Silly Summer Mad Libs for Kids - Free Printables

Get those giggles out with this easy, no-prep mad libs activity. With 2 silly printable summer mad libs stories, your whole family will love playing silly summer fun mad libs!

Why you want this activity

fun way to practice grammar during summer break
Older kids love it; younger children love it — basically, it’s for kids of all ages
No prep for you; just print and go!
Perfect for camping or car trips!

How do you play Summer Fun Mad Libs?

Mad Libs is a fun fill-in-the-blank word game, perfect for lesson plans, homework assignments, sub plans, or just as no-prep activity for tired parents. This activity works wonderfully in a collection of activities for students of all ages, including summer camp, summer school activity, and end-of-year events. You can play your mad lib style story with kids as young as preschool and with high school aged students.

How to Play:

Roles:
- Reader (1 person): The reader keeps the printed story and asks the players to fill in the blank spaces without revealing the story.
- Players (1+ people): They will suggest words to fill in the blanks. The player should NEVER see the full story!

Filling in the Blanks: Each Mad Lib story is missing parts of speech words. Under each blank space, there will be a prompt for a part of speech. The reader asks for words that fit these prompts (e.g., “I need a noun.”).
Generating Words: Players suggest words (like “ice cream” or “surfboard”), and the reader selects one and writes it in the blank space.
Completing the Story: Continue filling in the blanks until the story is complete.
Reading Aloud: The final step is for the reader to read the completed story out loud. This should result in hilarious summer-themed stories, tons of side-splitting laughter, and can be a perfect treat for students or just for your family.

Download Silly Summer Fun Mad Libs Printable Stories

Click the images below to get a full-sized, printable PDF file of each story.

Tips for playing with younger kids (PreK-1st)

You can absolutely play this game with pretty little kids! In fact, it’s a great way to incorporate grammar practice painlessly. However, you do need to make a few adjustments to keep everyone interested and happy.

My experience with groups of preschool – 1st grade kiddos and Mad Libs is that you need to do the stories in short time chunks. They struggle to wait for the entire story to be filled in before they get the payoff.

For these Valentine Mad Libs, I’d suggest maybe a paragraph at a time.

Another tip: You also can’t just ask for nouns and adjectives. Instead, you’ll have to say things like “I need a thing. Can everyone look around the room? Does anyone see a thing?” or “I need a describing word. Maybe something like ‘big’ or ‘stinky’.”

Done like that, this is a fun game for all school ages.

Also, kids this age love the word “stinky.” No idea why; it’s just facts.

Where to use Silly Summer Mad Libs

Mad Libs can be integrated into various subjects like social studies, physical science, physical education, and visual arts. They’re great for creative writing exercises.

Use Mad Libs to enhance language skills in fun, engaging ways, suitable for any classroom, summer camp, or home activity. From 2nd grade ELA to high school and onward, Mad Libs are a versatile and entertaining way to practice parts of speech and creative writing.

And they’re still fantastic even if you’re not a teacher or associated with the schools at all. Mad Libs are currently my kids’ favorite camping activity. Before we go camping, I print off a couple pages, and we fill them in around the campfire.

We also love them for car trips. Just print this summer mad libs freebie, and when the fighting or the “Mom, I’m bored,” starts, you can whip these out and bring back the fun.

They’re also great for any of those days. You know what I’m talking about. When you’re in the middle of the summer vacation and suddenly your kids are bored to tears, there’s no friends available to play with, and it’s too hot to play outside for long. You can pull these silly stories out and play the game, or even let them do their own independent work on these stories.

Reviewing the Parts of Speech

You may not know this, but my day job is middle school English teacher, although I am off duty in the summer months. Believe it or not, I get very excited about grammar. However, I know that many folks haven’t looked at grammar with anything but a side eye for most of their life. If you need a quick review on all the different parts of speech, then here you go:

Noun: a person, place, thing, or idea. Examples: my sister, the beach, a frisbee, or happiness. Feel free to change a player’s word choice to singular or plural to fit the sentence (i.e. seagull to seagulls).
Verb: an action word. Examples: swim, jump, dive, etc. Again, feel free to change the tense or form of the word to fit the story (i.e. change “swim” to “swam” or “was swimming”)
Adjective: a word that describes a noun. Examples: large, blue, sandy, hot
Adverb: a word that describes a verb. These often end in -ly. Examples: quickly, happily, energetically
Interjection: an exclamation word. Examples: Wow! Oh no! Yay!

We’re not going to mess around with conjunctions, pronouns, or prepositions today. Your silly story doesn’t need them!

If you loved these mad libs, our friends over at Woo Jr have a ton more!