
When school's out for summer, it's time to dig into the adventure and action that only this season cacn bring! There is plenty of fun to be had — and it needn't cost a pretty penny. Here is a summer to-do list to get your wheels turning on how to make this the most memorable summer on record!

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Your Summer Fun To-Do List
- Join a reading program. Make one up yourself. Join a group at your local library, or just visit your local library with the kiddos once a week for some reading and a change of scenery.
- Draw. Color a picture for a long distance family member or friend. Draw some pictures for the elderly and take them to a local nursing home. Art work can always brighten up someone’s day.
- Upcycle something. Turn an empty milk carton into a bird feeder. Collect and decorate old cans for organizing craft supplies.
- Learn to cook or bake. Pick out something to make together as a family, and create a meal from scratch. Two birds, one stone.
- Play hide and seek. Or tag. Or kick the can, kickball, soccer, wiffleball, anything!
- Go on a family hike or bike ride.
- Create a play or a puppet show.
- Have a water balloon fight.
- Organize books or toys on a rainy day and choose some to donate.
- Make a snack necklace to eat during a movie.
- Go to a duck pond and feed the ducks.
- Build a fort, inside or outside. Or both!
- Paint some rocks for the garden.
- Make homemade play dough.
- Create an obstacle course and try to beat your best time.
- Make homemade lemonade, and set up a lemonade stand.
- Run through the sprinkler.
- Build sandcastles in a sand box or at the beach if you’re lucky enough to live close by.
- Make a homemade pizza.
- Chase butterflies.
- Wash the car — or the family pet.
- Make a treasure map together and hunt for buried treasures.
- Watch the clouds and figure out what they look like.
- Watch — or create — a parade.
- Play hopscotch.
- Write your own story.
- Paint with water.
- Play with Legos or blocks.
- Catch bugs or frogs.
- Play board games.
- Water the garden.
- Go on a nature scavenger hunt.
- Jump rope.
- Call a grandparent or great-grandparent and ask them what they used to do in summers when they were your age.
- Make leaf rubs.
- See how far you can throw a ball.
- Look through old pictures or scrapbooks.
- Make up a dance.
- Write a letter to your teacher.
- Go swimming.
- Go for a walk or run.
- Take turns making funny faces.
- Blow bubbles.
- Fly kites.
- Go to a museum.
- Have a picnic lunch at the park.
- Make mud pies.
- Have an ice cream party.
- Throw a Frisbee.
- Watch fireworks.
- Camp out in the back yard.
- Go to the zoo.
- Go mini golfing.
- Go to a pick-your-own farm and pick fresh fruits or veggies.
- Create and fulfill a local park bucket list for your town.
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