Soaring High – A Kid Friendly Amazing Week on Flight: Hot Air Balloon Day

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Welcome to our “Soaring High – Flight Week” an at home week filled with days of relaxed learning and fun activities all themed to things that can fly as well as some famous flight pioneers! 

For this day, we learned all about one of the first flying contraptions – the hot air balloon!  Read on to check out a fun filled day of learning, reading, crafts, and activities all on this wondrous, flying machine

A TYPICAL DAY

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All kids are different and you can definitely vary your day with whatever works for you 🙂   Our relaxed & learning fun day kicks off with an introduction to the day’s theme.  Then, we move onto videos and themed activities (reading, writing – or story telling – time, crafts, food crafts/snacks, and games or experiments).  Feel free to pick and choose whatever works for you 🙂

INTRO

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Today was part science, part history, and all parts adventure!  Hot air balloons capture the imagination of so many even if one hasn’t been on one!  If you’re looking for some more quick facts, check out these great sites: 

WHAT TO WATCH 

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We find that mixing in a short video themed to our day is a great way to add some learning fun!  We try to pick informative videos OR mix in a cartoon favorite (where they don’t even realize they’re learning).  Below are some of the videos we picked from for the day:  

FOOD CRAFTS / SNACKS

What’s more fun than taking a break and having a simple snack???  Including the snack in your theme of the day!   We find that our kiddos are more than happy to eat the snacks they create especially when they can arrange them into fun shapes and scenes! 

For our snack of the day, we created Hot Air Balloon Muffins by KiwiCo!  Fun & delicious!

READING

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It’s no secret that reading is an important part of learning, which is why we pick out a handful of books that are fun and filled with some learning tidbits. For our older ones, we have them fill out some worksheets (or let them create some of their own comics) to describe what they read and/or learned!  These are a few we picked from for the day:

  • Up and Away!: How Two Brothers Invented the Hot-Air Balloon by Jason Henry
  • Up & Down: The Adventures of John Jeffries, First American to Fly by Don Brown

WRITING & WRITING PROMPTS

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Just like reading, writing is a great way to keep kids learning by both encouraging their creativity and thought process as well as helping them practice their motor skills and penmanship.

If you’ve got a little one, have them trace words related to the theme: FLIGHT, HOT AIR BALLOON

If you’ve got older children, have them write a sentence or two up to a page or two (depending on their age). Encourage them to be creative AND give reasons for why they made certain choices.  This was our writing prompt of the day (and we offered up some examples as well) but definitely pick something your kiddo might be interested in writing about!

  • Imagine you were one of the first to fly in a hot air balloon.  Where would you go?  Would your adventure go as planned? 
  • Small animals were the first passengers of hot air balloons.  What types of animals would you send upward in the first balloon tests? 
  • Write a short story about a kid who had to get to school in a world where there were no airplanes or helicopters, only hot air balloons. 

CREATE & CRAFT

If you’ve got a crafty little one, a simple craft is a great way to keep them interested in the topic.  While their creative juices are flowing, you can also chat about what they’ve learned so far or ask them what else they’re excited about learning! 

For our crafts of the day, we created a picked from a few Hot Air Balloon crafts: 

STEM & STEAM ACTIVITIES

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While crafting and writing get their creativity and imagination flowing, we also like to add in an activity that gets them thinking along the lines of science, technology, engineering, or math!  These engaging activities or experiments are a great way to keep them learning!

THANK YOU

Thank you for checking out our at home learning fun article!  If you enjoyed this post, please let us know what you think in the comments below and/or follow us on Pinterest.

Also, if you haven’t already, check out some of our other Soaring High -Flight Week Days or our other DIY At Home Camps!

Happy Learning!

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