Along with my "Boredom Jar", I decided to come up with a "Summer Family Activity Jar". This jar is going to be filled with slips of paper that have activities we can do as a family this summer.
Here are some ideas I have come up with so far:
- Bake a sweet treat
- Rent a movie or game
- Weed the garden
- Star Gazing Night
- Make homemade Popsicles
- Catch fireflies
- Make a healthy smoothie
- Walk to local ice cream shop for a cool treat
- Have a picnic
- Go for a walk
- Bike ride
- Design a family flag
- Write a menu for tomorrow's dinner
- Visit Farmer's Market
- Explore local park trails
- Try a local restaurant
- Visit the library
- Boce ball
- Plan a play date with friends
- Go for a treasure walk
- Pick up trash in neighborhood
- Movie and popcorn night
- Campfire night
- SMORES
- Sleep on three seasons porch
- Make fresh lemonade
- Visit a new park
- Go rock hunting - search for unusual rocks
- Splash pad
This is all I have right now. I will keep thinking and writing down activities for the summer. I would love to hear what your favorite family activities are!!
I am dreading the summer days when I am going to hear, "I'm bored!" So, this year, I have invented the "Boredom Jar". I have been thinking about this for the past couple of months. Whenever I come up with an idea, I write it down. My goal is to fill the "Boredom Jar" with so many ideas and things to do that it will make the cry, "I'm bored" a little less daunting for me.
Here are some of the things I have come up with so far:
- Make a tent
- Play hide and seek
- Make costumes or put on dress up clothes and put on a play
- Write a menu for what you want for dinner
- Make a fairy house outside
- Search for fossils in the rocks around our plants
- Write a story about a summer vacation
- Draw an ocean picture
- Make a Lego creation
- Find 10 different leaves
- Set up a tea party
- Make up a dance
- Read a book
- Sidewalk chalk
- Play a board game
- Come up with an art project (or ask me for one to do)
- Find things that start with the letter "t"
- Play restaurant (design menus, set the tables, name your restaurant, etc.)
- Play beauty shop
- Write a summer letter to Santa (he is not so busy right now)
- Find your way through a maze (I have a book of mazes)
- Do a worksheet (I have plenty of these on hand for the kids to do over summer)
- Make a rock sculpture
- Invent and design a new toy
- Invent your own game
- Ride your bike
- See if mommy needs help with anything (I am thinking about adding this a few times so it gets picked more than once)
- Find five different bugs
- Make a crazy hat
- Clean your room
- Try to catch a butterfly
- Go to the creek (near our house)
- Play a card game
- Play a computer game
- Write a story about your favorite toy
- Design an obstacle course
- Find something outside for each color of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, black, brown, gray, white)
- Shoot 50 baskets
- Water the plants
- Write a scary story
- Pick up sticks and put in fire pit
- Measure the following items: blade of grass, stick, leaf, flower petal, your thumb, rock, your foot, three items of your choice
- Look and see what the clouds are shaped as - what do you see?
I will still be coming up with ideas until the summer months and beyond. I think I have a good start, but you never can be too prepared! I hope this list helps you this summer!! I would love to hear what your ideas are and how this works for you!
