Our summer fun activities archive includes fun and educational ways to keep ’em learning over the summer break.
Build a Straw Bridge: Summer Fun Activity
Explore engineering by building a straw bridge and testing its weight capacity.
Summer Fun Activity: Make a Mars Helicopter
NASA’s project provides step-by-step instructions for building a paper helicopter mimicking the real one on Mars.
Build a Box Kite ~ Summer Fun Activity
Colorful 4-page summer activity: build a box kite!
Summer Fun Activity: Launch It!
Summer Fun Activity: Launch It! is a Design Squad Challenge that involves building an air-powered rocket that can hit a distant target.
Build a Crane ~ Summer Fun Activity
5-page Design Squad Challenge from NASA involving building a crane using every day objects. Summer fun activity to keep ’em learning!
Build a Circuit ~ Summer Fun Activity
Educational summer fun activity: Build a Circuit. This free simulation lab makes it easy!
Make a Moon Phases Calendar ~ Summer Fun Activity
This free download from NASA contains everything you need to make a 2025 Moon Phases Calendar.
Map and Compass Activities ~ Summer Fun Activity
Summer is a great time to get outside and practice orienteering skills!
Summer Fun Activity: Build a Parachute
Keep ’em learning this summer: Easy instructions help you build a parachute and explore the forces of air.
Summer Fun Activity: STEM Challenge Cards
22 experiments each in the fields of science and engineering make a perfect summer fun activity to keep ’em learning!
Summer Fun Activity: NASA Optics Educator’s Guide
98-page download with STEM-focused optics activities for K–12.
Fold & Fly Paper Airplane Designs ~ Summer Fun Activity
Here is a great summer fun activity to keep hands busy: experimenting with these free 47 paper airplane designs!
Summer Fun Activity: 507 Mechanical Movements
Interactive site based on book by Henry T. Brown — summer learning fun!
Summer Fun Activity: Exploring the Extreme ~ Free NASA Educator’s Guide
NASA Educator’s Guide covering gravity, jet propulsion, and more!
10 End-of-Summer Ideas
Summer is winding down. Celebrate the end of summer with these 10 educational and fun ideas!
Summer Fun Activity: Learning Synths
Interactive helps students explore the elements of sound in a fun and engaging way.
Activity: Creative Writing with the Random Word Generator
Use a random word generator to keep your children writing every day!
Make a Balloon Rocket ~ Summer Fun Activity
Make a balloon rocket with these four items!
Summer Fun Activity: Total Solar Eclipse
From our view the moon moves in front of the sun and for a few minutes covers the sun, casting a shadow on earth.
Make a DIY Wind Chime ~ Summer Fun Activity
Fun, useful, educational, and creative! Resources to make a wind chime!
Summer Fun Activity: Bug Scavenger Hunt
Certainly plenty of bugs to find in the summer! Here are a few ideas for making your bug scavenger hunt.
Summer Fun Activity: Make a Travel Kit
Let your child make his own travel kit and look forward to using it.
Photographic Wrap-Up ~ Summer Fun Activity
Here is a summer fun activity with purpose: create a photographic summer wrap-up collage!
Summer Fun Activity: Build Paper Boats
Besides being just plain fun, learn a little math, practice arts and crafts skills, and enjoy races and water fun while building paper boats.
Summer Fun Activity: Scavenger Hunt!
Develop skills in a fun way while staying active: Summer is a great time to enjoy a scavenger hunt!
Summer Fun Activity: Roll-A-Challenge
200 different challenges to keep ’em learning this summer: make, use, and do.
Summer Fun Activity: Radar & Weather Together
71-page educational resource and perfect summer fun activity to keep ’em learning!
Giant Bubbles ~ Summer Fun Activity
Create giant bubbles and find out how bubbles get and keep their shape with this summer fun activity from Exploratorium.
Summer Fun Activity: Teddy at the Beach Cupcakes
Wrap up summer with these teddy-at-the-beach cupcake ideas!
Summer Fun Activity: Watermelon Science
Try watermelon science! Summer fun science experiments with watermelons!
Summer Fun Activity: Build a Sunspot Viewer
A way to view the sunspots on the sun without looking directly at the sun.
Summer Fun Activity: Feel the Heat {Free Download}
Ready to feel the heat of summer? Here is a fun summer activity experimenting with heat.
Summer Fun Activity: Make Your Own Mosquito Repellent
Experiment with different ways of making your own mosquito repellent.
Summer Fun Activity: Solar Observation
Free solar observation lesson from NASA covering ultraviolet and infrared radiation.
Summer Fun Activity: Summer Memory Jar
Memory jar can hold special things collected over the entire summer — memories in the making.
Summer Fun Activity: Tying Knots!
When it gets too hot to stay outside, and little hands are looking for something to do, keep them busy tying knots!
Summer Fun Activity: Explore the Ocean
Summer is a great time to explore the ocean by designing your own ocean unit study.
Summer Fun Activity: Create Pure Water With a Solar Still
Enjoy drinking pure water from your own solar still.
Summer Fun Activity: Make a Nature Walk Bracelet
Make a summer nature walk bracelet by attaching small nature treasures to sticky-tape.
Summer Fun: Easy Homemade Ice Cream {Roll the Can}
Use the “roll the can” method of making ice cream while learning the science behind how it works with these easy directions.
Summer Fun Activity: Build a Solar Oven
Educational and fun, building your own solar oven can provide tasty summer treats!
Summer Fun Activity: Sun Prints
If you put something on the paper to block or obstruct the sunlight from reaching that space, you can make patterns.