Take a Swim!

Take an indoor swim in the bathtub or an outdoor swim in a kiddie pool!  Grab some water toys and towels. Play games with water toys you make yourself.

Here are ideas for colorful floating water toys you can make:

Word Eggs – Use a set of plastic eggs and a permanent marker.  Write consonants on one half of each egg and write different word families on the other half of each egg.  Mix and match the egg halves and try to read the words.  Pick these word families to get started:  at, an, ape, ake, ed, en, ee, ell, ig, ish, ine, ick, ock, op, ot, one, ug, un, ue, ut.

Sylla-Balls – Use 3 floating play balls and a permanent marker.  Write a 1, 2 or 3 on each ball.  Toss the balls back and forth.  When a player catches a ball they must shout out a word that has the number of syllables shown on the ball they caught.