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During the summer our homeschool schedule looks different from the regular school year. We don’t do all of our studies, but we do some of them. We also add in a bunch of fun activities on most days of the week to keep things fun and learn in a more “unconventional” way. Here is a look at some of the fun summer activities we will be doing this summer.

What Our Summer Schedule Will Look Like

I usually do certain activities on certain days during the summer. For example “What’s Cooking Wednesday” we would make something together. With me watching certain kids only a couple days a week I am switching things around each week, then everyone can enjoy all the different fun activities.

1 Day during the week we will

• Make something together in the kitchen.
• Do some type of arts or craft project.
• Find a fun activity off of my Summer Fun Pinterest board to do.
• Watch a movie together, relax for the day, or go on a field trip.
• Do some type of sensory activity.

On the weekends we will be doing the following:

• Every Saturday morning is spent at the local farmers market doing our weekly fresh produce shopping.
• Attending different festivals or events.
• Spending time with our family and friends.
• Plan nothing because we will need some time to just relax and enjoy doing nothing.

100 FUN Summer Activities For Kids

I am putting together a list of different ideas we will be using during the summer. I’m doing this so I can reference it throughout the summer, and so that other mom can find some great ideas too.

Summer Recipe Ideas

So for our summer recipes, I was pretty picky on which recipes I choose for this list. There are a couple reasons for this. #1 we have removed all sugar from our diet except Truvia or Xylitol sugar. That means any products with sugar in them is a big no-no for us. Did you know even ketchup has added sugar? It was a big change for us, and hard the first few weeks but we have been reaping the health benefits since.

Any of the recipes that have added sugar we will just be adding in our approved sugar, we can occasionally after a workout have raw honey too. So we may be substituted with that sometimes as well.

We also have almost removed all grains from our diet, with a few exceptions. #1 we eat sprouted bread occasionally as well as very occasionally eating flat outs or whole grain noodles. We have done this because grains turn into sugar in our bodies and we have removed sugars.

Any of the recipes that I have added that have bread we will be using sprouted grain bread (Ezekial) in place. There are a couple recipes that involve other “bread” food. For those, we will make our own, and use our gluten free flour we get from Costco that is also very occasionally used in our house.

• No Bake granola bar bites.

• Whipped Pineapple pops.

• Apple cookies. For these, we would add chocolate chips made with Xylitol.

• Fresh fruit pops.

• Butterfly quesadillas.

• Strawberry Creamsicles.

• Frozen blueberry bites.

• Sunshine pancakes.

• Impossibly easy and healthy banana ice cream.

• Zucchini Pizza Bites.

• Frozen Yogurt Fruit Bark.

• Strawberry creme muffins.

• Back Yard Bug Snacks.

• Watermelon Strawberry Smoothie.

• Pizza Rolls.

• Turkey Cucumber Roll Ups.

• Turkey and Cheese Crescent Rolls. We will make our own crescent rolls using gluten free flour to make these.

• Egg muffins.

• Frozen Rainbow Fruit Kebabs.

• Healthy Summer Lunch. We use sprouted bread that we eat occasionally, so we will be using that to make the butterfly sandwiches.

• Healthy Summer Palm Tree Snack.

• Roast Beef and Cheese Sandwiches.

• Homemade Fruit Rollups. We will either just use the fruit or a little Xylitol sugar.

• Healthy Fruit Dip (4 different recipes.) I will be adding a little bit of raw honey instead of maple syrup.

• Veggie Flatbread Pizzas.

 

25 Summer Arts and Craft Ideas

This list will be of 25 general arts and craft ideas, perfect for summer. The week before Father’s Day the kids will be working on making DIY gifts to give Dad’s as gifts. The week before 4th of July we will be choosing some of THESE great ideas to makes some patriotic craft ideas. I also shared a huge list of over 50 different summer arts and craft ideas that have some really great summer arts and craft ideas for kids.

• Summer Coloring Pages.

• Tissue Paper Flower Pot.

• DIY fidget spinner.

• Craft stick bracelets.

• Bird feeder using craft sticks.

• Toilet paper roll car craft.

• Make a flower garden using paper plates.

• Glitter sun catchers using lids.

• Summer lanterns using jars and tissue paper.
• Rainbow fish using ripped up crepe paper.

• Planting a rainbow craft using cupcake liners.

• Make tie-dye t-shirts, pillowcases, etc.

• Crystal stars using pipe cleaners.

• Tie-dye shoes using permanent markers and rubbing alcohol.

• Summer bookmarks for all of our summer reading.

• Make a sundial clock.

• Tin can wind chimes.

• Pool noodle sailboats.

• Make a nature mobile from a nature walk.

• Make DIY Paper spinners.

• Paint some seashells.

• Make your own bouncy balls.

• Puffy Paint ice cream cones.

• Bubble blower painting.

• Rock monster magnets.

25 Summer Sensory Ideas

We have so much fun with sensory play with the kids. We have done everything from colored frozen ice cubes to excavating toys from ice. Here is a great list of 25 different sensory ideas perfect for summer!!

• Make GIANT bubbles using THIS super simple bubble recipe.

• Excavate toys from ice using salt, little water bottles, hammers, and tees.

• Make your own play dough with summer scents THIS is our favorite playdough recipe. HERE we made summer playdough with blueberry cobbler, watermelon, and banana scents.

• Hang hula hoops from the trees to have the kids jump through.

• Summer sensory bins.

• Shark sensory bottle.

• Ice-eyes sensory play.

• Ocean Slime.

• DIY Sidewalk Chalk pops.

• Balloon Cup shooters.

• Round up the sheep with balloons and fly swatters.

• 5 Summer hula hoop games.

• Erupting rainbow sidewalk chalk.

• Bubble Snakes.

• 10 Super fun pool games.

• Trampoline games and fun ideas.

• Shoot ping pong balls with squirt guns, there is also over 20 other great summer games on this great post!

• Play balloon pinata.

• Make a backyard obstacle course, American Ninja Warrior Style.

• Fill your trampoline up with balloons.

• Soapy seafoam sensory play.

• Under the sea ocean slime.

• Frozen water beads.

• Colorful obleck sensory play.

• Add a marble run to the water table.

Summer Activities

There are SO many fun summer activities to do with kids. I have put together this list of 25 great summer activities to use, for me to make a fun summer schedule for the kids that will be here.

• DIY Ladder golf game using PVC Pipes.

• Glow in the dark ring toss using glow in the dark necklaces and bracelets.

• Shoot and splash backyard target practice.

• DIY Coke bottle outdoor bowling game.

• Easy paper shooter toys.

• Marble race kids game.

• Make your own DIY Slip and Slide.

• Backyard croquet game using pool noodles.

• Make a tarp throw game.

• Learn some new ways to play with a deck of cards.

• Squirt gun water races.

• Make different paper airplanes and see which ones fly the furthest.

• Sponge Toss water activity.

• Play marble bowling game.

• Exploding sidewalk chalk.

• Make your own water gun.

• Make a Nerf Play Zone.

• Play sponge bullseye.

• Make a pool noodle race track.

• Play sponge ball toss.

• Play water balloon parachute.

• Make a solar oven and make lunch in it.

• Make stick rafts to float in the pool.

• Choose a couple different STEAM projects to do.

• Painting with water using a paint brush.

• Make paper ninja stars.

These should be plenty of amazing summer kids activities to keep us busy for the whole summer! I’m sure we will make so many great memories this summer, and that the kids will have so much fun. There will also be plenty of pool time, spending time relaxing in our hammock or spider web swing and many other fun this we will be doing along with these fun summer activities. You can follow us over on Instagram to keep up with all the fun summer activities that we are doing.

More Fun Kids Summer Activities

Many of my ideas came from my Summer Fun Ideas for Kids Pinterest board. Head over and check it out for other great summer activities, be sure to follow me on Pinterest to see all the great ideas I share with my 60,000+ followers!

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