Ahh, the pressure is finally off and we finally get a chance to relax.
Piano lessons are finished, soccer championship games have been played (They placed Silver) and the monster assignment that had been looming over me for the past month is done and was submitted with only 7 minutes to spare. Yeah, I know. Pushing it a little close eh.
For the next two weeks our calendar is completely empty. No summer camps, no un-necessary
With 8 weeks left of summer fun we have lots of time to pick out some of our favourite activities to do at our leisure and honestly are just getting started.
This summer feels different than previous ones..it sort of feels like our family needed a couple of weeks to unwind and slow down from the busyness of the school year and everything that goes with it. All of your activities are spread out so we have a week here or there where we are on the go followed by a week of nothing and I couldn’t be happier.
This morning It’s a “drink my coffee out on the deck kinda of morning” and I couldn’t be happier!
The birds are singing in the trees, the sky is a beautiful blue and all feels right with the world.
Anyways, Back to you…
Did you try any of the activities from last week?
What was your family favourite?
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These are such classic ways to have fun and share memories together. The cloud game is always fun and ever changing!
I love all of these ideas, especially #3! 😉 I have tons of fun with my kids in the summertime. So lucky I can spend all day with them!
Awesome list! I remember being bored as a kid in towards the end of summer. its great to have some options!
I love this list and such a colorful fun reminder. I cannot believe it’s mid July already.
We’ve been playing tons of frisbee and I had forgotten just how much fun it is. My seven year old is pretty good at it too!
These are all great ideas and I’m considering doing a few with my kids!. We haven’t been to our local library in a while in sometime so we’ll probably head there soon. It’s a great place to go on a rainy summer day or a day when its too hot out.
These are all fun activities and great for every child. All really great suggestions
We are going this week to find rocks and paint them! My kiddos are excited and already planning out what to paint! So fun
Wonderful suggestions. My kids are grown and out of the house, but I remember getting stumped to find news ideas for keeping them busy over the summer.
Thanks so much for the fun ideas. I thought I was the only person that allowed ice cream for breakfast now and then, lol.
We did not make sidewalk chalk but we did use sidewalk chalk to practice writing our ABC’s!
These are wonderful! We love looking for airplanes. We made pizza last week. I think painting rocks and visiting the library is on the agenda for today.
These are all great ideas. I love the ice cream for breakfast or go bowling.
I agree, these are all wonderful ideas. Ice cream for breakfast is something any kid loves!
Homemade pizza is a weekly thing for us, the kids like making their own personal pizzas!
Ah! Good list! My son loves counting cars and planes. Painting rocks could be a lot of fun for a 4 year old. Will have to try it!
I love all your recommendations!!! It’s so fun to get creative with the kids in the summer!
We have wanted to go fly our new kite but havent found an afternoon we can! Need some good wind!
I think visiting the library is fun. Also, it’s nice to check out their summer reading challenges.
Love all your suggestions! I’m especially fond of the ice cream for breakfast idea 🙂
What great ideas. We have done many of them ourselves, we need to make homemade pizza – yum!
We have been having fun trying out some of your suggestion. It’s been a fun summer so far.
Airplanes! Now that is one my kids would love. We were out the other day and near the airport, a bunch of planes flew over my two boys 4 and 6 were going nuts!
That is a cute idea that my little ones would enjoy doing. We have a small airport near us we can do this at too!
As of right now, we just want summer weather! It’s been like fall here in Chicago that it’s not much fun outside at all!
I love #10! That’s a great way to get a chore done and have some water fun! I think we might try it soon…my car could certainly use it! lol
We just did the whole bowling thing and it was so much fun! I’ve been looking for more ideas to keep us going and having fun all summer long and this is a great list!
I let me boys have ice cream for dinner the other night and they were so surprised they didn’t know what to do with themselves! LOL! We do alot of the things you mentioned.
Enjoy all of these little moments! Mine are 20 and 17 now! I’ve got so many fun memories of playing with them and doing fun things. We still do fun things but they are much different now!
I like Christy’s comment below. I can totally relate. My oldest are 27 and 22. 😉