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Tell your class they’re all cooks and they need to come up
with the ingredients for the best recipe for summer.
Unfortunately, not all students/teachers get to spend their summers away from the city. In
this case, here is an activity to “summerize” a city landscape. On a large piece of construc-
tion paper draw the map of a busy city. Remember to leave space around the
buildings/streets of your city. Ask your students to draw what would make the city a better
place for someone to spend their summer holidays in.
Ask your students to draw hearts on a piece of paper and write inside what makes summer
special to them. Encourage them to share the summer feeling they most miss throughout
the year (e.g. being carefree) and discuss what they can do to feel this way the rest of the
year (e.g. stop stressing out and trying to relax more). Ask them to write their bits of advice
on post-it notes. When everyone is done, stick the post-it notes on a piece of A3 paper and
create a class “Summer all year long” poster.
Bring balloons and ask students to write a summer wish for their classmates. Put the wish-
es in the balloons, inflate them and then ask students to randomly choose a balloon, pop it
and find out what their summer wish is.
Summer wouldn’t be the same without music, so ask your students to create their own
track lists with their 5/8/10 etc. favourite summer tracks and explain why they make their
summer great. You can turn this activity into a stranded island records one, too.
Thank you, Maria!