Summer Activities

                                                                  Summer Activities

 Summer is the most beautiful time of the year and it is also the time we would be able to have fun time with our kids. Early sunrise and chirping sound coming from birds will keep us active in the mornings. 

Summers are the best time of the year with less busy schedules in the morning. Below are the activities we can do with kids and for ourselves to recharge ourselves

1. Family game night:  Have a weekly game night, and on rotation basis make your family to choose the game. 

2. Family movie night: Show a movie on the Main television in your home. This would be easy for the family to snuggle and watch movie at one place.

Serve popcorn and if feasible order pizza for a quick dinner.

3. Family dance party: Host a family dance party to all sorts of different music and show the kids your favorite moves.

4. Do a puzzle: If you're bored with your puzzles, trade with a friend or family.

5.Lego challenges: Give everyone a bag of Lego pieces and charge your crew with building a house, a store, a park, their school or their favorite cartoon character. This would help to keep their fingers strong as well.

6. Grow herbs and flowers:  Make a plant bed and put seeds and make kids watch them grow. See if you can take kids with you to local farmer's market or local flower farms. Also, take them to fruit picking to cultivate healthy eating habit.

7. Visit a zoo:  For the kids of younger age, take them to local zoo and watch how animals look like. Make them to touch and learn about animals.

8. Art Museum: Take kids to a local art museum and make them to explore art and culture from different countries.

9. Hiking: We don't need to stress younger kids with miles of hiking. We can take kids out to local parks with trails and make them get used to walking in trails. If incase of elder kids, find your nearest state or national park or national forest.  This would help them to spend more time outdoors in a clean environment and get fresh air.

10. Movie Marathon: Make them to collect all their classic or Favorite Disney movies and allow them to continuously watch movies. Pair this with Pizza night or order food from kid's favorite restaurant. For teenagers, allow them to watch their favorite 

11. Let's have a picnic: Picnic or grill in the backyard or in your local park. This will help kids to spend some time outdoors. Also, see if you can add some outdoor sports Ex: Play Soccer, Bubbles, Basketball etc.

12: Lemonade Stand: Help Kids to set up a lemonade stand and give the proceeds to a good cause.

13: Declutter:  We might be busy with our school and class schedule during academic year. It is a good to do deep cleaning and make sure we remove all the unwanted things from the house. 

14. Bike Riding: Summer is the time we get a chance to spend more time outdoors. That paired up with Bike Riding would allow us to spend more time outdoors.

15. Baking: Roll your sleeves, out your apron and get into the kitchen and have fun with kids baking their favorite cookies or banana bread. Kids would love to see what they have made with their hands. while cookies are baking, make some lemonade and turn that into Tea party.

16. Library: Summer reading would help kids to maintain the vocabulary. This would also help them to explore new books they would enjoy reading. Make frequent visits to local library.

17. Go Stargazing: Finish your dinner early and go out for a walk with kids. These summer walks would be cool and sky would be clear. Watch for stars and make kids to looks for clouds and ask them to connect to shapes. 

18. Sandcastles: If feasible, make a sandpit in your backyard. Kids would have fun building castles and decorating them. Have fun Sunday morning building castles with kids. Tip: It is easy to buy a foldable bath tub and fill the tub with sand. 

19. Sleep outdoors:  Hammock. Kids can get their favorite books and spend their summer afternoons swinging in Hammock and reading their favorite cartoons.

20. Mini Golf: Make a visit to local Golf. you can also invest in Golf Mat and reuse every summer.

21. Eat something new : Explore local restaurants and find out a place you would like to enjoy.

22. Watch Fireworks : Independence Day fireworks generally come during summers. Find some time to go out and watch Fireworks. Also, make kids to see local parades and sing national anthem.

23. Have a pretend campout: Camping is fun way to spend more time outdoors. If we are busy with our schedules, it is fun to make kids do camping in their backyards. Join kids inside camping tent and play games.

24. Beach: Hot summers always would get better with sometime inside water and playing with sand.

Enjoy your summer's.