99 Days of Summer Fun With the Kids

While waiting for my doctor’s appointment the other day, I read that there are 99 days between Memorial Day and Labor Day.  99 days of summer fun for our family of six to enjoy. 

99 days of four kids who want to go four different places at the same time.  99 days of “Can we get ice cream from the ice cream truck?”.  99 days of sunblock, bug spray, calamine lotion, and very dirty feet.  99 days of “there’s nothing to do” or “nobody’s home” or “why can’t we go to the pool yet?” (at 7am). 

Panic started to set in.  Then, I realized that come Labor Day, I will be wishing we had done more together and gone here or done that.  So, the kids and I made a list of 50 (I bet you thought it was going to be 99) things we are going to do this summer.  What are you and your family going to do?

• Go rollerskating at Funway ( like Mom and Dad did as kids)
• Watch the sunset
• Play mini golf
• Make cupcakes from Hello Cupcake
• Camp in the backyard
• Listen to the birds sing in the morning
• Have a picnic
• Write a letter to great grandma
• Start writing a penpal in another country
• Camp at a real campsite
• Watermelon seed-spitting contest
• Paint
• Go to garage sales
• Have a tea party
• Have a lemonade stand
• Pick berries
• Press flowers
• Make pickles
• Have a treasure hunt
• Start a family website
• Go without TV for a week
• Try geocaching
• Share a huge ice cream sundae
• Make jelly
• Help a friend
• Go to Michigan
• Make a banana cream pie
• Go on the Naperville Riverwalk
• Go to Moser Tower Millennium Carillon
• Tie Dye
• Play Ghost in the Graveyard
• Go to Prairiefest
• Make chocolate covered strawberries
• Tell Ghost stories
• Swimming
• Make a music video
• Piano lessons from Dad
• Fly a kite
• Try to fry an egg on the driveway on a hot day
• Catch lightning bugs
• Have a taffy pull
• Phillips Park Zoo
• Visit a farm
• Jump in puddles
• Make homemade bread
• Go to a butterfly garden
• Go fishing
• Go to the Oswego Country Market
• Help a stranger
• Make homemade ice cream