July 4th and Summer What Am I? Puzzles

More free What Am I? puzzles to entertain your summer vacationers this week! Above is a July 4th themed puzzle. That holiday is coming up very soon! And below is the second Summer themed puzzle. Hope your kids like these!

Summer Road Trip Puzzles

Road Trips are back! Everything has been on hold for so long since the start of the pandemic, it's really awesome that people are getting vaccinated and we can get back to living! Ginny and I just made a quick road trip to VA Beach to visit family and friends. It was so nice to get out and about with fewer worries (we were still a bit nervous honestly!) 

We even got down to the beach and wandered along the boardwalk. Here's a picture of us hanging out with Neptune!

So if your family is getting ready to hit the road this summer, consider printing some puzzles to keep those kids busy in car. I have some Road Trip puzzles that I wrote a number of years ago. You can find here. There are visual puzzles, word puzzles and even scavenger hunts! I remember having a lot of fun with scavenger hunts on long car trips when I was a kid.

This blog has a list of some other fun games you can play with your kids while you drive. We played the License Plate game and the Alphabet game all the time when I was growing up. The Alphabet game is great because it requires no preparation. We always play this one cooperatively, so that everyone watches all the signs looking for the next letter of the alphabet. It is good fun! Ghost is a word game that can be played very easily in the car also. You need good spellers for this one! It's great for teens and adults. I have taught my kids these games too, and we still play them on car trips! 

I hope you all have some lovely and SAFE trips this summer!

National Iced Tea Day

June 10th is National Iced Tea Day! I heard about it on the radio this morning and remembered that I had created a puzzle about the 1904 World's Fair which is where iced tea first became super popular. The puzzle is called What's Left? and requires solvers cross words off in a grid by rows and columns that meet certain criteria. The words that are left finish an interesting fact. This one is about the 1904 World's Fair! I included it in the Missouri state mini-book because that fair took place in St Louis, MO. This puzzle and the Missouri Mish Mash that accompanies it are included in the set for upper level elementary students. You can find that set here in my TpT store. You can also find the lower elementary set here.

Anyhow, I thought it would be fun to put this puzzle page out for free today as a way to celebrate this delicious day! I hope you and yours enjoy the puzzle page while drinking some iced tea. Do you like yours sweetened or unsweetened? I find presweetened tea is usually too sweet for me so I like it straight!

More free What Am I? puzzles

I really enjoy writing these puzzles! I have more on my mind, so watch out for those throughout the summer. Above is a Summer themed What Am I? puzzle and below is the second Math themed one. At least one more math and summer ones will be coming. Do you have any suggestions for a puzzle theme?

Enjoy!

Summer Mish Mash - free puzzles

Summer is near! Here are some Summer themed puzzles to get your kids ready for the season! These puzzles are called Mish Mash puzzles. They contain 10 words that have been busted in half. The goal is to mash them back together again. There are 3 puzzles with words of different lengths, including 6 letter words, 8 letter words and 10 letter words.

I suggest that you give your students the 10 letter word puzzle first. It seems like the longer words will be harder, but the halves are 5 letters long and that actually provides more feel for what the words might be. And that makes them easier to solve! The 6 letter word puzzle is more difficult to solve with only 3 letters in each half. (Note: SHOVEL is not one of the words in the 6 letter puzzle!)

Click on any of the above pictured puzzles to download a PDF file that contains all 3 puzzles plus a complete answer key. I hope your kids enjoy solving these puzzles!