Most kids in my parts of the woods got out of school this week.
You know what that means.
Lazy days and fun-filled activities await.
To try and make things easier I thought I would come up with 30+ Summer Fun Ideas for you and your kiddos. Most of these are super simple and require very little materials. Hopefully this will help you entertain over the next few months.
Glow Cones from Giver’s Log
Paper Poppy Wall Art from Tonya Staab
Make Watermelon Pie from Make and Takes
Make Homemade Hot-Air Balloons from bloesem kids
Paper Towel Butterflies from Make It and Love It
Paint Bag Writing from Let’s Explore
Pop Bottle Sprinkler from WonderTime
Sidewalk Chalk Paint from Mom’s Crafty Space
From Family Fun:
Make Plant Pals
Make Tiny Bubbles
Make Easy Wall Pop Art
Make Discovery Bottles
Make Drawing Dough
From Martha
Make Sun-Print Cards
Make Fun Paper Animal Plates and then have a picnic
Make Paper Bag Animal Puppets and put on a show for the rest of the family
Make a Bottle Bank and give your kids some opportunities to earn and save money
Paint with Sweetened Condensed Milk from ECE Made Easy
Make Colored Pasta Beads and Make Jewelry from My Name is Snickerdoodle
Have a Kids Car Wash from Domestic Charm
Here are some kids craft ideas found here on Lil’ Luna:
Make a Lemonade Stand and sell lemonade to donate to a charity.
Make Tie Dye Kids Aprons and bake bread
Have a Dinosaur Day and make Dinosaur Ice Fossils
Make some DIY Lava Lamps
Make Homemade Gak
Play Candy Land and Make Candy Jewelry
Make Cookies and Deliver them to neighbors
Other Ideas:
Build a Fort, Pop Popcorn and watch a movie
Play Salon by doing hair and painting toe nails
Add water and bubbles to the trampoline and do Slip ‘n Slide
Do you have more ideas?? If so, leave a comment below and I will add it to the list!!
Here’s to one fun-filled summer!
ENJOY!








































All the 30 summer activities you have listed above are really fit to the kids. Definitely, kids will enjoy while doing some of the summer activities. Indeed, I can get a lot of tips here for that summer activities I am going to use for summer activities for kids that I am organizing.
Kate Max recently posted..Maxirex
So glad you like all the ideas! Hopefully they will help entertain the little ones this summer.
Thank you for sharing these wonderful activities for my son. I do not need to think more because I already had an idea from reading your post.
Donna Khan recently posted..Vigrx Oil
Pretty cool stuff. I loved those plant pal most. They made me chuckle

Claudia recently posted..Is offline marketing still relevant? 3
these are some really good summer activitys
Thank you so much, Faith! Glad you like them.
I have posted quite a few on my blog lately. I’m doing a series called “Summer Made Simple”. My favorite has been the i-spy hiking necklaces for my kids. Check them out! I LOVE your ideas and your blog by the way!
http://creativepreschoolresources.com/2012/06/07/summer-made-simple-hiking-necklaces/
Heather @ Creative Preschool Resources recently posted..Summer Made Simple: Edible Painting
Some really good ideas here! I especially like the watermelon pie and paper towel butterflies. I’m always looking for something to entertain my nephews and nieces when they visit in the summer. Some of the messier stuff we can do outside on the patio table, which is nice. Thanks for the post!
Laura recently posted..10 rainy day activities for kids
Grow a pet TickleMe Plant from seeds and watch how the leaves fold together and the branches fall down when Tickled.
http://www.ticklemeplant.com You can grow it in a plant kit or party favor
You won’t believe your eyes!
” All the kids in my school seem to be growing TickleMe Plants.”
What an amazing Round Up of FUN! Thank you so much for sharing, super happy to have found your great blog!
Jen
Jen @ Four Marrs & One Venus recently posted..Fresh Peach Pie
Need to be able to read the top of every page instead of having comments contact us etc covering up stuff we need to read to be able to know what to do to make or do the activities
Try painting with pudding for a summer activity