Summer Fun Update

It's only been a week, but we're off to a good start with our list.  Though, in fairness, we did a few before school was even out.

1. Party/activity in honor of Aunt Sis
2. Go swimming at Y with friends
3. Meet friends at ice rink:  this is actually tomorrow
4. *Attend town festival in June/volunteer at historic house:  we did this before school was even out!
5. *Beach trip in city
6. *Putt-putt golf
7. *Baseball game
8. Family book club (we're reading Menagerie and also Redwall)
9. Eat Dole Whip:  first night of summer, we got Dole Whip and Fluffernutter sundaes!
10. Make ice cream
11. Go to outdoor concert
12. Have a barbecue (after bricking fire pit)
13. Raise butterflies
14. Have a lemonade stand (cookies for cancer?)
15. Picnic:  we had a deli picnic, but I hope to do something more sophisticated soon.
16. Mario kart-athon
17. Movie night
18. Old tv show marathon (ours or theirs)
19. Watch some movie musicals 
20. Play in sprinkler:  and used it to make a slippery water slide!
21. *Go to culture festival (Scottish, Irish, Greek, etc.):  we loved the Greek festival food, as always!  
22. *Go to Renaissance festival
23. *Go to zoo
24. Stargazing at observatory
25. *Biking
26. Celebrate 4th of July
27. Celebrate Solstice:  they stayed up "all night," which was midnight for Sis and about an hour later for Bud.  I even played Mario Kart with them at midnight.
28. Celebrate Mama's birthday:  a weekend of take-out meals and movies!
29. Birthday party for kids:  coming soon, Minions movie birthday party.
30. *Go to nature center
31. *Go to aquarium
32. *Go to bird festvial
33. Try a new craft/art project
34. Decorate chalkboard for summer:  we started our own mini-drawings of Awesome Summer Things.
35. Learn to cook weekly dinners
36. Make ice cube candles
37. Make soap
38. Activity kit day
39. Host a sleepover with friends.  
40. Learn how to clean bathrooms:  Bud earned a ticket for this already--on his own initiation!
41. Learn how to work washer/dryer
42. Make popsicles.
43. Hang pictures.
44. Learn an ASL sign a day (or more)
45. Learn some computer coding using Scratch
46. Make shrub for 4th of July
47. Make friendship bread starter and share
48. Photos with public art around town ("benching," Bud called it)
49. Make homemade virgin pina coladas
50. Make blankets for cat shelter



Learn a new game
Learn a new magic/card trick
*Go letterboxing or geocaching locally
Attend friends' Friday Night Dance Party:  for first one, the kids swam and tried "kiddy crack" (butter-cinnamon-sugar spread on graham crackers)
Start afternoon tea party tradition ("Tea Tuesdays")
Explore new music genres together ("Music Mondays"):  we started with the 80s.
Practice making lemon curd and clotted cream
Research places to go in England, etc
Purge and donate toys and books
Pajamas day
No electricity day
Do a 1000 piece puzzle
Kite flying
Wash car
Buy new couches?
Community service project (volunteer with cats?)
Do nothing special