Part of the fun of summer is the pure celebration of the season! Make some memories with these best summer activities with kids!
Summer Traditions For The Whole Family
Consider adding a few new traditions-making the summer family friendly!
Perhaps a bike ride and ice cream sundae party every Friday evening or movie night and popcorn at home on Mondays. Summer is a great time for making memories together as a family.
The 20 Best Summer Activities with Kids
Here are a few of my favorite summer activities for kids for inspiration:
•Build tree forts together and watch out! This is always a very popular summer project, and the kids love to have input along the way. Let them “plan the fort”, then help them figure out lumber needs and work together with you for the construction of the tree fort that they will never forget.
•Take bike rides together, and don’t forget helmets or whatever else you all may need. Perhaps go down new streets or visit a new park.
•Sunday sundaes are something that they can look forward to, when they get to create their own ice cream masterpieces.
•Spend a day blowing bubbles or flying kites together. Remember to take pictures of the fun!
•One afternoon, go cloud-watching together. Watch the clouds for wild animal shapes while lying flat on your back in the grass. Take sketch books or notebooks along and let them draw the shapes that they see.
•Spend a day creating a make-believe town with chalk on the driveway or sidewalk together, letting imagination run free. Don’t forget to take pictures before the rain washes it away.
•Have s’mores nights throughout the summer. Enough said. S’mores can fix anything. 😉
•Laugh through watermelon seed-spitting contests in the back yard.
•See who can carefully capture the most fireflies in a plastic container (to be released that same evening).
•Spend as many nights as possible, getting out of the house to go star watching. Using a picnic table or blankets and pillows, build a comfy family spot to watch the stars come out at night. Be sure to take along a children’s book on constellations and stars, along with a flashlight and get them searching for constellations in the sky. By the end of the summer, they will be able to point them out on their own. Perhaps the end of the summer could be spent learning to use a telescope or binoculars, letting them see the rings of Saturn, and so much more.
•Make homemade ice cream with a hand-crank ice cream maker.
•Run through a sprinkler in the yard on hot afternoons, creating an obstacle course to run through while getting soaked by the sprinkler.
•Let every person decide a dinner menu for his/her Chef Night. They get to pick the dinner menu, make a grocery store list of the things they will need for their creation, and then go (with the family) to purchase the items they will need from their lists. Then, each person makes dinner one night a week for the whole family. This can be hilarious, and so what if they want to have ice cream sundaes for dinner? Just have fun with it.
•Our sister site hosts an Online Summer Art Camp! art gives children the chance to be creative, carefree, and engaged. Your child will gain self-confidence as they develop the skills and techniques to bring their creations to fruition. No artistic talent needed. Just an openness to creative expression!
•Summer Nature Studies at Homeschool Nature Study! Fireflies are fascinating! In this study, learn if there is a pattern to the light flashing. Enjoy an up close fireflies and moths summer nature study.
•Create a scavenger hunt for your back yard, writing down tips and hints and picking fun prizes for the winners. Pinterest has loads of scavenger hunt lists to help you out.
•Family jigsaw puzzles can be a great distraction when you want to leave the television turned off and the conversations to increase. Set up a card/folding table if you don’t have a place to leave the puzzle up for a few days, until it is completed. Use puzzle glue so the puzzles can be preserved and hung in the hall, basement, or wherever they can see them and remember the time together.
•Thursday Night Bingo Night can be fun, too. Collect some interesting small prizes and put them in lunch-size brown paper bags, stapling them shut as you collect them. When someone yells “Bingo”, they get to choose one of the paper bags to open and see what they have one. From flip flops to inflatable beach balls, funny t-shirts to wind-up model airplanes, the prizes can be so funny!
•Of course unit studies are perfect for summer and such a fun way to learn and to make memories together!
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This summer will be memorable, and it is my prayer that you and yours make time for fun, set aside time to help others that are struggling, and pray together to share everyone’s concerns and praises.
Blessings,
