Summer Activities For Kids with Felice Gerwitz
Podcast #206
Summer is here and these summer activities are for kids no matter what the time of the year – with these ideas and suggestions you can enjoy hours of fun, create memories and best of all learn. (What else would a homeschool mom say?) Enjoy!
Show Notes: Summer Activites For Kids
Baking
- Teach children basic cooking skills
- Eat food from different countries
- Make homemade ice-cream or yogurt
- Make homemade smoothies
- Homemade pizza – start with bagels or English Muffins
- Popsicles with fruit juice and paper cups
- Smore’s
Nature
- Start collections, shells from the beach, rocks, bugs, etc.
- Drawing – use paper and crayons to make crayon relief drawing
- Take pictures and make a digital photo album – label photos
- Canoeing, Kyakking
- Swimming or
Learn to swim
Arts and Crafts
- Outdoor crafts that are messy!
- Sculpture with soap, or sand
- Use recyclable items
- Create a mural – hang a large sheet of paper and do a group art project
Backyard Parties or Festivals
- Campfire Party
- Set up a circus
- Fourth of July Party
- Mexican Fiesta
- Seafood Festival
- Renaissance Festival
- Hawaiian Luau
- Make up your own festival – ice-cream festival with candy toppings and games
- Scavenger Hunts (I love these for birthday parties)
Sports
- Learn how to play a new sport
- Set up mini-golf in your yard or a friend’s yard
- Play badminton or yard tennis
- Tennis
- Bowling
- Roller skating, skate boarding
- Handball,
Fun Activities
- Water sports – slip and slide
- Water balloons
- Lemonade stand
- Game night – once a week
- De-junk room – yard sale – or give to charity
- Study the night sky! Learn the summer constellations and identify specific stars (you may need to go to a local park with less light)
- Camp in the backyard
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