Time to Play: Summer Bucket Lists & Summer Jars

We all know that the best learning happens through play.  This summer I want to be intentional about making time to PLAY!

Inspired by Jodi Michelle's summer jar project, last night's family fun activity was to brainstorm summer entertainment.  Everyone contributed some of their own wishes and dreams for the lazy days of summer to our list. 

Inspired by Little Wonders' Day, who turned her family's "summer bucket list" into an adorable subway art-ish gift, we grew our list with a few more ideas.

Wanting to put together a list like display that was functional {but still cute} we decided on a spin off of the bulletin board put together by The Stories of A to Z.

My final product:

As we complete each activity I hope to have the kids share a favorite moment or overall reaction that we can write inside the fold along with the date.  By the end of the summer we will have a memento of our attempt to make the most of Summer 2011
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{By the way…the idea to make super balls is inspired by a link in Show and Tell #59 from Making Memories with Your Kids.  AND you can find LOADS of fun sidewalk chalk recipes here!}

Now that school is officially out for summer we are ready to our Totally Summer To-Dos.

Still looking for other summer list ideas:
Rebecca also put together an adorable Summer Bucket list that is featured in the Sweet Shoppe gallery.

Junk in their Trunk framed their colorful summer fun list!

This might be an idea to file for next year, but I also love this summer checklist for teachers made by the kiddos at Sun Scholars!

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