Best Day Ever

09/08/2026

🚂 ALL ABOARD for a brand-new week of afterschool fun!

Our NEW All Aboard After School Lesson Plan has pulled into the station! 🚉 Kids will spend the week exploring trains through five hands-on activities—one for every day of the week:

🔧 Maker Monday: Build and create
🔬 STEM Tuesday: Put math and science skills to work
🌎 Around the World Wednesday: Explore the history and impact of trains
🎨 Artsy Thursday: Get creative with train-inspired art
🏃 Fit Friday: Get moving with locomotive-themed fun

Along the way, students will build a paper locomotive, measure model railroad tracks, create trains from shapes, discover how trains have changed over time, and even become trains while solving math problems!

👉 Explore the NEW All Aboard lesson plan: https://tinyurl.com/mwd4kvdr

09/07/2026

Happy Labor Day from the Best Day Ever team! 🛠️💼🥼

09/05/2026

📖 🐉 🥐 Ember isn't exactly the most fearsome dragon around—and it turns out he may be much better suited to baked goods than guarding a hoard of stolen gold.

The Bakery Dragon by Devin Elle Kurtz is a sweet and funny picture book that is also one of the suggested resources in our Bakers Kneaded Kids' Day Out lesson plan. Along with plenty of dragons and delicious treats, Ember's story opens the door to conversations about generosity, sharing, and finding the things that make each of us special.

It makes a fun read-aloud to add a little storytime to your baking-themed day!

🧁 And don't forget: Bakers Kneaded is FREE to download as our Kids' Day Out sample!

👉 Find the free lesson plan: https://tinyurl.com/rj76yd7n

09/03/2026

🍂✏️ NEW SCHOOL YEAR = NEW OST FUN!

Our Fall 2026 Best Day Ever! lesson plans are HERE, with brand-new themes and refreshed favorites to make planning for after school and school days off easier! 🎉

This year’s release includes:
🎒 10 After School plans – 5 NEW + 5 updated favorites
🎨 10 Kids’ Day Out plans – 6 NEW + 4 updated favorites

Each plan comes ready to use with complete schedules, materials lists, activity pages, and plenty of hands-on fun—all written by certified teachers and tested with real students.

And at just $4.50 per lesson plan, great programming doesn’t have to mean hours of planning or a big budget!

✨ Need more than one? Save when you bundle!

Explore the Fall 2026 collection (and our full catalog of OST plans) at bestdayever.fun

Best Day Ever! is an easy, affordable curriculum collection for summers camps, days off from school, and more. Written and tested by teachers, it offers ready-made, standards-aligned lesson plans adaptable to the needs of all learners.

09/01/2026

🍪 Today's special: a full day of NO COST programming!

When school is closed but your program is open, Bakers Kneaded has all the ingredients for a fun-filled Kids' Day Out—and you can download the entire lesson plan for FREE!

Designed for school-age children in grades K–5, this ready-to-use plan turns a day of baking-inspired fun into opportunities to create, experiment, move, problem-solve, and learn together.

👩‍🍳 One engaging theme
📅 A complete day of programming
🧁 Hands-on activities
📋 Materials lists & instructions
📄 Printable resources
💙 And absolutely NO COST to try!

Bakers Kneaded is our free Kids' Day Out sample, so it's also a great way to see exactly what you'll find inside our other Kids' Day Out plans before you buy.

👉 Download your FREE copy: https://tinyurl.com/rj76yd7n

08/29/2026

🌺🐢 How do you say your favorite animal in Hawaiian?

As part of a Hawaiian-themed day, why not introduce kids to a little bit of the Hawaiian language, too?

This adorable video helps children learn the Hawaiian names for different animals—a fun addition to the activities in our Hawaiian Luau Kids' Day Out lesson plan! 🐠🌴

And if your students want to keep learning, the whole channel is filled with videos that introduce Hawaiian words and language in a kid-friendly way.

🎥 Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta###Q_KUvM

It's a simple way to add a little more language and learning to your island-themed adventure! 🌺

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08/26/2026

👀 Want to see what's inside a Best Day Ever! lesson plan before you buy one?

Try one for FREE!

We have four complete sample lesson plans available to download on our website—one from each of our collections:
🍎 After School
🎉 Kids' Day Out
☀️ Preschool Summer Camp
😎 School-Age Summer Camp

Take a look at the schedules, activities, materials lists, printable resources, and step-by-step instructions to see whether Best Day Ever! is a good fit for your program.

No purchase required. Just download a sample and give it a try!

👉 Get your FREE samples: https://tinyurl.com/2rx3n5vs

Best Day Ever! is an easy, affordable curriculum collection for summers camps, days off from school, and more. Written and tested by teachers, it offers ready-made, standards-aligned lesson plans adaptable to the needs of all learners.

08/24/2026

🌺 No school? No problem. We've got the whole day planned!

School holidays, teacher in-service days, unexpected snow days—when kids are out of school but your program is open, Kids' Day Out lesson plans give you a full day of ready-to-use activities.

And with Hawaiian Luau, that day can come with an island getaway!

Students in grades K–5 will:
🌺 Create their own leis
💃 Learn to hula dance
🌋 Build a volcano
🏝️ Explore Hawaii's geography and discover what makes the islands so unique

It's a full day of hands-on activities, learning, movement, and fun—all organized into one ready-to-use schedule.

👉 Explore Hawaiian Luau: https://tinyurl.com/328u3b66

08/21/2026

🍂🎨 Try this: Autumn Reflection Painting

Create a colorful fall landscape—and then use a little water and paint to make its reflection appear!

You’ll need:
🍁 White paper
🖍️ Brown crayons
🎨 Red, orange, yellow, blue & green watercolor paints
🖌️ Paintbrushes
💧 Water
🧻 Paper towels

How to make it:
1️⃣ Fold the paper in half lengthwise, then position it so the fold runs horizontally across the middle.
2️⃣ On the TOP half only, use brown crayon to draw tree trunks growing up from the fold.
3️⃣ Add plenty of red, orange, and yellow watercolor around the trunks to create vibrant fall leaves. Paint a blue sky and green grass, too—but keep all of your color above the fold!
4️⃣ Using a clean brush, generously coat the entire BOTTOM half of the paper with clean water.
5️⃣ Fold the painted half down onto the wet half. Gently press—don't rub!—across the paper.
6️⃣ Open it back up for the big reveal! ✨ The watercolor transfers to the wet paper, creating a beautiful reflection of the autumn landscape.

Blot any extra water from the crease with a paper towel and let your masterpiece dry.

🍁 This is one of the hands-on activities featured in our Autumn Artists After School Lesson Plan, where art, science, and the changing seasons come together for a week of creative learning.

👉 Find the complete plan: https://tinyurl.com/47a5m3a8

08/19/2026

👀 Something new is coming for the school year...

Fresh Best Day Ever! After School and Kids' Day Out lesson plans are headed to our website!

📚 New themes
✨ New activities
🎉 New ways to make out-of-school time the best part of their day

And for those who like to plan ahead (and save!), we'll also be releasing new lesson plan bundles for both After School and Kids' Day Out.

📅 Mark your calendar: September 3

We can't wait to show you what's coming! 💙

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