Summer Time!

I like to keep the kids busy during the summer so no one fights and makes life stressful.  Since I am trying to make plans for a wide range of children 2years-8 years old it can difficult.  I like to teach the kids about Service and do a service project once a week with the kids.  I can never figure out what to do especially with a 2 year old, it hit me today!  I decided there has to be something we can do at the Humane Society, so I gave our local humane society a call, a sure enough!  Once a week we can go play, walk, feed, and wash the animals!  How perfect!  Teach my children about service, loving animals, and being kind.  Just pray we do not end up with any animals by the end of the summer!  Here is our other ideas for summer activities:

Work on School in morning….letters and numbers (for my 5 year old getting ready for Kindergarten)

Military letters (men and women serving over seas)

Animal shelter

Elderly home (craft project with them)

Movies (rent movies or dollar theater has kids movies once a week for 1.00)

Library

Play dough day

Paint (outside in the side walk, or on a twister game board)

Chalk (outside and in our HAIR)

Tye Dye (socks, shirts, and underwear)

Clean house day (once a week, teach the children the values of a clean house and helping out in our home)

Water (slip and slide, water balloons, lake, pool.....)

Service (taking homemade treats to Elderly from church and in our neighborhood)

Cooking (cupcakes, cookies, etc)

Park (visit a different park once a week, feed the ducks)

Butterfly house (love this place)

Do you have any ideas?