Summer Ideas to keep your kiddo's busy

• Make a weekly or biweekly trip to the Library. Many have summer reading programs you can sign up for.
• Stay up late to Star Gaze.
  
• Pack a picnic and head to a park, lake, timber... spend the morning hiking, playing, fishing... then have lunch. Invite another family to join you!
• Take a Night Hike to observe the creatures of the night.
  
• Camp! Pitch a tent in your own backyard or at a local campground. We've even pitched the tent in the living room before :) Make Hobo's over the fire, roast marshmallows, cook breakfast.
  
• See if the area conservation center has offers summer day camps.
• Are you headed on vacation? Print Free Road Trip Activity pages to take with you.
• Go swimming in a lake with a beach. Pack plenty of beach toys!
• Make a kite. Then have a kite flying contest.
• Try to fry an egg on a hot side walk. We did this as kids ;)
• Relax on a steamy hot day with a bowl of popcorn and a movie.
  
• Paint rocks.
• Host a neighborhood bike wash. Complete with buckets of bubbles & rags. Serve Popsicles with the bikes have been washed.
  
• Host a backyard scavenger hunt. Hide little treasures for the kids to find.
• Bake, then deliver some goodies to a neighbor.
  
• Recycle broken crayons.
• Pick flowers from your yard, display them on your dinner table. Use the good dishes for dinner that night.
  
• Make your own bubbles.
• Volunteer at an Nursing Home. Elderly people LOVE to visit with youngsters.
• Enjoy your children.
  

It won't be long until your children have summer jobs and are all grown up.
Let the dishes go, allow the floors NOT to sparkle.
Embrace this time in your life!