Before adding the fun strips |
The girls each pull out a strip of paper per day, one in the morning during our "morning project/activity" time, and one in the afternoon. I've tried a few different formats through the years and this is the system that works best for us. There are SO many ideas for various ways to create a summer fun/bucket list around the internet. I have seen a TON of great ideas on Pinterest and on many of the blogs I follow.
I'm also trying a new idea: Friday Family Fun Nights. I placed orange strips of paper with different family night themes on them in the jar. We will draw a slip on Mondays to determine the theme of our Friday Family Fun Night for the week. I will update with how this turns out!
A sampling of some ideas in our jar:
- Make root beer floats
- Choose a recipe out of a cookbook for dinner and help cook
- Make a sock puppet
- Build a blanket fort
- Find things that start with every letter of the alphabet
- Make a homemade instrument
- Bake cookies
- Play a board game
- Make a “just because” card for someone
- Paint “story rocks”
- Make a shadow puppet theater
- Have a water balloon fight
- Play hide-and-seek
- Empty the bathroom trash
- Sort a basket of laundry for mom
- Find a recipe from another country and make it
- Choose an animal and research it. Report 5 facts to mom + dad at dinner
Sorting Laundry |
Go create a Bucket List/Jar of your own! Don't forget to link up here:
I love your jar system! Great idea to add a slip for family fun nights. And I love how you slipped a few chores in there :). Oh, our "summer bucket list" is a list to do before summer kicks the bucket... We never finish it, but it sure is fun to try. Thanks for linking up to the party and sharing your fun ideas. Have a great summer!
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