It’s summertime and I have one goal for the next few months: Have fun and make memories as a family.
Homeschooling has been very rewarding for us this year, but I’m ready to put down my teacher hat for awhile and just be mom. Sure, I still deal with daily discipline, but I’m so ready to simply enjoy my kids. So inspired by Little Bit Funky, we are starting One Fun Thing a Day. The rules are simple: the kids are responsible for getting their morning chores completed without a fuss (getting dressed, brushing teeth, making their bed, helping clean up breakfast) and then they can participate in the activity. Every day, we’ll do something new and I want to join in too!
Now please don’t misunderstand me. This isn’t one of those projects to over-schedule and micro-manage every minute of my children’s day. I don’t have lots of money to spend and nothing will really be mind-blowing in terms of excitement. Some days, we may be finished in 10 minutes! I just want us to spend time together. My hope is that, ten years down the line, they will look back at this summer (and the summers to come) with fondness. Not because anything was out-of-this-world spectacular (no trips to Disney or Hawaii are in our near future!), but because we made memories together with lots of laughs and probably a few messes.
Here are a few of the ideas I’ve jotted down:
- Cooking Class: make English Muffin pizzas
- Paper airplanes
- Take a picnic lunch to the park
- Design your own plate with a MakIt kit
- Cooking Class: make chocolate covered strawberries
- Sweet Frog visit
- Build a huge fort with blankets: try a fan fort?
- Find a new playground
- Cooking Class: make chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches
- Lowe’s Build & Grow Clinic
- DIY Slurpees
- Visit Daddy at his office and take him out to lunch
- Build rubber band powered Lego cars
- Chopped Challenge: Daddy team vs. Mamma team
- New water guns
- Attend a kids program at the library
- Cooking Class: make a Fourth of July flag cake
- Make marbled paper with shaving cream
- Take the kids to 5 Below and let them pick anything in the store
- Tie-dye T-shirts
- Water balloon fight
- $1 movie at the theater
UPDATE: Check out the details for Days 1-15 here!
