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50 Fun Things To Do with Your Kids Before School Starts
By Chandice Probst,
14 hours ago
Has summer already flown by for you and your kiddos? I know it has for my family, and I wanted to make our summer extra special. So I was on a mission to make a list of things that would help me do just that.
After scouring social media and some of my favorite blogs for some ideas, I also decided that some field trips were in order since they were some of the things I loved most as a child. I found some friends in our town who wanted to join us, so I made a few calls and got everything scheduled. You would be surprised just how excited your local post office, grocery store, bakery, and florist are to host your kids and teach them about what it means to be in that profession.
With this list, you can make the last long days of summer even more memorable. While some of the suggestions take more time and planning, most can be done pretty quickly. You can even do a few of them in one day, like going on a picnic and feeding the ducks.
50 Fun Things To Do with Your Kids Before School Starts
6. Play water balloon baseball 7. Do a backwards dinner starting with dessert and ending with appetizers 8. Have a shaving cream fight 9. Hide some goodies, make a map, and go on a treasure hunt 10. Go camping 11. Visit a local museum 12. Make snow cones 13. Visit a national park or monument 14. Go on a hike 15. Go to a rodeo or demolition derby 16. Go to a garage sale 17. Make an outdoor library 18. Attend a library story time 19. Have a spa day
20. Make homemade ice cream 21. Pick fresh berries 22. Visit your local farmers’ market
23. Make special ice cubes (hopefully it encourages them to stay hydrated!) 24. Dance in the rain 25. Go on a grocery store tour
26. Have an ice cream tasting night 27. Go on a family bike ride 28. Make dirt cup desserts 29. Visit your local flower shop and learn what it means to be a florist
40. Have a tea party 41. Have a game night with your neighbors 42. Make sock puppets (Or other sock crafts !) 43. Do a puppet show 44. Visit your local bakery for a tour
45. Make flower crowns 46. Take that growing pile of cardboard Amazon boxes and build a fort 47. Make a table cloth playhouse (I love this one from Centsational Girl ) 48. Do face painting 49. Take your favorite book and make a themed party around it (We did the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie book series & made the treats to go along with the books) 50. Have a book dinner (Using books like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs or Dragons Love Tacos , etc.)
A version of this story was originally published in 2015.
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