The passport to our summer!
The summer holidays are nearly upon us. I like to try to be organised during the holidays. Due to my M.E. I can't plan ahead too much as I don't know from one day to the next how I'm going to be feeling, but I can at least make a long list of ideas then we can decide day by day what we might like to do!
Most of the things on this list take little or no planning, some are quite messy! I've tried to include links to recipes, or photos to give you ideas.
There are so many more ideas I would like to list, but I have run out of time for now (school breaks up tomorrow!), so here is the link to my things to do with kids pinterest board, where I store all of my ideas!
If you have never used pinterest before be aware it is highly addictive!
Indoors
1. Play board games
2. Paint
3. Read a book - create a reading chart
4. Dance
5. Sing
6. Build a forte
7. Get the Lego out
8. Make a summer scrapbook (to show all the cool things you've done, made, collected!)
9. Take silly photos (To go in the scrapbook)
10. Have a tea party
2. Paint
3. Read a book - create a reading chart
4. Dance
5. Sing
6. Build a forte
7. Get the Lego out
8. Make a summer scrapbook (to show all the cool things you've done, made, collected!)
9. Take silly photos (To go in the scrapbook)
10. Have a tea party
11. Do cooking
12. Learn how to type
13. Make jewelry
14. Make playdough - recipe (will link this once I've written it out!)
15. Put together a playdough tool kit!
17. Practice sight words - make popsicle sticks
18. Scavenger hunt
19. Baloons
21. Sock fish fishing
22. Go on a colour hunt and make a giant rainbow collage
23. Make gloop - add colours (2 cups cornstarch 1 cup water)
24. Make a christmas shopping list
25. Grow beans in a jar with cotton wool
26. Grow cress
27. Make wrapping paper and gift tags and cards
28. Build with blocks
29. Have a huge doodling session
30. Potato painting
31. Science experiment - coloured water, celery or chinese leaf
32. Throw beanbags into a bucket (or newspaper balls, or soft toys)
33. Do a puzzle
34. Tie dye
35. Paint nails, do tattoos
36. Build things out of boxes - post box, cooker, shop
39. Frozen painting with Epson salts
40. Frozen hands (gloves with beads & buttons iced)
41. Reading scavenger hunt (or picture one)
42. Print and colour snowflakes (or other frozen theme)
43. Ice castle fun with shaving foam
44. Shaving foam paint
Outdoors
47.- collect and paint rocks
49.- buy rockery plants
50. Have a water fight
51. Blow bubbles
52. Hopscotch
53. Chalk drawings
54. Chalk paint
55. Have a picnic
56. Jump on the trampoline - find different ways to jump
57. Fly a kite
58. Balance beam - wooden plank
59. Painting with water
60. Throw a frisbee
61. Play with a football
62. Go berry picking
Go...
64. To the beach
65. To a sandy beach
66. To the arcade
67. To the park
68. To the pound shop
69. Swimming
70. Go on a nature walk, collect interesting things then take them home to paint! (Or to add to fairy garden)
