26 Free Summertime Printables for Kids To Keep Them Busy!

Looking for a boredom buster for the summer or another time when you're stuck at home? This fun neighborhood outdoor scavenger hunt with sidewalk chalk is the perfect way to get the entire neighborhood involved yet do it on your own time at each family's convenience.

Keep your kids reading this summer (and all year round) with these free printable reading charts! They have a cute theme for each month!

This super fun Color Nature Scavenger Hunt is the perfect activity for sunny days. Preschoolers and toddlers and big kids too, will all have a field day collecting their pieces of nature and matching them to the colors on the printable scavenger hunt sheet. Ready, set, go!

These beach colouring pages will keep the kids busy this summer! There are 10 free printable colouring pages that can be downloaded and printed out. The seaside themed printables in this set include sandcastles, children playing on the beach, sun lotion, a bucket and spade, flip flops, sun glasses, a summer drink and a palm tree. There you have it, everything needed for a fun day at the beach!

Teach young kids all about the parts of a shark, plus the importance of shark conservation with these free printable shark worksheets. Sharks are mysterious, amazing and sometimes a little misunderstood. All of that makes the shark a perfect ocean animal to teach kids more about.

Grab this FREE printable Insect Scavenger Hunt and see who lives in your backyard! Young kids have a thing for bugs 🙂 Here's a super free printable Bug Hunt that you can use as you head outside to explore a few new things about your favorite insects!

Are you looking forward to Summer? To keep your children busy and kids learning,use this little Summer themed printable pack you can use with your kids! Enjoy your Summer! This printable pack is 6 pages + cover and it's not too heavy on color so you can save some ink when printing them out!

Are you looking for fun summer word search puzzles to do with your children or students? We've got exactly what you are looking for! And they are 100% FREE – what's better than being free?

Here's a fun ocean-themed coloring page which has seashells, a sea horse, sea star and coral. Just colour the motifs using your favourite pencil crayons. The possible uses for this colouring page and the paper embellishments are endless!

Make your picnic even more fun with this free printable picnic scavenger hunt full of things to look for and things to do on an outdoor picnic.

Preschool and Kindergarten students can work on tracing summer-themed words and coloring pictures in this free 15-page summer coloring pages packet. This 15-page summer-themed packet features 39 different small pictures that kids can color and then trace the word underneath the picture. There is a cute summer-themed cover that they can color as well.

Here are a few tips that will help you protect honeybees in your own backyard and get a FREE printable pollinator scavenger hunt for the kids.

You can use this fun Pollinator Scavenger Hunt anywhere from the backyard to the park. It can even be used at the local nursery inside your neighborhood home improvement store. Use it to find pollinators and pollen sources.

Supplement your under the sea themed unit studies with this fun and free ocean animal printable matching game for kids.

You can also use these ocean animal cards to reinforce color matching. All you need are the free printable ocean cards and some colored cardstock and you're all set!

Have you tried playing scavenger hunts? Even when you have little kids around, like toddlers and preschoolers, little ones who are still too young to read, you can use photo scavenger hunt. They will love to play backyard photo scavenger hunt and get necessary movement in close proximity to home!

Grab a copy of this FREE printable Beach Scavenger Hunt – one of our newest summer scavenger hunt ideas for kids & families! Summer time means beach time – sand, sun and water fun! While you're cooling off under the shade or your umbrella, keep kids occupied with this fun *NEW* scavenger hunt.

Crossword puzzles are a fun way for kids to work on vocabulary or to practice some spelling. Here are some free printable summer crossword puzzles for kids.

Playdough mats are one of the best learning tools! This free printable fish bowl playdough mat will help your child build fine motor skills, have some sensory fun and learn new vocabulary.

Print these free printable camping coloring pages and keep them in your camper or in your truck for easy, cheap, camping and hiking themed, fun activities for the kids to enjoy while you are camping (or heading to your campground). Not going camping? No problem! These fun coloring pages are still a ton of fun and would work great with any camping themed activities you might be hosting.

Countdowns are SUCH a fun way to build anticipation and excitement for a big event. There are so many great books for kids about school and about the first day of school. Grab a free copy of our Back to School Books Countdown and read, read, READ your way to the first day of school!

Give the kids some quiet time printables with these free summer connect the dots worksheets. They're the newest addition to the printable activities for kids collection.

This easy word search printable is a fun summertime activity for elementary-aged children to complete and color. It features words about sandcastles and the beach.

The Sandcastle Word Search is part of a small series for summer-related word searches that are all small, easy word search puzzles where the word search portion is found within whatever shape they are about.

Charades are a great game to play with friends of all ages and this camping charades game is sure to entertain! Whether you take this game on your next camping adventure or simply save it for entertainment at home, it's sure to be a crowd pleaser with young and old. Charades are a simple and easy game to play and this one is themed around all things camping.

Are you throwing a summer kickoff party? Use this free pineapple printable to make a tracer for a pineapple garland! This garland is so much fun to make. There are two sizes of pineapple to choose from.

Want a simple way for your kids to track how often they are reading this summer? These fun summer activities for reading bookmarks do the trick! Putting your child in charge of punching their bookmark every day that they read will really help them take responsibility for their own reading.

This printable camping bingo is perfect for rainy days, road trips, and backyard campouts. Enjoy screen-free family fun with these free printable camping bingo boards!

It's officially summer! Have your kids finished school for the year yet? Here's a fun Summer Word Scramble game as a free printable. All of the scrambled words have to do with summer.