Central Bedfordshire Council (CBC) has launched a booklet of free summer activities which is full of fun activities for parents and young children!
It contains over 30 fun ideas that can be done with little or no resources, or with things that might already have around the house.
It has been designed to help young children develop skills such as hand eye co-ordination and counting and help them learn new words and develop an awareness of nature.
The activity booklets are free and are available to collect from Central Bedfordshire’s Children’s Centres.
They have been designed so parents and children can tick off each activity once they have completed it.
Some of the activities include:
- Planting a sunflower seed to help children understand nature, the life cycle of a plant and how to measure
- Making rainbow fruit ice lollies to help children understand melting and freezing
- Going on a summer flower hunt to spot buttercups and daisies, helping children to learn new words and develop their observational skills
Central Bedfordshire has Children’s Centres located in following area:-
- Sandy
- Shefford
- Stotfold
- Flitwick
- Leighton Buzzard
- Houghton Regis and Dunstable
All of the locations are detailed here in this link
CBC has also developed winter and spring activity booklets, which they hope will be available from Children’s Centres in November and March.
They also have a range of activities for different groups. More details and available from the Central Bedfordshire’s Family Information Directory