A happy, low-screen school holiday that keeps young minds busy
Everything you need to plan and run a 4 to 10 week holiday for children aged 4 to 12: weekly themes, projects, outings, reading, a little practice, life skills and childcare cover, in any country and any season.
- A practical e-book with a simple method: rest, play, a real project and a little practice
- A 14-sheet Holiday Learning Planner workbook with a 60-project bank, childcare cover calendar, reading totals, budget and dashboard
- Four fillable forms, five Word documents (including 37 messages and 4 ready-to-send letters) and 29 AI prompts for adults
- A 21-page colour Holiday Journal and Challenge Charts pack, a 6-week calendar plan and a project board import
The Summer Holiday Learning Planner · Bodhih Pro Kits · 135 by Bodhih Training, trainers to 2,000+ companies since 2008.
How do I plan a summer holiday that keeps my child learning without the stress?
Ask your children what they want, solve childcare first, then give each week one theme, one finished project, one outing and one rest day. Keep 15 to 20 minutes of reading or maths games most mornings. The Summer Holiday Learning Planner from Bodhih Training gives you the method, workbook, forms and printables to do it.
Want the full free guide first? Read How to Plan a Summer Holiday That Keeps Kids Learning (Ages 4 to 12).
You already feel the problem. Here is what it is costing you.
The 'what shall we do today?' argument
Every morning starts with a negotiation and ends in pyjamas at lunchtime. Without a weekly spine, every day is a blank page and everyone has a different idea.
Worry about the summer slide
You have read that children lose learning over the break, but workbooks end up under the sofa. You want something that keeps minds working without turning home into school.
Thirty working days to cover
If you work, the holiday is a jigsaw of leave, camps, grandparents and favours. One missed day can unravel a week.
Screens fill every gap
Nobody decides it, but by 4 pm on a wet Wednesday everyone has been on a screen since lunch, and switching it off means a scene.
Picture the next few weeks with the kit open beside you.
Imagine the Sunday before the holiday. The wish lists are on the fridge, in your children's own words. The Childcare Cover sheet shows no red gaps. As you open the Week Themes sheet, the first week already has a theme, a big question, a project and a free outing.
Picture Monday morning. Breakfast, then twenty minutes of reading or a card game with numbers, then the big block: a minibeast hotel for the five-year-old, a bug survey for the nine-year-old. Lunch, a quiet hour, free play. Nobody asked what to do today, because the rhythm already answered.
Now think of a wet Wednesday in week three. Instead of the screen, you pull the decision card off the fridge, reach for a rainy-day box you packed last week, and the afternoon becomes a blanket fort with a sign and rules. When the screen timer rings at six, you point at the agreement everyone signed.
And imagine the last fortnight: a journal full of drawings and tickets, a handful of finished projects, reading minutes added up by child and week, a certificate on the wall, and bedtimes moved back in gentle steps. Whether you start with the wish lists tonight or the workbook tomorrow, the first hour is mapped out for you.
19 files that do the work for you
The e-book shows you how. The tools make it happen. Here is exactly what you download.
The Summer Holiday Learning Planner (e-book, PDF)
The guide: methods, worked examples, scripts and exercises
Start here: holiday learning map
The whole job on one page: six steps with the file to open for each, your first hour, the before-during-after plan and the Sunday routine.
Holiday Learning Planner workbook
14 sheets: settings, children, week themes, daily rhythm, 60-project bank, outings, reading log and totals, life skills, childcare cover, budget, week review and dashboard.
Holiday wish list (for each child)
Two pages the child fills in (or tells you while you write): what they love, want to learn, want to make and want to do, plus a rest-and-worries check.
Weekly holiday plan
One page per week: theme, big question, project, outing, reading, a little practice, life skill, childcare cover and the rest day, plus a Sunday check.
Project planner
Wonder, plan, make, show, look back: a two-page planner for one home project, written with the child, from question to finished product.
Holiday review and back-to-school check
A family review of the holiday (what to keep for next time) and a back-to-school readiness check for the final fortnight, with a child page.
Theme packs: 10 weekly themes
Ten ready-to-run weekly themes with activities for ages 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12, maths, writing, outing, life skill, rainy-day version and a make-your-own frame.
Messages and letters for swaps, camps and carers
37 ready-to-adapt messages (other parents, camps, grandparents, sitters, employer, school, and words for hard moments with children) plus 4 ready-to-send documents.
Family holiday agreement
A one-page agreement the whole family writes together: rhythm, rest, screens, AI tools and online safety, helping at home, kindness, and a review date.
Worked example pack: the Mensah-Iyer holiday
The main forms filled in for one illustrative family (two working parents, children aged 9 and 5, a cousin on swap days, a six-week holiday) so you can see what good looks like.
AI prompt pack for holiday learning
29 tool-agnostic prompts grouped by step (planning, projects, reading and maths, outings, life skills, cover and messages, review), each with what to paste in and what to check, plus child-safety rules.
Daily rhythm options
Five day shapes (home, camp, outing, rainy, low-energy), what changes by age, and quiet-hour ideas.
Decision card: bored? try this
If-this-then-that for the 14 most common holiday moments, from 'I'm bored' to childcare falling through.
Free learning ideas anywhere
Free and low-cost learning at home, in libraries, parks, museums, markets, streets, transport and online.
Holiday mistakes to avoid
Twelve common mistakes with the fix for each, and the rule of three.
Holiday journal and challenge charts
21 colour pages to print: journal cover and weekly pages for two age bands, reading road, three bingo cards, nature hunt, outing explorer, 24 skill badges, helping chart, screen tokens, 30 boredom-jar slips, weather and mood tracker, project plan, highlights, certificate and back-to-school countdown.
6-week holiday plan calendar
35 events: a planning week, then weekly theme starts, midweek checks, show-and-tell, Sunday reviews and the back-to-school countdown. Dated for a 26 July 2027 start; drag to your dates.
Holiday project board import (CSV)
All 60 projects as cards for Trello, Asana, Notion, Planner or a spreadsheet: theme, age band, hours, cost, mess, materials and finished product.
Chapter by chapter
Each chapter opens with a real situation, gives you a method and ends with something to do today, using the tools in your kit.
- Format
- PDF e-book + XLSX + fillable PDF + DOCX + printable PDF + ICS + CSV
- Files
- 19 files plus a one-click ZIP
- E-book
- 60 pages
- Works with
- Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice, Numbers, Word, Google Docs, Acrobat Reader, GoodNotes, Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar, Trello, Notion
- Best for
- Parents, grandparents and carers of children aged 4 to 12, worldwide
A Long Holiday Without the Guilt
The whole method in one page: rest, play, a real project and a little practice, plus what is in the kit and the three things to do this week.
What Really Happens to Learning Over a Long Break
What the research on summer learning loss really says, why it varies so much, and what helps: little and often, retrieval and spacing.
Start With Your Children
The child's wish list, a 40-minute family planning meeting and a one-page Family Holiday Agreement everyone signs.
Weekly Themes, the Spine of the Holiday
Ten ready-made weekly themes, how to choose and order them, and the weekly rule of three.
A Daily Rhythm That Leaves Room to Rest
Four anchors that hold the day steady, five day shapes, what changes by age and the 15-minute Sunday plan.
Projects Children Actually Finish
The wonder, plan, make, show, look back cycle, how to size projects by age and how to use the 60-project bank.
Reading and Maths Woven Into Ordinary Days
Daily reading in any format, read-aloud at every age, and maths used for real things with short retrieval games.
Outings, Free Local Learning and Travel
The hook question, the spot list and the after-activity, free local learning, costing outings and travel learning.
Life Skills: Cooking, Money and Helping at Home
Teaching kitchen, money, home and out-and-about skills in four steps, with badges for 'on my own'.
Screens, AI Tools and Keeping Children Safe
A calm screen plan made in advance, turning screen interests into projects, and clear rules for AI tools and online safety.
Working Parents, Siblings and Rainy Days
Childcare cover first for working parents, swaps and camps, siblings of different ages and rainy-day boxes.
The Last Fortnight and the First Day Back
The holiday review, the back-to-school check two weeks out, and saving the plan for next time.
Curriculum Notes for Common School Systems
How holiday projects connect to the England National Curriculum, Common Core, CBSE and ICSE, IB, Cambridge and the Australian Curriculum.
Country Notes (Correct at October 2026)
Dated notes on holiday timing, home education rules, children's data and app age limits, and checking childcare providers.
Not just reading. Tools you will actually open again.
E-book
- The Summer Holiday Learning Planner e-book: introduction, 10 chapters, conclusion and two appendices (curriculum notes and dated country notes)
Spreadsheet
- Holiday Learning Planner workbook (14 sheets): Start here, Settings, Children, Week Themes, Daily Rhythm, Project Bank of 60 projects, Outings, Reading Log, Reading Totals, Life Skills, Childcare Cover, Budget, Week Review and Dashboard with chart
Fillable PDF forms
- Holiday wish list (for each child)
- Weekly holiday plan
- Project planner
- Holiday review and back-to-school check
Word documents
- Theme packs: 10 weekly themes with activities for three age bands
- Messages and letters for swaps, camps and carers: 37 messages and 4 ready-to-send documents
- Family holiday agreement
- Worked example pack: the Mensah-Iyer holiday
- AI prompt pack for holiday learning: 29 prompts with safety rules
Cheat sheets
- Start here: holiday learning map
- Daily rhythm options
- Decision card: bored? try this
- Free learning ideas anywhere
- Holiday mistakes to avoid
Printables
- Holiday journal and challenge charts: 21 colour pages including weekly journal pages for two age bands, reading road, three bingo cards, nature hunt, outing explorer, 24 skill badges, helping chart, screen tokens, 30 boredom-jar slips, weather and mood tracker, certificate and back-to-school countdown
Calendar and import
- 6-week holiday plan calendar (ICS, 35 events)
- Holiday project board import (CSV, 60 project cards)
When you have worked through it, you will be able to…
Every outcome is practised with a worked example and a tool, not just described.
- Plan a whole school holiday of 1 to 10 weeks around your children's own wishes
- Give each week a theme, a finished project, an outing and a rest day
- Run a daily rhythm that keeps reading and maths going in 15 to 20 minutes a day
- Cover every working day with leave, camps, family and swaps, using ready-made messages
- Agree screen time and AI tool rules calmly, in advance, with the whole family
- Teach life skills in four steps and track them per child
- Finish with a holiday review and a back-to-school check that starts two weeks out
Know your starting point. Prove your progress.
People who measure before and after improve faster and can show it. AssessAll, our sister assessment platform, has AI-graded assessments that pair with this kit. Take one now, work through the kit, then re-take it.
Plan Strength Assessment with an Eight-Week Re-Measure
Take the assessment →AssessAll assessmentLesson Design and Questioning Technique Assessment for Teachers and Trainers
Take the assessment →AssessAll assessmentDigital Parenting & Online Safety Judgment
Take the assessment →JobularyLearn by doing: the 70-20-10 model explained (Jobulary)
Make it a growth plan →A taste of Chapter 1
That fits what cognitive scientists have learned about memory. Two ideas matter here. Retrieval practice: bringing something back to mind strengthens it. A well-known 2006 study by Henry Roediger and Jeffrey Karpicke in Psychological Science found that students who were tested on a passage remembered it better a week later than students who simply reread it. Spacing: a little practice spread over many days beats the same practice crammed into one sitting. Put those together and you have a holiday recipe. Little and often. Pull things back from memory rather than rereading them. Keep reading going every day in whatever form your child enjoys. Use maths for real things. And spend your energy on curiosity, planning and finishing projects, which children carry back to school as confidence.
The honest comparison
| Free templates and typical advice | This kit | |
|---|---|---|
| Method | A blank planner or a list of activities | A clear method: four Rs a day, rule of three a week, anchors and rest days |
| Learning | A workbook a day | Daily reading in any format, real-world maths, projects with a finished product |
| Working parents | Assumes a parent at home | Childcare cover calendar, swap note, carer handover and 37 messages |
| Ages | One age or no guidance | Activities for 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12, with sibling advice |
| Screens and AI | Not covered or a scare story | A family screen plan, tokens and clear, dated AI safety rules |
| Countries | US-only dates and assumptions | Any country, any hemisphere, any currency, with dated country notes |
Made for you if…
- Parents of children aged 4 to 12 facing a long school holiday
- Working parents who need childcare cover and a plan that works around jobs
- Grandparents and carers who have the children for regular days
- Home-educating families who want a lighter holiday rhythm
- Families with siblings of different ages
- Families in any country, with summer holidays in July, May or December
Probably not for you if…
- Families looking for a full-year home-education curriculum (see The Homeschool Year System)
- Teenagers revising for exams (see Exam Mode)
- Anyone wanting a workbook a day
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Start with the quick-start chapter, then the main spreadsheet or planner. Most buyers use something from the kit the same day.
Make this holiday the one they remember
As you print the wish lists tonight and fill in the Settings sheet tomorrow, the first week begins to take shape. Whether you start with the childcare cover or the theme packs, you will have a plan you can run within the hour.
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The Summer Holiday Learning Planner: FAQs
Read the free guideAlready bought? Resend my linkWhat ages is the kit for?
Children aged 4 to 12. The theme packs give activities for three age bands (4 to 6, 7 to 9 and 10 to 12), the journal has weekly pages for younger and older children, and the e-book shows how to plan for siblings of different ages.
Does it work for a holiday that is not six weeks, or not in summer?
Yes. The workbook handles 1 to 10 weeks from a single start date, so it works for a long summer break in July, a summer vacation in May or a December and January holiday in the southern hemisphere. The calendar file is dated for a six-week holiday; you can drag events to your dates.
How do I stop the summer slide?
Research on summer learning loss shows wide variation between children, and maths practice tends to fade more than reading. A light daily rhythm helps: 15 to 20 minutes of reading or a maths game most mornings, daily reading in any format, and maths used for real things like cooking and shopping. The e-book explains the evidence carefully.
I work full time. Will this help?
Yes. Chapter 10 and the Childcare Cover sheet start with cover, before anything fun is planned. Every weekday appears automatically, gaps turn red, and the Messages document has words for camps, grandparents, other parents, sitters and your employer, plus a carer handover sheet and a swap note.
How much screen time should children have in the holidays?
That is a family decision. The World Health Organization recommends no more than one hour of sedentary screen time a day for children aged 2 to 4, with less being better. For older children, the kit helps you agree a plan in advance: an amount, a time window, exceptions and adult rules too.
Can children use AI tools with this kit?
The AI prompt pack is for adults. Children should use AI tools only with an adult and only where the tool's own age rules allow, since many require users to be 13 or over. Children should never share personal details with any app or AI tool.
Is this educational or professional advice?
It is educational and practical guidance, not medical, legal, psychological or childcare-regulation advice. Rules about home education, childcare, apps and children's data differ by country and change, so check your local education authority, provider terms and a qualified professional where it matters.
How can I measure my starting point as a planner and a parent?
If you want to check how strong your plans are before the holiday, AssessAll's Plan Strength Assessment with an Eight-Week Re-Measure gives you a baseline and a re-measure. For screens and online safety, try the Digital Parenting & Online Safety Judgment. Grandparents and carers who lead projects may like the Lesson Design and Questioning Technique Assessment for Teachers and Trainers.
Can I turn this into a development plan for myself?
Yes. Many of the skills here, planning, coaching and teaching by doing, grow through practice. Jobulary's guide to the 70-20-10 model explains learning by doing and can help you turn the holiday into a personal development plan.
Can I share the kit with my family or a holiday club?
The personal licence covers your own family, including grandparents and carers looking after your children. For schools, clubs or companies using it with other families, please ask about a team or company licence at solutions@bodhih.com.
How much does The Summer Holiday Learning Planner cost?
₹599 including 18% GST for buyers in India, or $17 for buyers outside India. One-time payment, no subscription, with an automatic invoice.
How do I get the files after paying?
Instantly. Your download page opens the moment payment succeeds, and a permanent download link is emailed to you. Download each file separately or everything in one ZIP.
What software do I need?
Any of the usual tools: Excel or Google Sheets for spreadsheets, Word or Google Docs for templates, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Preview, Xodo or GoodNotes for the fillable PDFs, and Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar for the calendar plan.
Can I get a refund?
Because it is a digital download, kits are not refundable once downloaded. We always refund a duplicate charge or a failed delivery, and if a file is corrupted and we cannot fix it within 3 working days. Full terms: bodhih.org/refunds.
Can my company buy this for a team?
Yes. Team and company licences, and workshops on this topic run by Bodhih Training, are available. Write to solutions@bodhih.com or call +91 99000 11601.
