to do with your kiddos this week.

    Want more activities to do with your kids this summer? Check out our full class schedule here. New to FIT4MOM? Sign up for a free class here.

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Monday Craft

Vehicle Tracks Craft

  1. Grab your vehicles, paper, washable paint and a plate
  2. Pour paint onto paper plate or tray
  3. “Drive” your vehicle through the paint
  4. Use the paint on the wheels to paint car tracks on your paper
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Tuesday Science

Vehicle Science - Ramps & Acceleration

  1. Gather up all kinds of vehicles from around the house, cardboard boxes and painters/masking tape
  2. Use the cardboard to make ramps of all different sizes. Have the cars race, observe which go fastest, farthest, and slowest. You could even measure. Talk about why the cars did what they did. Have fun making guesses about what will happen and why.
  3. Bonus - use the tape to make roads and parking lots all over the house
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Wednesday Snack

Banana Car

  1. Grab bananas, kiwi, pretzels, teddy grahams or bunny grahams, tooth picks, cutting board and child safe knife (if you plan to let your child help cut).
  2. Peel bananas and kiwi
  3. Cut bananas in thirds and kiwi into circles
  4. Use the tooth picks to attach the kiwi wheels to the banana car
  5. Add a pretzel steering wheel and a teddy graham or bunny graham driver
  6. Eat!
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Thursday Story Time

Some of our favorite vehicle themed books:

  • Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by: Mo Willems
  • The Little Engine That Could by: Watty Piper
  • Go Dog Go by: P.D. Eastman
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Friday Activity

Off Roading to the Car Wash

  1. Grab tray, bowl or bin, mud, dish soap, scrub brush or sponge, towel and vehicles

  2. Mix up a bit of mud on your tray. Establish the rules “mud stays on the tray” or “if the mud is off the tray that’s showing me you are all done” “where does the mud stay? That’s right on the tray”

  3. Let children play with the vehicles in the mud

  4. Once they are done with the mud, send the vehicles to the car wash. Fill a bowl or bin with soapy water and let the children scrub the cars clean

  5. Lay them on a towel to dry out

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In Person Class Schedule

Join us for Stroller Strides, mommy and me, classes this week!

M/W/Sat 9am at Chandler Fashion

T/TH 9am at Tiger Rock Martial Arts, Gilbert

Fri 9am at Swimhaus Swim School, Gilbert