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Summer Activities For Kids

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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

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        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)

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          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,

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            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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