Check out our list of ways your family can have some good ol' fashioned fun this summer!

• Backyard camping
• Blow bubbles
• Chase fireflies
• Create a maypole to dance around
• Create a neighborhood scavenger hunt checklist,
• Drive out to the country to watch the stars (During new moon or look up meteor shower nights)
• Feed your backyard animals (birdseed, nuts/corn for the squirrels)
• Four Square
• Grill out
• Have a campfire
  
• Hop scotch
• Host a lemonade stand
• Jump rope
• Lie on a blanket and name/talk about the clouds
• Make cookies for neighbors
• Make mud pies
• Make“potions” (find nature items to grind up with rocks, adding water, etc. in a bucket, and stirring with sticks)
• Outdoor “water-paint” (with paint brushes and water)
• Paint rocks and hide/seek with them
• Picnic in your yard
• Plant sunflowers
• Play after dark (Hide and seek, Ghosts in the graveyard, Lighthouse, Glow Sticks)
• Play red light- green light
• Play simon says
• Read outside
• Sidewalk chalk drawings
• Wash the car