Parental Wisdom® by Tina Nocera

Summer is a state of mind.

Before you blink and it’s over, create a summer to remember!

There are 31 days in July and August – here are 62 ideas.  Spoiler alert – none require tech gadgets!

1. Make smores
2. Have a bike decorating contest for July 4th (if you do not have a bike check out downhill bikes for sale Adelaide catalog).
3. Fina a drive-in movie theatre near you.
4. Plant a vegetable garden
5. Make paper airplanes
6. Make your own sidewalk chalk and then create outside art
7. Build a new Lego challenge
8. Learn a new card game
9. Ask your parents or grandparents to teach you a game they played as kids
10. Make and fly your own kite
11. Go on a scavenger hunt
12. Go to a minor league baseball game
13. Go on a nature walk and take photos
14. Print the photos and make them into postcards and mail to your grandparents!
15. With your parents help, plan and make dinner one evening
16. How long can you jump rope?
17. Go to the library and borrow language tapes, and learn a few phrases.
18. Catch lightning bugs
19. Pay for ice cream of the person behind you in line
20. Go to a water park, or run through a sprinkler
21. Play minute to win it games
22. Fill water balloons and play water balloon piñata
23. Have a dance party
24. Play board games
25. Help take care of an elderly neighbor’s yard
26. Hike in a state park
27. Visit a museum you’ve never been to
28. Reorganize your room
29. Have a garage sale
30. Make and mail cards to soldiers
31. Bake cookies and take them to your local fire and/or police station
32. Make popsicles
33. Create a music video
34. Try an outdoor science experiment
35. Have a car wash
36. Make finger paints
37. Play ultimate Frisbee
38. Create your own family madlibs game
39. Attend a free concert
40. Host an outdoor sleepover
41. Play manhunt
42. Visit a farmers market
43. Go to a planetarium
44. Try miniature golf
45. Create a building from marshmallows and toothpicks
46. Tie dye
47. Make your own glitter slime
48. Design your own pillow case with fabric markers
49. Make your own outdoor twister game
50. Make a puppet theatre and have a show
51. Homemade play dough
52. Host a joke telling contest
53. Play Simon Says
54. Visit a local factory
55. Make a slip and slide
56. Have a picnic
57. Go fishing
58. Go berry picking, and then make a pie
59. Tell ghost stories
60. Make a stand and sell lemonade
61. Put on a magic show
62. Play charades

Feel free to add more.

Have an amazing summer!

Tina Nocera, Founder

Parental Wisdom®

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