- Camp out in your backyard.
- Play shaving cream twister.
- Play backyard Yahtzee with giant dice and a bucket.
- Play water balloon baseball.
- Have a nature scavenger hunt.
- Sit on the ground identify the shapes of the clouds.
- Pick strawberries at a local farm.
- Watch a movie at the drive in.
- Join the Summer Storytime program at your local library.
- Watch the sunrise.
- Build a sandcastle.
- Make your own tire swing.
- Make water bombs out of sponges.
- Create your own backyard splash pad!
- Decorate the driveway with sidewalk chalk and have a photoshoot or draw a hopscotch board.
- Perform an easy science experiment by making soap clouds.
- Make homemade ice cream.
- Buy a popsicle mold and make homemade popsicles.
- Paint with squirt guns on a canvas.
- Paint with bubbles!
- Make a bird feeder.
- Plant a fairy or a dinosaur garden.
- Watch a movie in your backyard.
- Catch lightning bugs.
- Stargaze with your family.
- Work a lemonade stand.
- Have a water bucket relay.
- Build a fort.
- Paint with colored ice cubes.
- Have your kids create a Summer Scrapbook by keeping a journal about their favorite Summer activities, and adding mementos and pictures.
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