27 Fun Summer Activities for Kids (No Screen Required)

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Stock up on fun educational activities for your kids this summer that are sure to keep them occupied for hours. From arts and crafts to card games, the "I'm boreds" and "What is there to do's?" are a thing of the past. 

Tenzi

You won't know the fun you can have with a simple set of dice until you've played Tenzi. Object: Be the first player to get all 10 of your dice to show the same number.

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Nauvoo Temple Brick Set

735 pieces, including customized temple spires, windows, doors, and an angel Moroni figurine.

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Map of the World Puzzle

Packaged in a travel-friendly drawstring fabric pouch, this puzzle features a colorful map which includes illustrations of animals and landmarks on each of the seven continents. (36 pieces, 12x9”)

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Plus-Plus Neon Blocks

Whether for young kids, tweens or 'kidults', everyone will love using their imaginations with Plus-Plus Tube mixes. Just one simple shape will give them endless possibilities and hours of fun.

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Star Cube

Stars turn into cubes, cubes turn into 12 point stars, all right before your eyes! This transforming geometric puzzle is a wonder to behold, as it perpetually transforms from one cube to another. This is an unusually addicting and stress-free educational tool! Each cube has 24 square faces.

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Make Your Own Type Kit

Create your own hand-lettered craft with a practice sketchbook, 12 tracing paper sheets, and 24 printed sheets with alphabets and art to trace. This kit includes a sketchbook, stencils, tracing paper, washi tape, ruler, and gel pens.

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Creatibles D.I.Y. Eraser Kit

The Creatibles DIY Eraser Kit is easy as 1, 2, 3. You build it, bake it, and erase with it. Make all sorts of amazing eraser creations with this DIY kit. Creatibles comes with 12 pliable clay colors that can be mixed for an endless number of hues.

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Paint by Sticker Kids: Zoo Animals

Young readers can create 10 bright and playful low-poly artworks featuring favorite zoo animals, one sticker at a time. The boredom-busting fun of stickers meets the joy of paint by number.

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Flower Garden Coloring Roll

Enjoy coloring fun with Mudpuppy's Flower Garden Mini Coloring Roll which features a lush, vast garden just waiting to be filled in! Perfect for travel and on-the-go fun, crayons included! (5.5 x 30’, continuous coloring roll)

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Brain Games Word Workout

Word Workout will give you a fun language boost with word puzzles and tile games. Inside you'll find: 144 high-contrast alphabet tiles in an easy-to-store zipper pouch; instructions and scoring for five fun tile games to suit any size group and five 32-page booklets full of challenging word-puzzle fun.

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Striped Kendama

These deluxe Striped Kendamas are solid wood construction and measure seven inches tall. Colors may vary. Includes one per order.

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Bananagrams

Bananagrams is a fast and fun word game that requires no pencil, paper, or board. All you need is a table. One hand can be played in as little as five minutes. Great family fun as well as being educational!

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Bellz

Players use the magnet wand to pick up bells of only one color. Make a string off the end of the magnet wand, or create a cluster — just don’t pick up bells of any other color or the turn is over. The first player to collect all 10 bells of one color wins! 

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Amaze

A maze that changes every time you play! Players must navigate this maze game using the attached stylus, pushing open movable gateways while avoiding traps and dead ends!

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Rory's Story Cubes

Rory's Story Cubes is a pocket-sized creative story generator, providing hours of imaginative play for all ages. With Rory's Story Cubes, anyone can become a great storyteller and there are no wrong answers. Simply roll the cubes and let the pictures spark your imagination.

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Feed the Woozle

Feed the Woozle—An Award-winning game of silly snacks and mixed-up moves! Chocolate covered flies and hairy pickles? Yummy! The big-mouth Woozle is hungry. Can you feed him 12 silly snacks from the spoon before all the snacks are gone? Play together, work together, and have some monstrous fun!

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Usborne Pencil and Paper Games

Whether your battery's flat, you're suffering from “screen fatigue,” or you just prefer traditional games, this write-in, tear-off pad is for you, featuring over 100 games to play.

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Math Dice

This mentally challenging and fun dice game helps players sharpen math skills by solving problems in a fun new way. Ages 8 and up.

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Belly Laugh Knock-Knock Jokes for Kids

Belly Laugh Knock-Knock Jokes for Kids is packed with both classic and original knock-knock jokes to make readers keel over in laughter. Developed to meet the needs of the millions of children eternally hungry for joke books.

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Telestrations

With multiple books being passed around between players, everyone is either sketchin', passin' or guessin'—then laughin' at each other’s Big Reveal. It’s non-stop entertainment for all!

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Nephites vs. Lamanites Chess and Checker Set

Nephites vs Lamanites chess & checkers set, made from vinyl. The Book of Mormon figure Nephi (chess king) holding the Liahona in his left hand and the sword of Laban in his right. 3-7/8" tall. The chess board is 14" x 14". Ages 4 and up.

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Qwirkle

Qwirkle is as simple as matching colors and shapes, but this game also requires tactical maneuvers and well-planned strategy. Earn points by building rows and columns of blocks that share a common shape or color.

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Hangman

A classic word game with a twist! Kids will love thinking up words to stump their opponent, or taking their best guess to win it all! Includes one Hangman game board with erasable whiteboard, self-storing dry-erase marker, and eraser. No loose pieces—ideal for travel!

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Slapzi

The fast-matching, card-slapping, everyone-laughing picture game! SLAPZI is super simple to learn and super fast to play!

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Flip Cup

A steady hand and nerves of steel are needed for this bracket-tournament-style game. Face off against your opponents, working your way up the bracket until you are the Flip Cup Champion.

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Magnetic Sketcher

The perfect drawing pad for the car! These magnetic sketchers provide endless drawing fun. Draw with the special pen and swipe the board clean to start again. Available in assorted translucent colors, each sold separately.

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Make It with a Cake Mix

With dozens of recipes that ensure all of the flavor and none of the fuss, you don't have to be a professional chef to create bakery-worthy sweets in your own kitchen. Grab your kids and spend a fun day whipping up something sweet.

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