{"id":1503,"date":"2018-09-27T09:06:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.themespiral.com\/euphoria-pro\/?p=201"},"modified":"2023-01-29T11:45:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T19:45:58","slug":"summer-activities-to-keep-the-kids-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/summer-activities-to-keep-the-kids-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Activities to keep the kids busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What To Do this Summer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With summer fast approaching, it&#8217;s time to consider what activities you might want for your children.&nbsp; Camps, local programs, and other activities usually fill up several months in advance, so act now.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are many types of camps and activities:&nbsp; academic, art, sports, technology, adventure, tour &amp; travel, military, overnight, special needs, YMCA, local rec departments, scouting, faith-based, and home-grown.&nbsp; Since each local area will offer its own set of activities, we&#8217;ll offer below some ideas for home-grown summers.<\/p>\n<p>You can make your home into its own summer camp! Schedule a type of activity for three days each week, for example, such as:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arts &amp; Crafts Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are dozens and dozens of activities which you can search for on the internet (such as &#8220;kids home arts and crafts activities&#8221;), including<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Make tie-dye T-shirts<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Make puppets with paper bags and put on a puppet show<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Plant herbs in small paper cups<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Finger paint<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">With older children, write a simple script for a movie on one day and shoot it (with your phone) on another day (or summarize a favorite book&#8211;The Wizard of Oz, for instance)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">and so on<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Outside Activity Day<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">There are dozens and dozens of activities which you can search for on the internet (such as &#8220;kids outdoor activities&#8221;), including<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Sidewalk chalk paintings<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Water balloon baseball<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Body painting<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Running through the sprinklers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Nature scavenger hunt and collage of what they finda<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">and so on<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Field Trip Day<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Go to a local zoo\/petting zoo<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Go to a museum (prepare a scavenger hunt list first so that they have to visit and read about specific exhibits)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Go to a local children&#8217;s theater<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Go to a Dollar\/99 Cents store<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Go to a local park and make bubbles, play tag, play hide &amp; seek, have a picnic&#8230;.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">and so on<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Surprise Day<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Take a tour (contact your local city hall, college, high school, etc.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Have a sleep over *after the Covid virus has passed<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Make a special mean, including baking a desert<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Go to the movies<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">Children&#8217;s choice day<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\">and so on<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>Related links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/summer-activities-and-savory-french-toast\/\">Summer Activities and Savory French Toast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer activity kids tie dying shirts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[553,573],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-activity","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3434,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/3434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}