Summer Fun on a Budget by: Taylor Abrahamsen
Summer is around the corner and with-it hours more each day of time for children to play! This can be the most exciting time of the year, yet potentially the most stressful in ensuring constant fun for children to enjoy, places to go, and screens to avoid. Even more so this year and we worry about how much contact we should allow our children to have with others. Some planning ahead and research can help relieve that stress and create a great summer ahead for your family to enjoy! Enjoy some time inside and out of the house together with a few households supplies you can turn your home into a summer camp style paradise that your children will eagerly await each day. Consider even creating the ultimate summer fun list that the kids can decorate and enjoy selecting and completing fun activities each day without the need to struggle with them to get out and play! Check out this chart to see some great family fun ideas: Outdoor Fun •Have a picnic •Camp out and make S'mores •Build a sandcastle in a play pool in your yard (use same pool for a waterslide at the bottom of your slide) •Project a movie onto a white wall or sheet in the yard •Make a sidewalk chalk mural •Set up a bike and toy cars wash •Learn how to identify constellations
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Crafts Together •Make sponge water bombs •Make homemade moon sand or playdough •Make a rain gutter river and boat contest •Paint with squirt guns on canvas •Paint with bubbles on paper •Cardboard box fort •Paint with ice (ice tray/tempera paint) •Make an ultimate road trip map around the US
Cooking Activities •Host a cookout •Water gun war through the backyard •Homemade popsicles •Make summer treats using jello and other yummies around the house •Have a lemonade stand
