Being inspired by a few fun activities I found on pinterest, I decided to make a list with my kids of fun things we want to do this summer. I decided to make a list of 70 things we are going to do. We are going to print off the list and do one thing every day. I am going to make sure I have everything ahead of time so I can be ready to go with each activity. Most of the activities are free but a few of them require making a stop at the dollar store. I always want to do fun things with my kids and then the summer comes and goes and I always end up working too much or not doing any of the fun things I planned on doing. I am starting early this year so I can be prepared. Some of them are as easy as making cookies or just eating lunch that day as an indoor picnic and some of them require more of my time like visiting our local pool which they have been asking to do for months now which will require me to adjust my work schedule a little but I need to make sure to enjoy my time with my kids while I can. I will have them draw each week 7 at the beginning of the week and I can fit what they drew depending on my work load for that day. I am glad to have compiled a list based on what I found on pinterest and my kids fun ideas as well.
1. Bug catching day. (Kylie will only catch black ants).
2. Write the ABCs with long red licorice.
3. Cloud watching. Find pictures in the clouds and for older kids what kind of clouds they are.
4. Fossil digging. Get dinosaurs bones from dollar store and bury them and let the kids dig them out.
5. Sponge painter. Get sponges from dollar store and paint with them.
6. Make mini rainbow volcanos. (baking soda, water color and vinegar)
7. Make their own book with illustrations.
8. Balloon tennis. (Paddle is paper plate taped to popsicle stick and hit balloon back and forth).
9. Ding dong ditch neighbors. Get some Ding Dongs (yum) and put a note on them that says "You've been ding dong ditched" and leave them on their front porch and run.
10. Teach the moon phases with oreos and then eat them.
11. Make hand shadows (at night).
12. Do a puppet show.
13. Play pretend. (my kids wanted to do a pretend store with pretend money).
14. Make an annual silly holiday (like on the site I found every August 20 was annual doughnut day so that day would be annual whatever you came up with day.
15. What floats or doesn't float. Get a big tub or pool of water and see what floats or doesn't float.
16. Let the kids plan the menu that day and help cook and let them serve you. (pay for the meal afterward with pretend money).
17. Make necklaces with fruit loops or other cereal that has holes.
18. Name painting. Tape out your names in tape and then paint over it. When the paint dries, your name will shine through.
19. Lava floor. The floor is lava and you can't touch the floor. Have to try to not touch the floor and stand on things. (might be easy with a dirty house) My kids apparently do this all the time.
20. Simple water painting.
21. Rock painting. Turn them into bugs or friends or people or whatever you want.
22. Balloon faces. Use a marker and make faces on balloons. We decided to put a glow stick in them so they shine at night time. (hope they don't pop).
23. Carve a watermelon. We heard this idea around Halloween and couldn't wait until summer to try and carve a watermelon. Hope it works.
24. Have an indoor picnic.
25. Opposite day. My 7 year old came up with this one. The kids have to do the adult stuff like make dinner and the adults do the kids stuff. (we will see how this one goes over).
26. Play school. Let the kids be the teacher.
27. Make a band.
28. Write letters to family members. Use lots of stickers. Draw pictures on them. (grandmas will love this one).
29. Just Dance day. We love the video game just dance. We do it all the time but decided to make a day out of it.
30. Crepe paper obstacle course. Put crepe paper down the hall and the kids have to go down the hall without touching it. Kind of like laser beams guarding a safe.
31. Act out a story (use home made costumes if you can think of them).
32. Make dino fossils out of play dough. Press toy dinos into play dough and let them dry.
33. Fly a kite. Buy some from the dollar store and fly them. Cheap.
34. Have a tea party with mini food. The boys thought it would be fun but had to remind me we didn't drink tea. I had to tell them it was called a tea party even if you didn't drink tea :) Good for them!!!
35. Play dress up and see what the kids come up with.
36. Treasure hunt. Set up a treasure hunt for the kids. Connor asked if the treasure at the end could be real money. Man that kid loves money.
37. Pick wild flowers on a walk.
38. Make a popsicle stick puzzle. These are real fun.
39. Make Giant bubbles with solo cups. Just cut a hole in the bottom and stick the other end in the bubbles and blow out of the holes.
40. Go swimming at our local pool.
41. Trace and color leaves.
42. Have a kid and mom idol. We had a kid idol when we lived in plain city (like american idol for kids). Our kids loved it and always want to do it again. We will each sing a song and judge each other. Would never do it in front of a big crowd but great in front of family.
43. Ice cube paint. Freeze ice cubes with food coloring and tooth picks and then paint with them on paper.
44. Make home made lava lamps. This is found on pinterest. It consists of oil, water, food coloring and alka seltzer.
45. Go on a hike.
46. Sleep over day. We have a sleepover in mom's room. (Chelton will love this one)
47. Mini marshmallow contraction. Use mini-marshmallows and tootchpicks and start building.
48. Pain and roll marbles. Dip marbles in paint and roll.
49. Make cookies. Let them do a lot of the work.
50. Write in chalk on the driveway. Get creative.
51. Have a picnic outside.
52. Have marble races with a pool noodle. Cut it in half and use it to race the marbles down the middle.
53. Balloon toss with hula hoops. Anchor balloons around the yard and write numbers on the balloons that are different points (helium in balloons). Toss hula hoops around balloons and whatever balloon you get it over that is how many points you get. (nice that I have a helium tank for these balloon games).
54. Ninja balloons. Make ninja faces on balloons. Anchor them around the yard and get your water guns out. Let the kids go crazy trying to squirt at them knocking them over.
55. Make a hovercraft CD. This consists of a CD with a bug juice lid or a dish soap lid glued to the top. You then blow up a balloon and set it on the top and it will hover across your tile or hardwood. My kids saw this and have been begging to make one.
56. Make a water pinata. Hang water balloons from a string and them pop them over your head. Instant hit and cool from 100 degree weather.
57. Have a paper airplane competition. Hopefully when Chelton is home because I think boys are born to know how to make airplanes and girls just aren't.
58. Have a show & tell. Kids just love to do this.
59. Go to the park. Better go early before the slides get too hot.
60. Have a movie scavenger hunt. Make a list of things they have to find or do and film themselves doing the things (like someone doing a handstand or a sock with a hole in it and they have to film everything...then you watch it when the movies are over. They get funny and the kids get a kick out of watching it. Iphones work great.
61. Play board games.
62. Make your own movies. Split in teams and have a theme or just let them make any movie they want. When it is over watch the movies and eat popcorn. Fun to see how creative they get.
63. Rent a movie from Netflix (a big treat at our house) and eat popcorn (another big treat).
64. Have an indoor snowball fight with socks.
65. Make a racecar track around the house with masking tape and play with the 1000 cars my boys have. They will probably never want to take this down and will probably play with those cars they never play with.
66. Play monster in the middle. Line up the pillows and they are safe and the carpet is lava. Jump from pillow to pillow and if the monster touches you then you are in the middle.
67. Play red light/green light, mother may I and other fun outside games.
68. Play indoor bowling. Stuff socks inside toilet paper rolls and line them up. Use a ball and then knock them over.
69. Set up indoor mini golf course (luckily we have little golf clubs so we don't need anything for this).
70. Give them $5 and let them spend it at the dollar store. Heaven for a little kid.
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What a fun idea! Might have to do something similar myself. :)
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