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These are a few of my favorite summer activities..............
I am a native Californian and I had a wonderful childhood. As I reflect, growing up for me was a blast as I was the youngest of seven. Simple things have not changed, neither have the simple resources.
Listed below are a few of my favorite summer things…
1. Playing in the mud (mud pies, (Yum!) mud bath, mud facial)
Resource: Dirt and Water (water hose)
2. Swimming every afternoon either from 12-2 or from 2-4.
Resource: Home pool or local public use pool
3. Making Tepee’s with our father’s ladders and old sheets or spreads.
Resource: Imagination, ladder, old spread or blanket
4. Playing with bugs and frogs everyday and carefully placing them back in their
environment at the end of the day.
Resource: love for bugs and frogs, home garden
5. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner were served on time.
Resource: Food in the kitchen
6. Buying ice-cream from the melodious sounding ice-cream truck every Friday, though
it came by everyday.
Resource: Savings from turning in glass bottles (You can turn in cans now)
7. Making stick people families, marble families, and ragdoll people; my brother would
take my man (husband) off to war and bring it back broken or chipped. When I would
cry, he would make or have my sisters make me new ones, or give me a shinny
new marble.
Resource: Older sibling to draw faces on my stick people or to make me ragdolls.
8. Running from the street sweepers in the evening (We were out later during summer)
Resource: Imagination and being fast on your feet
9. Hopscotch:
Resource: sidewalk, patio, chalk and an imaginary friend if alone. Fun for hours.
10. Hula Hoop
Resource: an inexpensive hoola hoop, fun, fun, fun!
11. Growing tomatoes…Wow!
Resource: a bit of earth, seed and watch it grow, running for you life when you see a
big fat tomato worm (you just know it’s a snake because worm are skinny. Ha!)
12. Summer School or Vacation Bible School
Resources: Just show up and learn (Did I mention that we walked everywhere)
13. Learning to cook (No one can make better cornbread than I)
Resources: Home kitchen and a desire to learn (Mandatory to learn to cook)
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Activities & Resources