{"id":2771,"date":"2021-06-30T12:59:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T12:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/s37407.p1377.sites.pressdns.com\/resources\/en-gb\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2021-06-30T12:59:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T12:59:01","slug":"10-family-activities-to-make-summer-memorable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/10-family-activities-to-make-summer-memorable\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Family Activities to Make Summer Memorable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy summer, everyone! Can you feel the heat? Nope, not the sun&rsquo;s heat blasting on you for 12 hours a day. But the heat of coming up with activities for kids who aren&rsquo;t a part of a summer group or away on holiday. Kids who want fun activities to do all day long.<br>&nbsp;<br>Am I the only one who aims to make each summer better (or at least just as good) as the last? I always think of the kids standing up on the first day of school, reporting on their summer. What did you do? &ldquo;I watched TV,&rdquo; I fear they&rsquo;ll say (since it is a highlight!). Or even worse &ndash; the dreaded &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know.&rdquo;<br>&nbsp;<br>My answer is to create a few memorable activities during school break. And we&rsquo;ll do them on weekends, or have our nanny initiate with kids &ndash; and their friends during playdates.<br>&nbsp;<br>The following is a list of fun, <em>memorable<\/em> summer activities. Whether they&rsquo;re hosted by you or your <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.care.com\/nannies\" title=\"nanny\">nanny<\/a>, the beneficiaries will still be the <em>little<\/em> ones who matter.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><ul><li><strong>Picnic at the park.<\/strong> Take your average lunch and spruce up the location. Bring kites and a ball and lunch turns into a half-day activity.<\/li><li><strong>Sit by a stream.<\/strong> Find a small serene body of water where you can stand on the banks and explore surrounding nature and plant-life. Take sketch pads or water-themed books (<em>Where the River Begins<\/em>, <em>Undersea Animals<\/em>, <em>Trout Are Made of Trees<\/em>) to learn about and draw what you see.<\/li><li><strong>Make summer crafts.<\/strong> Everyone needs to plan for indoor &ldquo;down-time.&rdquo; Whether it&rsquo;s a rainy day, too hot to go outside, or you just need a break, here are <a href=\"\/articles\/everyday\/60-ways-get-kids-crafting-summer\/\">60 Ways to Get Your Kids Crafting this Summer<\/a>.<\/li><li><strong>Be photographers for the day.<\/strong> Get disposable cameras or old digital ones and take the kids on a photo journaling journey. Their job? Finding beautiful moments in an average day. Print them out and create books, letting them caption each one.<\/li><li><strong>Create a summer-focused scavenger hunt.<\/strong> Make a list of summer spotted items such as: sprinklers, rose bushes, picnic baskets, beach blankets, kites, sunscreen, convertibles, butterflies, ice cream, popsicles, lemonade stand. Go out on an exploratory walk looking for each item (if kids can&rsquo;t read, print visual icons for them to spot). Make it even more challenging by putting the kids and their friends in teams.<\/li><li><strong>Make the biggest sandcastle possible.<\/strong> Each summer, challenge kids to make the tallest or most-fabulous castle possible &ndash; out of sand. Chronicle each year&rsquo;s growth in pictures.<\/li><li><strong>Make classic summer foods:<\/strong> S&rsquo;mores at lunch, homemade ice cream, fresh-fruit ice-lollies.<\/li><li><strong>Have a back garden &ldquo;Luau&rdquo; luncheon. <\/strong>Invite friends for pineapple and ham kabobs, lei-making, hula dancing, pineapple bowling and limbo under the tiki pole. Prep the week of by getting kids to help make grass skirts, palm trees and tiki poles.<\/li><li><strong>Throw water balloons. <\/strong>Just steer clear of hitting faces.<\/li><li><strong>Host an outdoor movie night.<\/strong> You can hire this out or create a makeshift version with a large sheet draped from trees, laptop, speakers and a projector. Invite kids to bring sleeping bags and beach chairs. You can provide the bug spray and popcorn.<\/li><p><\/p><\/ul><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>Need more activity inspiration? Check out these <a href=\"\/articles\/children\/101-summer-activities-kids\/\">101 Summer Activities for Kids.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy summer, everyone! Can you feel the heat? Nope, not the sun&rsquo;s heat blasting on you for 12 hours a day. But the heat of coming up with activities for kids who aren&rsquo;t a part of a summer group or away on holiday. Kids who want fun activities to do all day long.&nbsp;Am I the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/10-family-activities-to-make-summer-memorable\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1092,"featured_media":15762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"enable_toc":false,"care_reviewed_by":0,"care_post_updated_flag":false,"care_updated_date":"","last_update":"2021-06-30","view_count":209,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"member-type":[42],"vertical":[48,84,68],"platform":[2],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","member-type-all-en-gb","vertical-children-en-gb","vertical-child-care-advice-en-gb","vertical-holidays-seasons-en-gb","platform-resources"],"acf":[],"created":"2014-08-04","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1092"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"member-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-type?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"platform","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/platform?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}