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Kids Activities- Gold Coin Vowel Sound Drop

June 17, 2014 By Deirdre

Working on the different sounds vowels helps children who are learning to read master the sounds. Interacting with vowels sounds in fun pirate themed kids activities helps children identify words that they know that contain each of the vowel sounds. It also helps to reinforce the vowels sounds children already in their auditory memory.

This is one of those kids activities that children can play a number of ways. They can work on long vowel sounds, short vowel sounds or a mixture of both. We focused on long vowel sounds when we explored this activity

These game could be played inside or out. Kids activities that can be played both places give you the option of playing this game in various learning and playing spaces.

Supplies Needed for the Kids Activities

Large plastic container
Construction paper to create a skull and crossbones
Heavy duty glue stick
Toy gold coins
Permanent marker (black)
Container for coins

Creating the Kids Activities Container and Coins

I hand drew the skull and cross bones for the outside of the large plastic container. You could easily print out a coloring page with the skull and cross bones and have your kids color it. When they are colored in, you could glue the picture to the container.

The gold coins we used came from a party store. On each gold coin I wrote one of the letters that is a vowel. It was a challenge to write the letters on the bumpy surface of the coins. Some letters came out much clearer than others.

How to Play Gold Coin Vowel Sound Drop

We took the coins and coin drop container out into the back yard. JDaniel was encouraged to stand straight and tall and try dropping the coin in the container after telling me a word that had the vowel sound featured on the coin. (He started to drop the coin from a lower height after having a few coins barely miss the container.)

I encouraged him to stand up straighter and hold the coin up at about waist height. He found that the coin ended up going into the coin drop container more easily when he wasn’t bent over. It was also a whole lot more rewarding.

It was actually harder to get the coin in the container then it was to come up with long vowel word to match the letter on the coin.

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Outdoor Activities and Learning Games for Kids

May 30, 2014 By Deirdre

Getting outside to play and learn with outdoor activities you have put together with or for your children is fun. Simple supplies like chalk, paint, water, a roll of drawing paper, old water bottles, and some farm animals were used to create these fifteen outdoor activities. Some are messy, but not one of them is difficult to put together. All of these outdoor activities feature things that you may have at home already or could get at your local big box store.

Outdoor Activities and Learning Games for Kids

If you are heading to the beach this summer, you may want to take a plastic tablecloth along with you. We used a plastic tablecloth as the liner for a very own homemade tide pool. JDaniel was thrilled to help dig the hole for the tide pool. Filling the tide pool with water was almost as much fun. We all worked on filling it together. Getting to sit in the tide pool was the best!

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You may not be able to go to the beach this summer. If you can’t you can bring the beach to your water table. We have water table with two sections. In one section we placed water. In the second section we place oatmeal. (The oatmeal was supposed to be soft sand.) Then we took out some of JDaniel’s farm animals and a farmer for his Fisher-Price Little People Fun Sounds Farm. The animals had the best time playing in the sand and splashing in the water. The farmer joined in too.

The water table also has been used to create a pretend play ice cream parlor with ice and shaving cream. That was messy, but great for pretend play.

Gluing foam fish to the bottom of a pair of flip flops creates a great tool for painting fish prints. JDaniel brushed paint onto the bottom of the flip flops and walked up and down a roll of paper on our deck or driveway. The fish flops made a really fun under water scene.

You can also do math with golf tees and yarn on your deck. They make great tools for making shapes. These shapes can be used to talk about geometry, area, and perimeter.

Color chalk circles draw on the drive way made a great way to work on sorting objects by color. We used objects that were already in the garage for this color sorting fun.

Hopping, skipping, or galloping down a chalk number line is such fun. I wrote the numbers on the number line, but your kids could easily do the number writing for the number line. It is one of our favorite outdoor activities!

Creating a chalk drawing face with items found outside is also a lot of fun. It is fun to change them around and see if it makes the face changes its mood.

Starting seeds in an indoor paper plate garden and moving them outside once they have sprouted is lots of fun! It is one of those indoor activities that becomes an outdoor activity.

An upcycled juice bottle makes a great watering bottle when caring for seeds. This one is really easy to make.

JDaniel and I created a spider web trellis in our backyard. We used a plastic lid and a garbage bag to make a spider to live on the web.

Giant alphabet letters are super fun. We did a number for activities with these giant chalk letters and a spray bottle.

These recycled fish loved hanging on a coral reef made a fallen tree branch. They hung out of the deck for a day before going to live in JDaniel’s room. He just loves this recycled bottle fish mobile.

We have also made a patriotic wind spinner that was outside on sunny days before going to live in JDaniel’s room.

An outdoor gnome or fairy home made with items from our recycling bin was fun to make and great for pretend play.

I hope you will find an outdoor activity in this collection that you are dying to head outside and try with your children. If you are looking for more outdoor activities for kids, you may want to visit my Outdoor Fun for Kids Board.

How to Make Confetti Eggs

May 22, 2014 By Deirdre

“Mama, can you find out how to make confetti eggs and make some?” JDaniel asked. “Sure! I will find out and make you some confetti eggs,” I said.

Every year JDaniel’s school fun fair has confetti eggs available for purchase for one ticket. For the last two years he had bought a few eggs and then chased his dad and I around until he was able to hit us with one. This year we bought two confetti eggs for JDaniel to share with the boy next door. He really wanted them to chase each other around the yard until the got each other.

Confetti eggs are fragile and the eggs made it in the house from the car after the fun fair, but they did not make it outside for the chase. That is when JDaniel asked if I could find out how to make confetti eggs and make some more.

I searched the internet for ideas on how to make them. I watched a video by Happy Auer and read a few blog posts. Each had unique or different twist on how to make them. After reading and watching how to make confetti eggs, these are the steps I ended up using and the supplies needed to make them.

Here are the supplies you need to make confetti eggs:

Raw eggs
Spoon
Small bowls for dye bowls
Vinegar
Water
Food Coloring
Homemade or store bought confetti
Tissue paper for strips or stripes (optional)
Tissue paper or cupcake liners for confetti egg lids (optional)

How to make confetti eggs:

Create a hole in the top of each raw egg. Some people tap the egg on the counter to get the initial crack. (I tried this technique and ended up with a hairline crack going partially down the side of one egg.) The second technique was to tap the top of the egg with a spoon to make the first crack. This is the technique that worked best for me.
Remove enough of the egg shell from the top of each egg to create a small whole or a medium sized hole. It is up to you.
Remove the raw egg from the shell of your eggs by shaking it over a measuring cup. (I used the raw eggs to to make of brownies. You could clean out an egg as you needed it and save the shells until you had enough eggs for your kids or just make a giant omelet or strata.)
Prepare dye bowl with mixture of water, vinegar and food coloring. I used about a 1/4 cup of vinegar, a half cup of water and enough squirts of food coloring until I got the color I wanted.
Place the eggs into the color baths. (I created two red and two blue eggs. I left two eggs white.)
Place the dyed eggs back in the egg carton to dry.
Use a hole punch to create small dots for the eggs or buy confetti at the store. I wanted tissue strips or stripes to put in the eggs so, I cut small strips out of tissue paper.
When the confetti eggs are dry place the confetti mixture into the top of each egg. I used a funnel for the dots and my fingers to put the tissue strips into them.
If you are worried about the confetti and tissue falling out, you can glue the center of a cupcake liner over the opening like Happy Auer did. Another option is that you could glue a tissue paper circle over the opening. I just left the top open. The idea of having confetti fly out of the egg as it is thrown appealed to me.

Tips for Throwing Confetti Eggs

Throw them in the driveway for easy clean up.
Try to have at least two eggs per child.
Create eggs and confetti to match an upcoming holiday or event.
Throw the eggs outside

Our eggs were created with a patriotic themed for Memorial day. Confetti eggs could really be made for any event or holiday. It might even be fun to have creating them be a party activity.

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Interactive Reading Game- Soccer Kick Sounds

May 19, 2014 By Deirdre

Part of learning to read is being able to identify the sounds in words. I recently took JDaniel’s love of soccer and a desire to work on beginning, medial and ending sounds together in a game. I call this interactive reading game game Soccer Kick Sounds. It ended up being a fun game to take outside and play although it could be played inside with a soft soccer ball or in a gym.

Creating the Interactive Reading Game

We started by adding black pentagons to the back of a white paper plates. It was really challenging to cut out pentagons free hand. Honestly a number of our pentagons don’t have five sides of equal length. They looked enough like pentagons that we went ahead and used them anyway. We tried to make our paper plate soccer balls look at a soccer ball in our garage. The thought was that even odd looking pentagons should be arrange the right way. (It would have been fine to just add them anywhere I guess.)

Paper Plate Soccer Ball

On the back of each paper plate I placed a letter of the alphabet. I was careful in selecting letters that I could think of words with it in their beginning, middle, and ending sound. If I could think of words, I thought he could too. I also used the letters p, b, and d. Those letters are commonly reversed. I wanted to plant in his mind words that featured each of those letters as we played.

Playing Soccer Kick Sounds

With the plates ready we headed outside. We tried to spread out the plates so that it would take a kick or two to reach them. They weren’t too spread out although they definitely could have been. (Maybe we will do that next time.)

When a plate was reached, we picked it up and try to come with the three words. One that started with that sound, one that ended with that sound and one with that sound in the middle. Both JDaniel and I took turns kicking to a soccer ball plate. I thought part of what made it an interactive reading game was that we both interacted with the game elements and with each other.

Sometimes when we try interactive reading or math activities JDaniel responds that it was an okay game. This time he asked that we play it again another day. It looks like we will be working on our soccer skills and letter sounds again this summer.

For more reading activities you may want to visit my Learning to Read board on Pinterest.

Worksheets for Kindergartners- Counting Leaps

March 16, 2014 By Deirdre

Leaping just seems like something we should all do in the spring. I recently put together a movement activity that explores the different types of leaps that animals make. I am calling it Animals That Leap or Counting Leaps. The Counting Leap activity involves more that just moving like each animal. Children are asked to predict how many of each type of leap they can do between two traffic cones. Then they are asked to find out how many leaps of each type that they actually did. The worksheets for Kindergartners Counting Leaps I created were fun and easy to use.

Here is how we played Counting Leaps:

Two traffic cones were spread out on our lawn. A table for recording the number of leaps estimated and completed was set up near by. A beanbag was tossed onto the worksheet displaying the different types of animals to determine which animal leap to try. We could have done them in the order they appeared on the Counting Animal Leaps Chart, but I wanted to give the kids some control of the activity.

Deciding just how to leap to make each animal leap unique was a challenge. Adding animal noises to a particular leap seemed to help at my house. Although it would be totally possible to leap silently if it helped remember the number of leaps being done.

We did this activity with the next door neighbors. I think having someone else to look at as they try to leap as a particular animal helped the next person in line figure out what they wanted to do. No one really tried to copy they other one, but if they had it would have been okay with me.

Finding out if they had gotten close to their estimate was almost as much fun as the actual leaping. We found that as they moved from one leap to the next that they got better at estimating. I also found that they started making their movements larger or smaller if it looked like they were not going to match or get close to there estimate. (They were very creative with their math.)

Indoors or Outside

We did this activity outside on a pretty spring day. It could totally have been moved into the house if the weather had turned wet and rainy. If you are a classroom teacher, this could totally be done in an open space in your classroom or the hallway.

Here is the link to the Counting Leaps worksheet:

Counting Leaps (This set has been updated. The animals featured on the page has changed.)

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Corn Maze- Math Activity

October 13, 2013 By Deirdre

$Corn Maze Numbers Math Activity$

We will be walking through a full-size corn maze when we go to the pumpkin patch until then we have small corn maze math activity in our backyard. It doesn’t have any dead ends or twists to it. It is a simple avenue of corn that we can walk through.

Our corn maze is simply construction paper husks of corn placed on stakes. (The stakes have been collected over time. Our lawn care company places them in our front yard along with a placard with their company name on them. We keep the stakes and pitch the placards.)

I placed a wide variety of numbers on the corn cobs. JDaniel is working on the numbers 1-100 at school this year. I picked numbers that are all over that range.

$Corn Maze Numbers Math Activity - Walking Through the Maze -Gathering Numbers$

The first time through the corn lane JDaniel had to simply read the number to me. If he could read me the number, then he could pick the corn husk and put it into his blue harvest basket. Some numbers gave him some trouble, but most were not difficult.

We then planted the corn husks back onto the stakes. I should have laminated them. The construction paper started to crease a little when we put the corn back on the stakes.

As we walked through the corn this time I asked JDaniel to tell me the numbers that came before and after each number on the corn. This took a little longer and required a little thought. Simply recalling the number had been much easier. This required visualizing the number and then the numbers that appear around it. Moving up to a new level in the higher levels of thinking was a good brain stretcher for him

The last time through the numbers I had JDaniel tell the number in the ones and ten places in each number. I think understanding what makes a number a number helps children bring meaning to the number. This wasn’t that difficult for him. I didn’t think it would be. The goal of was to help him start to build up the number sense compartment of his brain.When he learns expanded notation in school, knowing how many tens and ones a number has will be helpful.

After we explored the corn maze math activity a little more, we took it down and put in it the garage. I was pleasantly surprised that JDaniel asked if we could put it up again a few days later. This time he helped me set up the corn maze math activity and picked what math activities we would do. He got to be the teacher and I was the corn harvester. I just love having him teach me new things.Have you ever been through a corn maze?

Do You See Animals When You Hike?

June 18, 2013 By Deirdre

JDaniel pointed out to me while we were hiking in Tennessee over Spring Break that hiking is not just about hiking it is about checking out all that nature has on display. I learned during those hikes that he was going to ask me often while hiking the same question. “Do you see animals when you hike?” he must have asked me a dozen times.We have started hiking at state park not far from us called Paris Mountain this summer. JDaniel loves trudging for hours on the trails there looking for animals and taking in all the there is to see. This means a 30 minute hike can take 45 minutes or longer.Every few steps he had to stop and look around. The Lake Placid Trail seems to have the most wildlife on it. I kept count as we hiked along it one day. JDaniel found ten different animals. I confess that I walked past many of them and had to turn around to see what he had seen.

Do You See Animals When You Hike? We saw the following animals.

Tadpoles and Frogs
Lizards
Birds
Toads
Snakes
Ducks
Turtles
Dragonflies
Ants
Fish

We learned to both walk quietly so we didn’t scare the animals away. There were three groups of turtles we scared off of logs while one of us tried to talk to the other about them. Once they slipped back into the water, we heard frogs leaping for their lives too. Thankfully there were several more logs that we passed. We walked very quietly past them. The turtles didn’t seem to notice we were there and were able to continue sunbathing. It also allowed us to see several frogs.

I also learned from my animal discovering son that I needed to step carefully too. This toad was almost a smudge on the bottom of my sneaker. We sat on a near by rock and watched him hop around this rock and through some trees. It was fascinating to watch him. He just to hop aimlessly from one area to another.

Here are some viewing tips:

Look carefully long the water line.
Scan the edges of the trail to the left and right of you.
Look both high and low.
Get down low and peek into nooks and crevices.
Turn your head slowly to follow sounds you are hearing.
Stand in place for a few moments and let the animals with bad short term memories forget you are there.

Disclosure:

While during this hike he noticed a lot of animals, we headed back a week later with his cousin and he was more interested in keeping up with Kev than looking for animals. I think we will probably have more opportunities to see animals when we hike when it is just my husband, JDaniel and I.

Do you see animals when you hike?

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15 Tips for Hiking with Kids

April 9, 2013 By Deirdre

We spent part of our Spring Break staying in a cabin in Cloudland Canyon State Park with my family. There were several hiking trails right below our cabin. On Easter Sunday we explored two trails that lead to waterfalls. Both were beautiful. On our way back my sisters both commented that we hadn’t headed out for the hike well prepared. Each of them went over a list all the things that we needed to do right before we went hiking with kids again. I thought I would share their tips with you.Here are the 15 tips for hiking with kids that they shared with me:

Wear Correct Footwearearing sneakers or hiking boots is really important. Depending on the type of terrain you are hiking on traction to climb over and on rocks may be needed.Shoes that will clean up easily or become messy shoes permanently should be worn. There was a portion of each of the waterfall paths that was always really muddy and wet. I didn’t bring old shoes for JDaniel and had to carry him through those areas. My shoes ended up with mud caked in them. Not all of the mud has come out yet. I am still working on it.

Wear LayersWe hiked several different days that we were at the park. When we were in the sun, we peeled off our fleece jackets. When we hiked under a canopy of trees the temperature dropped a lot, we pulled the fleeces back on. It was so nice to have layers we could take off and on.

Bring Your Cell Phone If anything should happen and you need to call 911 or the ranger station, you will want to have a cell phone. A cell phone can be a great way to stay in touch with other members of your hiking party. Some hikers may move faster than others. If you become separated, you can call them to see where they are.If you don’t wear a watch, you can check a cell phone for the time too. I always seem to loose track of time while hiking.

Bring a Camera

There are wonderful bonding moments and beautiful views of nature that you are going to want to capture.

Bring Snacks and Water

You use a lot of energy when hiking bringing a water bottle and some power snacks like nuts, dried fruit or granola bars. Snack can also be a motivator to get children to go a little further on the path. JDaniel was encouraged to hike until we reached a flat area where we could sit together.

Bring a First Aid Kit

Hopefully you will only need a couple of bandages and some ointment, but if you need more you will have it. My niece got a scrape on her hand that really bothered her. All my sister needed to do was cover the scrape and my niece was able to continue hiking without having to look at it.Bring a Hat and Sun Screen

I totally forgot to bring these. Thankfully my sisters remembered to. Some of us have children are very fair skinned and burn easily. Hats also helped the kids stay warm in the cold areas of the path.Bring Bug Spray

We were fortunate to avoid bug season. When we have been to visit the woods before, the bugs loved JDaniel. Applying bug spray before hiking and during the hike if necessary really helps keep children bug bite free.Bring a Map of the Trail

We really tried to follow the yellow diamonds that marked our trail, but we ended up walking past the uphill turn the path took once. My sister was able to pull out the map and see that the creek we ended up in front of wasn’t on the path. We turned around and found the correct path a few feet away.Look Where You Are Walking

On the steep or really rocky sections of hiking paths it is helpful to remind children to look at where their feet are going. It really helped our kids avoid having too many slips, trips, and falls.Bring a Flashlight

You don’t need to bring a big flashlight when you are hiking during the day. It is nice to have small light weight flashlight to shine into the knot holes of trees or under rock crevices. Sometimes you will find small creatures to observe or areas you want to point out.Look for Fun Things to View

One of my sisters found this wonderful pumpkin knot on a tree. We were all fascinated by it. The fact that it had a stem along with the body of the pumpkin is so cool.

JDaniel loved coming across ferns, moss and other plants on the path. We had read a couple of books on them before we went on our trip. It was wonderful to have him get to see them first hand and to discuss them.We also talked about the waterfall and the water seeping through the rocks on the path. Again it was wonderful to talk and learn more about water with live models to observe.

Remember Little People Walk More Slowly

Not all young children walk slowly, but some do. JDaniel was the youngest of the cousins that were on the hike. The others ranged from 12 to 7. His legs were way shorter than the older kids and while he tried to keep up sometimes he just couldn’t. We were fortunate to have three adults on the hike. I stayed back with the slower one or ones. One of my sisters kept up with the leaders.Assign or Pick Hiking Buddies

My sister and I each tried to stay with the kids. We did assign or had them pick hiking buddies. JDaniel got tired of holding my hand or staying super close to me. Having a cousin or aunt that was a buddy made him very happy. The other kids seemed to enjoy it too. Hiking with kids means giving the kids a chance to hike with a buddy.Reaching the End of the Trail Isn’t The Goal

By the end of each hike JDaniel and I were the only members of our family left on the trail. The others had long since returned to the cabin. I asked him if he minded being the caboose. He gave me the most awesome answer. He said that hiking was supposed to be about enjoying nature and not rushing past it.That is really what it is all about for me too. Stopping to see a slug or centipede on the path. Enjoying just walking together. Setting our own pace so we can enjoy the hike. Those things are really what hiking with kids is all about.

Here are some more outdoor activities and ideas for kids:

Do You See Animals When You Hike?Measuring Chalk DrawingsThese are just 15 tips for hiking with kids. I bet you have a lot more. Please feel free to leave your hiking with kids tips in the comment section. I would for other readers to get to see them.

Creating a Tide Pool at the Beach

September 28, 2012 By Deirdre

The book I want to share with you this week Life in a Tide Pool by Allan Fowler. JDaniel loves reading about animal life and I thought it would be wonderful to find an easy reader on beach life for us to look over together.

When we were at the beach we built our own tide pool.

We had to start by digging a big hole in a flat part of the beach. Actually I started digging a hole on an incline and it wasn’t working. My husband suggested that we move to a different part of the beach.

We dug deeper and wider until the whole was big enough to line with an plastic tablecloth. The tablecloth was folded in half after we had finished the project we decided that we should have unfolded it to have a larger areas outside of the hole to cover with sand.With the tablecloth folded in half the tablecloth started to pull inwards as we added water to the tide pool.

When you decide to build a tide pool you really need to bring the big sand buckets down from your hotel room. We tried using a small turtle watering can and a sandcastle making container, but it was taking forever to fill the tide pool up.

Just a few feet away from us was a family building sandcastles with many buckets. I went over and asked them if we could borrow one for a few minutes. Thankfully they said that we could. It made filling the tide pool up much easier.

The water was very shallow that morning so I had to take the bucket out a distance to fill it.

Once the tide pool was filled with enough water, JDaniel decided that we needed to add shells and sand to it. The beauty of a tide pool with a liner is that the water doesn’t get absorbed back into the sand the way a regular sand hole does.

When the sand and shells had been added, JDaniel announced that the tide pool needed a creature in it. Guess what creature it needed? Apparently this tide pool is the home of a human being in a bug repellent hat and a green wrist band.

If you like this tide pool activity, here are some more water activities for kids.

Ice Cream Game with Ice and Shaving Cream

How to Create an Exciting Water Discovery Table

15 Awesome Preschool Activities with Water

Fun Things For Kids To Do- Building A Summer Bucket List

May 31, 2012 By Deirdre

For many of us school is out for the summer and the long summer vacation is looming before us. If school isn’t out for you yet, your time is coming soon. You will be looking for fun things for you kids to do to fill those days at home.
Across the internet, people are posting their bucket list of summer ideas and activities they plan to do with their children. The lists contain wonderful things they plan to do with their children during the summer vacation.

I have never put a bucket list together for our summer, but decided that this year I really wanted to. While we were traveling last week, I asked JDaniel what he wanted to do during summer vacation and he didn’t have any idea what we should do.

My question was probably too broad for my four-year-old to wrap his brain around so, I decided to gather some resources to help us make our list. I also create a list of things that he could choose from. This seemed to make creating a bucket list much easier.

Here’s what I did to help gather resources and ideas for fun things to do for our bucket list:

Visit the library

While visiting the library can be a bucket list item on its own, we used the library as a place to gather ideas too.

There was information on the summer reading program and the special presentations offered this summer. We will be attending many of the events and definitely do the reading program.

Look for books about your children’s interest or hobbies that may contain bucket list ideas. Cookbooks, crafting books, science experiment guides and outdoor game books are all filled with great ideas.

Search for books you are interested in reading and that contain concepts you might want to create foods, crafts or activities based on.

Find a local parks listings and activities on the internet

Many parks offer special events during the summer. We have movie nights, train rides, and more offered at our local parks.

Breakfast and lunch picnics are great fun to plan at a park. We have several favorite parks, but have others we haven’t been to in awhile that would be great to visit.

Gather brochures for local farms and farmer’s markets. Both are wonderful places to explore and come up with bucket list ideas. You could search for new foods to try or local products to cook with.

Search your newspaper

Your local paper may list upcoming festivals, concerts, and events that are free or nearly free that you may want to go to

Search online for summer reading programs

I found a wonderful list of programs on My Frugal Adventures. Her post is called Free Summer Reading Programs.

Starting Our Bucket List

Once I had a few books and resources to look through, I sat down with JDaniel and asked him which of these ideas sounded good. Based on the ideas I was sharing he was able to come up with ideas of his own.

Once we had ideas flowing, I pulled out our planning document.

Creating the List

Our list is divided into three sections: At Home, Away from Home Any Day, and Away from Home Specific Day. I have seen lists that had categories for Home, Close to Home, Day Trips, and Overnight Ideas too. You can easily come up with a variety of heading for your list if none of these work for you.

The At Home section was divided into several sections. These sections were based on JDaniel’s interest, You may have sections on your list that fit your children’s specific interests too. Our sections were water, boxes, dirt, cooking, and crafts. I knew he would be able to come up with several ideas that fit into these areas without much effort. He had already come up with some when we first started brainstorming. We also added a section for Other. There are so many things we can do at home and some don’t really fit into the sections I had mentioned. Things like build a fort and experiment with simple machines can be home at home or elsewhere.

The Away from Home-Any Day section is where we placed our park visits, the children’s museum, a trip to the splash pad in Downtown Greenville, and activities at the pool that we could do. We also included play dates, a date to get ice cream, and local family visits JDaniel wanted to have here.

The Away from Home- Specific Day is where the library presentations, a trip to see my sister in Atlanta, and other activities that would need to be scheduled or attended on a special day.

How to use the bucket list

Now that we have our list done, for the most part, it has been placed in the fridge. It will be a great thing to go to when JDaniel says he is bored or we need something to do. I am going to treat it as a resource. We will do the things that we decided we want to and skip over the things that don’t seem as exciting now that they are on paper.

Now that we have our list done for the most part and we have placed it in the fridge. It will be a great thing to go to when JDaniel says he is bored or we need something to do. I am going to treat it as a resource. We will do the things that we decided we want to and skip over the things that don’t seem as exciting now that they are on paper.

By the end of the summer, we will probably have done many things on our bucket list and come up with great and fun things to do to make summer memories that we hadn’t thought of at the beginning of the summer.

I will be posting our completed list on Saturday along with a place for you to link up your list.

This post is linked to Alphabe Thursday.