We break up for the summer holidays next week. I cant wait for nursery runs to be done with and no rushing out in the morning. I do need to have a plan of action though as my two like to be busy and are used to being in nursery four days a week. I’ve come up with a list of free or cheap things to do.
- Find a local spot and go blackberry picking and make a pie
- Play good old chalk games like hopscotch
- Make a fairy garden or plant seeds
- Toast marshmallows for desert on the BBQ one eve
- Bake a cake
- Make paper mache masks and paint them
- Make slime
- Go to the library and choose some books/learn something new
- Have a teddy bears picnic
- Make some hand print art
- Make a mud pie
- Have a movie night with tickets and popcorn
- Camp indoors one night
- Go on a nature walk with a checklist of things to tick off
- Have a play date
- Climb a mountain
- Paddle in a stream
- Make play doh
- Make ice lollies or frozen yogurt pops
- Make some recycled crayons with an ice mold
- Take your paper outdoors and paint what you see
- Go on a road trip
- Have a PJ day (several)
- Visit a museum
- Get the littes to help buy and cook dinner
- Act of kindness – make cards or collages for the neighbours or bake them some biscuits
- Visit a castle
- Have a screen free day
- Have a water balloon fight
- Make a bird feeder out of a milk carton
- Go and see a movie (Mini mornings are on every day in the summer £2.50 per person)
- Collect sea shells on the beach and make jewelry with them
- Make sock puppets with googly eyes and wool for hair
- Write/send letters or postcards and mail them to family members or friends
- Have a hula hoop contest
- Make tie die t shirts
- Make pizzas
- Make sun catchers
- Do a science experiment (mentos and cola is an easy one)
- Make a house and furniture out of recycling for dolls or figures
- Make a time capsule and bury it in the garden
- Finger paint
- Freeze toys in ice
- Bubble wrap stamp painting
- Sort out toys you no longer play with a donate them
- Go camping
- Make a tin foil river in the garden
- Make a bug house
- Make a summer scrap book
- Fly a kite
Hope this has given you some ideas of things to fill those summer days – let me know of any ideas you have too 🙂 Happy Summer 2018.