Summer Activity Guide

Planning for summer just got a whole lot easier! We heard your concerns about how to maintain engagement throughout an atypical summer and have developed a suite of fun and engaging activities and challenges designed specifically to accommodate COVID-19 summer. The Summer Activity Guide is a suite of fun and engaging activities and challenges designed specifically for this atypical summer. 

The Summer Activity Guide provides you with student activities and challenges adapted for in-person and virtual instruction, or a hybrid of both, as well as sent as take-home packets. Over the course of the summer 150 activities will be released in batches, so check back every two weeks to find new and exciting activities to do and share with your students.

Features:

150 Activities and Challenges (batches of activities will be released every two-weeks)

  • Organized by four different age groups (5-9) (10-12) (13-15) (16-18)

  • Adaptable for in-person and virtual instruction, or a hybrid of both, as well as sent as take-home packets

  • Based in skill building & social emotional learning

Materials for Professional Development and Enhancing Family Engagement

  • Webinars

  • Quick Guides

  • Feedback Form

  • Implementation Videos

Webinar Recordings

Getting to Know the New Summer Activity Guide - This webinar will dive into the structure and elements of the activities for each age group so that participants feel comfortable facilitating every component of these lessons.

Keeping Youth Engaged this Summer - Join this webinar to learn more about effective positive youth development practices and how to use the new Summer Activity Guide and to effectively engage with youth through different delivery models.

The Summer Activity Guide has been developed for the 50 State Afterschool Network with leadership from the Georgia Statewide Afterschool Network with funding support from the Alaska Afterschool Network to engage and support children and youth nationwide.