The perfect Summer writing and craft activity for grades 2-4!

Celebrate sunshine season with this print-and-go Summer writing pack! Your students will write opinions, share what they know about summer, and tell stories about their favorite summer activities, then build a vibrant "SUMMER" bubble letter craft with a smiling starfish, watermelon, lemonade, ice cream, crab, pineapple, and sun. It's a sunny mix of real writing practice and creative seasonal fun.

Most summer resources are coloring pages and word searches. This one teaches real writing skills wrapped in a summer theme. Students learn to share opinions with reasons, explain their thinking with main ideas and supporting details, and tell stories with characters and clear sequencing. You get to check off your writing standards while keeping your end-of-year (or summer school) classroom engaged.

Use it for end-of-year writing units, summer school, June/July/August writing centers, sub plans, morning work, early finishers, or your end-of-year bulletin board. The finished crafts make a stunning summer hallway display!

What's Included

• ✏️ 6 writing pages that match the 3rd grade writing standards:

• 2 opinion pages (share what you think about summer, with reasons and a full paragraph)

• 2 informative pages (main idea and supporting details about summer, plus an informative paragraph about a summer event)

• 2 narrative pages (use first/then/next to write about a summer activity, plus character development with main and supporting characters)

• ✏️ "SUMMER" bubble letter craft with starfish, watermelon, lemonade, ice cream, crab, pineapple, and sun accents, plus fun writing prompts on each letter, like "The best summer activity is…", "My favorite thing about summer is…", "My favorite summer treat is…", "Summer makes me feel…", "The best summer sound is…", "I love summer because…", "I feel happy when I ___ in the sun…", "In summer, I read books about…", and "My favorite summer holiday is…"

• ✏️ Editable PowerPoint files. Change the prompts to fit your class.

• ✏️ Print-and-go PDFs. No prep needed.

Why teachers love it

• ☀️ Real writing practice with a summer theme, not just coloring

• ☀️ Lines up with 3rd grade writing standards (W.3.1, W.3.2, W.3.3)

• ☀️ Teaches paragraph writing and character development, not just sentence frames

• ☀️ You can edit the prompts to fit your students

• ☀️ The vibrant SUMMER craft makes a stunning end-of-year bulletin board