- Make beautiful designs with water color spin art with Buggy and Buddy
- Paint with your flip flops with JDaniel4’s Mom
- Make clay pot resist art garden sculptures with NurtureStore
- Set up an outdoor insect lab and explore your yard with Inner Child Learning
- Go on a fun color wheel hunt with Toddler Approved
- Make and play with a fun adding and counting machine with The Imagination Tree
- Play a sight word bowling game with Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
- Paint with shredded paper with Mess for Less
- Make your own pirate hooks for pretend play with All for the Boys
- Make a bucket list of all those great Pinterest ideas you’ve saved and start having fun with Creative Family Fun!
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10 Ways to Play This Weekend: Week 41
- Create with homemade ice chalk from Reading Confetti
- Play in your own DIY backyard water park with Learning 4 Kids
- Make pretty pinwheels with Red Ted Art
- Go on an outdoor alphabet treasure hunt with B-Inspired Mama
- Build a craft stick chain reaction with Frugal Fun for Boys. Awesome!!
- Play a fun movement game, Move Like a Gymnast, with Creative Family Fun (No special skills required!)
- Play math bingo with Teach Mama
- Make a mini pond in your garden with Sunny Day Today Mama
- Make DIY dancing bells and dance, dance, dance with Rainy Day Mum
- Make your own pipe cleaning bubble wands with Life with Moore Babies
How are you going to play this weekend?
10 Ways to Play This Weekend: Week 40
- Make rainbow bubble snakes with Housing a Forest
- Play sight word twister with A Mom With a Lesson Plan
- Make tin can stilts with Playful Learning
- Have a sensory tea party with Growing a Jeweled Rose
- Paint on foil with Picklebums
- Explore static electricity by creating a gravity-defying snake with Kids Activities Blog
- Make Mother’s Day portraits with Boy Mama Teacher Mama
- Make homemade plaster puzzles with Teach Beside Me
- Build a bug house with Growing Green Fingered Kids
- Make turtle herb planters and plant a few herbs with Reading Confetti
Ways to Play This Summer ~ A Summer Bucket List
It’s summer bucket list planning season again!
Last year, I gave you 200 ideas to help you write your own summer bucket list. This year, I’m doing something a little different.
In the spirit of my 10 Ways to Play This Weekend posts, I’ve made you a printable “Ways to Play This Summer.” Download and print it, so you’re never out of summer bucket list ideas.
The ideas are easy to do. You won’t need to go online and look up instructions. Most can even be done spur of the moment.
Use it as inspiration for writing your own summer bucket list, or better yet, use it as your summer bucket list.
There are only 15 ways to play, so it shouldn’t be too overwhelming.
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Ways to Play This Summer
1. Make homemade popsicles and eat them outside
2. Go to the farmer’s market and find something new to eat
3. Gather your friends and put on a play based on your favorite story
4. Tour all the parks in your hometown
5. Invite the neighborhood kids over & have a backyard dance party
6. Catch fireflies
7. Turn over a rock and look for bugs
8. Plant a seed & watch it grow
9. Buy a new board game & learn how to play it
10. Get a library card & read as many books as you can
11. Play in the sprinkler
12. Make a backyard obstacle course
13. Create your own family newspaper
14. Go stargazing
15. Go on a picnic
Do you make a summer bucket list? If not you should definitely make one this year. They’re lots of fun! If this one isn’t your style, hop on over to No Time for Flash Cards for a fun summer reading bucket list.
Click here to download your Ways to Play This Summer
10 Ways to Play This Weekend: Week 39
- Make cute paper plate lady bugs with Crafts by Amanda
- Do some experiments to find out just how big the dinosaurs were with Frugal Fun for Boys
- Go on a neighborhood “I Spy” walk with Mess for Less
- Play railroad word crash with Play Trains
- Play color mixing tic-tac-toe with Blog Me Mom
- Make hand print flowers for mom with Motherhood on a Dime
- Have messy fun with goop with Creative Family Fun
- Make a neighborhood tree guide with Kid World Citizen
- Do raindrop math with Toddler Approved
- Have a family fun taste test with Awesomely Awake