Labor Day: What I did on my Summer Vacation
Remember my Summer Bucket List I made on Memorial Day? Well, here is the list again, with the things we accomplished crossed out. How was your summer?
Go to the Ocean beach
Write messages in note cards stick them in balloons and send them off
Play with Zentangles
Create adventure journals to record the summer
Give each child a disposable camera and a blank book and tell them to document their life for a week..or two
Practice wood carving
Give each child a disposable camera and a blank book and tell them to document their life for a week..or two
Practice wood carving
Have a 17th birthday party for Sam
Have a sleepover on the trampoline Make watermelon sorbets in lime shells Go roller-skating
Have a sleepover on the trampoline Make watermelon sorbets in lime shells Go roller-skating
Take advantage of the summer foods and grilling.
Make sunprints
Make sunprints
Go to a pirate festival.
Make/Go on a Scavenger hunt Go to Sonic for half-priced shakes
Have fun with Family Game nights. Go stargazing or watch a meteor shower...if there is one this summer. Make a kaleidoscope
Make Tie dye T-shirts Play games in the backyard Make an art journal
Catch fireflies
Have a pizza party with a Make-Your-Own Pizza bar and a Make-Your-Own Fruit Pizza bar for dessert
Go to a museum (Air Mobility Command Museum, Calvert Marine Museum, Goddard Visitor's Center NASA)
Play with balloons
Go to a National park...Jr. Ranger program?
Crack marbles in the oven, and perhaps make jewelry out of them
Go to a National park...Jr. Ranger program?
Crack marbles in the oven, and perhaps make jewelry out of them
Go to the zoo (Plumpton Park Zoo)
Make hemp cord bracelets
Make Scandinavian Shaved Wood Ornaments for Christmas in July Have a waffle bar
Make Watermelon Treat Packets Make beaded spiders Make handmade soap with shells, etc. in them
See fireworks Have a picnic on the beach
Play games at the beach
Play games at the beach
Go to Ms Pat's Pre-Bastille Day Party. Make macrame candle holders and hang them. Light them at night. Transfer pictures to tiles
Have a sundae bar. Have a cake decorating party
Have a 20th birthday party for Alex Fly in a plane with Young Eagles Drive-in movie or Movie night (Holes)
Go camping Preserve a spider web Make an origami boat Make bread clay Go to China town or Little Italy? Have a bonfire
Go swimming Send a message in a bottle Light a dandelion on fire
Celebrate the 4th of July. Take photos from a photo booth Make indestructible bubbles
Go on a biking trail Make a kite Fly a kite
Have Brown Cows, Black Cows and other Ice Cream Sodas. Teach Sam and Katie how to drive
Go to a restaurant with a group of friends (Does two count as a group?) Go Puddle jumping Make homemade ice cream
Take the Fort Miles Lantern Tour Find a four leaf clover Sleep under the stars
Make a watermelon cake. Buy an underwater camera and take photos
Build sandcastles Take easels down to the beach and paint Make freezer paper stencils
Have a Seafood Boil. Make a leaf bowl Make walking sticks.
Go see a play (South Pacific). Make tin box scene magnets for the fridge from a mint's tin
Make homemade cookies using a new recipe. (These are not exactly homemade, but with a little help from Pillsbury, we made these sand dollar cookies.) Have a cookies and milk bar with pink milk, banana milk, chocolate milk, vanilla milk....
Make lanterns Make a beachy picture frame Make a gift for friends
Make lots of s'mores. Make balloon and sand juggling balls
Make a summer banner. Create a backyard sign of places we've traveled to. Camp in a yurt
Go letterboxing
Make a backyard chalkboard
Make our own personalized mugs with Sharpies Take a moonlit walk in PJ's
Start a collection and keep it all summer
Start a collection and keep it all summer
Put in and attend to a vegetable garden Have a garden party...eat dinner outside Make a pond in a barrel Get snowcones from an ice cream truck at the beach
Go to Great Falls/Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Make a sand pile and a rock pile in the backyard Spray Garden stones with glow in the dark paint so that they will glow at night
Play with ice when it is hot Raise silkworms Let paper lanterns go
Have fun with the rock tumbler. Take a summer park tour of all the parks in the area and have popcorn in the park one day and do science experiments at the park another day. Leave coins on the playground for children to find after we are gone.
Go strawberry picking
Make a bean teepee or a sunflower house Play with sidewalk chalk
Make a firepit
Make a bean teepee or a sunflower house Play with sidewalk chalk
Make a firepit
Celebrate James 13 1/2 birthday Paint with marbles Go to a pet shop just for fun
Go to Red Robin. Make a tin can howler Make a fort in the woods or backyard
Go to a Renaissance Fair Go to a Western Themed park Have a tea time taste test Play games with rocks...how many can we come up with?
Camp in a Treehouse. Make a hovercraft Learn screenprinting
Go to Harper's Ferry. Make floating boat luminaries to float at night Make wire sculptures Get a dog
Eat at a real diner. Make Alcohol Ink Drink Coasters
Make an embroidered painting
Make an embroidered painting
Go to an Art Museum (Anne Marie Garden and Arts Center). Eat Popsicles IN the swimming pool. Become acquainted with three local birds.
Make a summer table decoration. Go on an “Early Bird” adventure. Get up at the crack of dawn, stay dressed in PJs for a sunrise picnic breakfast and walk on the beach. Go on one-on-one adventures with each child. Have them pick the destination. Catch frogs.
Make a watermelon print summer table cloth. Make shrinky-dink rings Do textured coloring Make plaster dipped flowers
Visit a Lighthouse (Drum Point Lighthouse, Maryland) Make lavender wands Make beach houses with shell roofs How many different natural places can we go this summer? Stream, ocean, fields, mountains, woods, pond....
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