Ahoy! Save yourself from walking the plank of summertime boredom this final week by checking out Au Pair in America’s summer fun theme PIRATES!
- Use paper cups to create a telescope!
- How about some coloring pages
- Try playing Pirate treasure hunt.
- Create a sailboat lunch!
- Create a treasure map
- Make a treasure hunt pizza for a fun lunch!
- Create a Pirate name!
- Make a pirate sword!
- See if you can find your way through the pirate treasure maze!
Virtual Field Trips:
Books:
- How I Became a Pirate. Pirates have green teeth—when they have any teeth at all. I know about pirates, because one day, when I was at the beach building a sand castle and minding my own business, a pirate ship sailed into view.
- How to be a Pirate. CeCe dreams of being a pirate. When the neighborhood boys tell her that she can’t, she wonders where to begin. Luckily, she suspects her grandpa must know something about being a pirate–why else would he have all those tattoos?
- Pirates Magnified! Ahoy, shipmate! Explore the lives of 10 real pirates and learn about life on the high seas, whilst using the magnifying glass—included inside the book’s foil-accented cover—to spot more than 200 pirate-themed items in 16 eye-boggling illustrations.
Pirate. A DK Eyewitness Book.Take a close-up look at the colorful–and cruel–robbers of the sea. Sink into this exciting introduction to the world of sea-thieves – their origins, adventures and blood-thirsty battles. Learn who devised the terrifying Jolly Roger, how a surprisingly disciplined life was maintained aboard pirate ships, and what cunning ruses pirates used to lure merchants to their doom. Everything you ever wanted to know from why European kings and queens encouraged piracy to what pirates ate at sea.
Photo by: Leonid Mamchenkov