Summer moons printable pack: Seasonal learning for June, July and August

Explore the Strawberry Moon, Buck Moon and Sturgeon Moon

The Summer Moons Pack is designed to carry your family slowly through summer, from the long light of the June solstice to the ripening hedgerows and harvest hints of August. Inside, you’ll find simple ways to notice the season, follow the moon, explore world traditions, and make space for creativity at home.

Across the pack, children can learn about traditional full moon names, track moon phases, keep a nature journal, read moon legends and fables, explore festivals from around the world, respond to poetry and art, make summer crafts, try seasonal recipes, and enjoy practical outdoor activities. Each month has its own rhythm.

• June follows the Strawberry Moon, long evenings, ripening fruit, butterflies, and the summer solstice.
• July explores the Buck Moon, high summer, swifts, wildflowers, strength, growth, and long outdoor days.
• August follows the Sturgeon Moon, harvest fields, blackberries, heather, late summer stillness, and the first small signs of the year turning.

The pack brings together nature, folklore, science, geography, history, art, poetry, food, and creative writing in a way that feels natural rather than forced. Families can use it as a seasonal curriculum companion, a moon study resource, a gentle nature-based project, or simply as something to dip into through the summer months.

There is no set order and no need to complete every page. Choose what fits your time, energy, weather, and family rhythm. Use a few pages each week, follow the full moons, save activities for slow afternoons, or revisit the pack each summer as part of your seasonal traditions. You only need to print the pages you want to use.

What’s inside

For use across the whole season:

• Moon names wheel - make spinners to display and track the full moons through the year.
• Moon phase observation sheet - record what you notice in the sky throughout the month.
• Full moon names flashcards - use for games, storytelling, displays, matching activities, or seasonal discussion.
• Moon music - a moon-inspired playlist to bring atmosphere to family moon study.
• Summer foods - simple seasonal recipe ideas, including outdoor and family-friendly food activities.
• Crafts, puzzles and activities - summer-themed creative pages, from sun-inspired crafts to moonlit activities.

For each month:

• Full moon names - explore the traditional name for each summer full moon, along with cultural alternatives from around the world.
• Festivals from around the world - learn about seasonal and cultural festivals, each with a simple hands-on activity and an optional extension.
• Full moon tales & legends - read short moon stories, myths, fables, and folklore from different cultures.
• Creative writing prompts - Open-ended story starters and imaginative prompts inspired by summer, moonlight, folklore, and the natural world.
• Art study pages - look closely at moonlit artworks and respond through gentle discussion and creative prompts.
• Poetry study pages - read seasonal poems, explore language and imagery, and respond through writing or art.
• Reflective nature journal pages - step outside and notice what is changing through June, July and August.

Cross curricular links:

• History & geography - discover festivals and traditions from different places and time periods, including Kupala Night, Dragon Boat Festival, Bastille Day, Notting Hill Carnival, Hungry Ghost Festival, and Ferragosto.
• Science - explore the summer solstice, seasonal change and nature observation.
• Art - respond to moonlit paintings, create seasonal crafts, explore colour, texture, light, shadow, collage, and simple handmade decorations.
• Food and practical skills - prepare simple summer recipes, picnic foods, campfire bread twists, fruit plates, and seasonal treats.
• Literacy - read myths, legends, fables and poems. Write stories, reflections, acrostics, nature notes, and imaginative responses.
• Culture & belief - explore how people around the world have marked the moon, the sun, harvest, summer gatherings, ancestors, stories, and seasonal change.

The stories, crafts and activities are written with mixed ages in mind. Younger children may enjoy the drawing pages, simple crafts, food activities, stories and nature hunts. Older children and teens can go deeper with the folklore, cultural notes, poetry, art studies, discussion questions and writing prompts. Many pages can be adapted. A young child might draw what they notice in the evening sky. An older child might research the moon’s movement, compare festivals, write a longer myth, or create a detailed nature journal entry. The Summer Moons Pack is made to grow with your family.

It invites children to notice long light, warm evenings, moonrise, ripening fruit, buzzing meadows, harvest signs, and the quiet changes that begin to appear before autumn. Move slowly. Choose what fits. Let the summer moon lead the way.

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For best printing results, open the PDF using 'Adobe Acrobat' - the reader app is free to download for all platforms. Select paper size 'A4' and a 'fit to page or printable area' option to avoid cropping when printing. To save ink, only print the pages you need.

📎Format: 98 page PDF download.

🖨️ Printing, usage & group licence

All content in this pack is © Sasha Jackson / Dartmoor Kin.



This is a personal and limited group-use resource. You are welcome to print it for your own family, class, group, or session, but the digital file must not be shared, uploaded, copied, resold, or redistributed. Full usage guidance is included inside the pack.