- Build a treehouse.
- Visit a local farmer’s market.
- Stage your own scavenger hunt.
- Go to a local farm where
Make a fort out of cardboard boxes.- you can pick fruits, vegetables or even berries.
- Write and illustrate your own family’s summer memories book and have it published into a hardcover book.
- Donating time cleaning up the trash in local parks.
- Have a backyard campfire or head to a local camping park for the real thing.
- Plan a town or city wide waterballoon fight. Share on your city’s local facebook pages and using the right hashtags on Twitter.
- Go for a hike with the whole family. Everyone should collect their favorite natural items they can find in the area and make a collage all together.
- Make library trips a regular weekly occurrence and everyone has to participate. Moms and Dads can read some children’s books and the children can read appropriate adult books. Have a family book club.
- Plant a garden of fruits and veggies. If you’re limited in space, plant a few herbs and spices.
- Have an outdoor painting party using canvases. Or plan a huge sidewalk chalk art exhibit in your town.
- Turn the backyard into a carnival. Set up a face painting area and games like ring toss.
- Visit a new museum.
- Learn about stargazing and identify as many constellations as possible. Check local websites or newspapers to see if there are any local astronomy groups for kids.
- If you have a lake nearby, go hunting for small fossils.
- Break out your baseball gloves or your flags for football and start an impromptu neighborhood game.
- Visit your local water or amusement park.
- Visit an aquarium or zoo to learn about all types of wildlife.
- Set up a bike or carwash to earn money for a favorite local charity.
- Assemble a real family cookbook and have it printed for every member of the family.
- Take a free kid’s workshop at stores like Lowe’s, Home Depot or Pottery Barn.
- Let kids paint each other with washable tempera paint, then wash it off in the sprinklers.
- Visit a local cave.
- Enter everyone in a water lesson. Younger kids may need to learn to swim, juveniles could improve their already basic skills. Adults can learn more advanced techniques in a swimming pool, a lake or the ocean.
- Pick a nearby town to visit for the day.
- Have a firefly catching contest. But let them go at the end of the night.
- Create your family’s own personal smoothie recipe.
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