{Our very own Summer Fun list}

 

Last year I wrote out our own Summer Bucket list on our big chalkboard in our living room. 

Well, this year that chalkboard is in a different place and I just don't know if I'm going to use it or not. 

So until I find a cute place and have a clever idea for displaying our list it is just going to be right here on this little old blog. 

2012 Summer Bucket List

Family Chapter Book Reading

Build a fort (inside and outside)

Ride bikes

Sonic Happy Hour

Homemade pizza on the barbeque

Water fight

Go on a donut run

Run in the sprinklers

Take Daddy lunch

Play mini golf

Play badminton in the backyard

Go on a boat ride

Go to our neighborhood Farmer's Market

Camp in the backyard

Make smores

Family walks to the park

Slumber party

Watch fireworks

Go swimming

Go to the splashpad

Make homemade pie

Do a big bubble party

Go to the library

Get ice cream from the ice cream truck

Go to the lake

Go see a movie

Go to a baseball game

Have a picnic at the park with friends

Go to the carousel

Make homemade ice cream

Go to the amusement park

Visit Grandpa and Grandma 

One of the most fun parts of this is the actual brainstorming with the kids. The way their faces would light up as something would get suggested. Anticipation is a wonderful thing! 

This is what we did last year. Cute? Yes. Original? No.

My friend Leslie who is so good at combining teaching with fun stuff is doing a brilliant get chores done/pull a fun activity out of the envelope sort of thing. She is one of the best Mom's I know at being intentional with her kids.

My kids, well mostly my eight year old, has been bugging me to do a chore chart because he is dreaming of an allowance. So Leslie's method of tying the summer fun stuff into rewards for chores would probably work great. I just need to come up with more of a daily fun list rather than a list that has so many big fun activities. My son had said while we were brainstorming that we could do one of these everyday! Some of them, sure we could do everyday but others? Go to an amusement park? Make homemade pie? Not so much. So next up is more of a daily small activity list of fun stuff for the kids. Things like art projects or games, walks to the park. 

*To do today: 

Go to the Farmer's Market! Definitely

Go to the pool. Maybe