Family Summer Activities

This is a going to be a 4 part blog going through the various seasons of the year.  I've received some feedback on finding some summertime activities for single mothers with children while on a budget (thanx, Heather).  So, I put a little research into this and found a list of things to do with your kids.  The most popular suggestion being camping although the thought of camping for me is a terrifying notion not having ac and electricity to plug in my curlers, I've also found a modified version of camping I can deal with.  Pitching a tent in the back yard seems like a solid plan "B".  Read some books, eat, nap, get a badmitton net, BBQ...etc.  I'm going to speed this up and give you an itemized list so here goes: go to the park, go bowling, have a sleep over, have a movie night, board game night, a family garage sale (teach the kids how to barter and sell and count (we all know there are too many toys in the closet taking up precious space)), use the community pool or lake, snorkel, do a treasure hunt, picnic, scrapebook, hike, bike ride, write a story together, fingerpaint, play hide and seek or freeze tag.  I was walking with my friend Jen a few weeks ago and we happened to walk through the local cemetery and I thought what a wonderful learning experience if a person could bone up on their local history or even research certain time periods and look at the dates on tombstone and tell the kids what happened during those time periods or even walk around and find the oldest tombstone there.  The city hall may be able to help you with this project too.  My apologies for missing a blog yesterday.  I'll try and make it up to you :)  Enjoy!