Summer RE Curriculum
We offer three easy-to-use summer curricula built around fun and experiential learning. They include: 
  • Feeding Our Spirit - Celebrating our UU values and fun in the kitchen!     *brand new!
  • Can Do Summer - Celebrating the "can-do spirit"! 
  • Magic Summer - Celebrating the magic of service, silence and sunshine!

Shared Details
  • Each curriculum provides you with eight sessions.
  • Sessions are designed for one hour, but the projects can be extended or shortened as needed.
  • Sessions are designed for multi-age groups from preschool to 5th graders. While not designed for middle and high school youth, many youth will enjoy participating and helping as leaders since the session are project-based.
  • The sessions have clear instructions and use easy-to-find supplies.​

What's the Difference Between the Three?
Feeding Our Spirit: Exploring Our UU Values Through Fun in the Kitchen​
Unitarian Universalism calls us to live our values with creativity, experimentation, and joy. And what better way to explore those values than through cooking, conversation, and community?

Each session centers on one of our new UU values and is paired with an introduction, story options, thoughtful discussion prompts, and three hands-on recipes (from mug cakes and pasta salad to bagels and pudding pops!). Kids get to explore their faith while mixing, baking, and sharing food together. Perfect for Sunday mornings, midweek gatherings, or evening programs, this curriculum builds UU identity, fosters connection, and creates sweet memories. It’s a delicious way to keep your children engaged with and growing in their faith all summer long!
Can Do Summer: Curiosity, Imagination & the Can-Do Spirit
This program's aim is to foster the “can do spirit” and help children face challenges with confidence. To this end, we anchor the sessions in our UU practices of curiosity and imagination, two skills that are key to feeling empowered and excited to try and make new things. Each week features an adventure of building something new, including: blanket forts, fairy houses, junk sculpture, fancy paper airplanes, obstacle courses, and more! 
Click HERE to watch a brief overview of Can Do Summer, from curriculum designer, Katie Covey.
Magic Summer:  The Magic of Service, Silence and Sunshine
Each of the eight sessions is built around the "three magic S's" 
  • Service to Others: Helping others is a magic antidote to isolation, worry and sadness. Service to others pulls us out of self-concern and connects us to wider world. It invites us to experience and reaffirm our sense of agency and empowerment.
  • Silence and Mindfulness: In a busy and buzzing world, stillness helps us find and listen to our own voice. In a world that distracts and seeks to control our attention, silence enables us to make our own choices and notice the quieter gifts waiting for us to find them. 
  • ​Sunshine and Movement: Summertime is a magical time of less formal learning, and of more connection to nature and the outside. So in these sessions, we include outside games, which reinforce our interdependent and restorative relationship to nature, and allow children to revel in the joy of being together again. We also offer indoor variations.  All of the games also introduce the secret fourth  magical “S” of Silliness, that special magical humor which helps us stay lighthearted and carefree, able to make it through when life gets hard.
It's our belief that each of these “S’s” act as magic doorways, enabling our children to connect to their deepest selves, their community and to the joy of life around them. 
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​Samples
Click HERE for samples of each curriculum. just scroll down to the RE Samples section.

Questions
If you need help figuring out which subscription is right for you, email our Director of Religious Education Resources, April Rosario, at  [email protected]

Cost
  • Feeding Our Spirit - $60
  • Can Do Summer - $50 ​
  • ​Magic Summer - $50
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  For more information contact Susan: [email protected].                           Soul Matters Sharing Circle LLC