Inspired by my kids' favorite show of the summer, Phineas and Ferb, we decided to make a list of fun things we wanted to do this summer. We moved from Michigan (with a late-ending school year) to Missouri (with an early-starting school year), so we calculated a short summer of only 60 days. Add a big move to a new house, and we didn't have much time, but we tried to make the most of it. Of the 91 items on our list, we did 46. Below, I've underlined the ones we accomplished. Some we chose to skip due to budget constraints, but most of the ones we missed are either making it to our fall fun list or are saved for next year. All in all, it was a fun summer!
60 Days of Summer Vacation!!!!!!!
* Make a movie.
* Draw a cartoon or
comic.
* Accessorize/Decorate
your bike.
* Make a coloring
page of yourself.
* Invent your own
fruit smoothie flavor.
* Go on a campout.
* Make up a secret
handshake
* Plant a sunflower
fort
* Catch fireflies
* Make a bike wash.
* Hide a treasure in
your backyard and draw a map for someone to find it.
* Learn to play
old-timey games like jacks and marbles.
* Have a pie-eating
contest.
* Play croquet in the
backyard
* Make bottle cap
boats and ice cube boats and sail them on a tin foil river.
* Play rainbow
bracelet tag
* Visit a new library
and sign up for the summer reading program
* Build a zip line in
the back yard
* Backyard games with
pool noodles
* Huge-size angry
birds in the backyard
* Frisbee golf in the
backyard with hampers
* Make soap clouds in
the microwave, a mentos volcano, elephant toothpaste, and self-inflating
balloons
* Walk on stilts
* Have a water gun
shootout with golf tees nailed into a board holding ping pong balls
* Go to the zoo
* Everyone picks one
thing to do today (youngest to oldest)
* Cover the driveway
in chalk drawings
* Make a marshmallow
shooter
* Make bubble snakes
and super huge bubbles
* Have a “spongeball
splashpants” water fight.
* Flashlight/reflective
tape hide and go seek with guys
* Jump on the
trampoline with ice cubes and water balloons
* Have a stuffed
animal picnic
* Make a masking tape
city with roads for hot wheels cars
* Water balloon
piñatas
* Do some printable
mazes
* Go to Silver Dollar
City
* Go to a Springfield
Cardinals game
* Make homemade ice
cream
* Hang a tire swing
in the backyard
* Decorate your own
shoes
* Play some new pool
games and jump off the diving board
* Learn how to jump
rope and double dutch with fun rhymes
* Make a marble track
down all the stairs
* Have an Olympic
week. Each person gets a country,
learn about that
country for a day, and keep track of
the medals won by the
countries.
* Write and send
letters to all grandpas and grandmas
* Go dollar store
shopping. Everyone gets $3!
* Family Bike Ride on
the Ozark Greenways Trail
* Go for a walk at
the Nature Center
* make a newspaper
fort
* Make all kinds of
paper airplanes (including oversized) and test them
* Roast hot dogs and
marshmallows over a fire
* Play kickball
* Make homemade
rootbeer
* Get slurpies
* Kids make dinner!
* Go to an Imax movie
* Sonic happy hour
* Go to Andy’s
* Make a sprinkler
obstacle course
* Canoe Trip
* Fly straw rockets
* Make a stop motion
film
* Make q-tip/popsicle
stick bows and arrows. Measure the
farthest shot!
* Make your own paper
Star Wars guys or something from the Toymaker website
* Make your own rock
candy
* Make light saber Popsicle
cozies
* Dig up some ice
treasures
* Make treats for a
neighbor
* Visit a nursing
home
* Drink
glow-in-the-dark drinks
* Build a natural
fort in the woods
* Build a super-huge
fort inside
* Make our own paper
mache piñata
* Use the sewing
machine to sew cool new pj pants
* Try geocaching
* Send pictures into
the Friend magazine
* Wash and wax car
and van
* Make and play with
moon sand
* Have a “secret
agent spy” day: collect fingerprints, bag evidence, make it through a laser
zone, make up a secret code and send a message.
* Make a slip n slide
hockey rink and play a match
* Screen-print
t-shirts
* Make hand shadows
* Have a
glow-in-the-dark bath
* play Pooh Sticks
* Paint with your
mouth
* Make Frozen Banana
ice cream
* Play minute to win
it with friends
* Make shrinky-dink key
chains
* Play Cat’s Cradle
* Have a crazy hair day
* Backyard water gun
fight!
I did take pictures of some of the things we did. And, my brothers were a really big part of the fun. Mitch and Alex made these awesome stilts for us to try (I'm afraid of saws). They are way harder to walk on than they look! I had to practice for quite a while to be able to go 6 steps. Mitch and Alex were pros, and my dad just hopped on and walked across the whole driveway. I guess he had some as a kid, and we just never knew about his stilt skills! We also made a safer and easier pair for Audrey and Luke.
Here are some pics of our popsicle stick bows with q-tip arrows. Alex was the engineer of this project, even creating wrist quivers for the "arrows". They worked great!
I threw this together one afternoon while Max was napping. It's my quick and easy version of Angry Birds, with animal bowling guys standing in for the pigs, balls as the birds, and an exercise band as a catapult. Lots of fun! Note: it was actually easier to tie one side of the band to a tree and have me hold the other side, I just don't have a picture of that. It was kind of hard for Audrey to hold it strong enough to get a good pullback. And, footballs were the easiest balls for the kids to shoot.
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