Educational Summer Activities

Continued learning over the summer helps your student to be academically on track for the start of the new school year! While Pittsburgh Public Schools offers a variety of summer camps and programs for our students, there are plenty of educational activities that you can participate in with your student over the summer!

• Read a book at the Carnegie Library branch closest to you!
• Play outside in one of Pittsburgh's many parks!
• Visit a museum!
• Prepare a healthy snack!
• Turn your kitchen into a science lab!
• Make your own musical instruments!
• Write and illustrate your own book!
• Go fly a kite!
• Turn junk into something new!
• Virtually visit National Parks, Monuments and Historic Sites!
• Start a rock collection!
• Take a virtual college tour!
• Pick a beautiful bouquet of flowers!
• Go on a treasure hunt!
• Volunteer with a local organization!
• Check out these fun resource websites!
• Fight the summer brain drain!

For more activities and programs within Pittsburgh, visit  http://www.afterschoolpgh.org/programs/