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Yous'll never hear "I'one thousand bored" again! Here are 100 fabulous and fun activities for kids to do at home this summer! Whether yous have toddlers, preschoolers or five-10 year olds, you'll discover tons of like shooting fish in a barrel, cheap and creative ideas here for kids to do in the lawn (and in the firm on rainy days). BRING ON SUMMER!

Summer break, summer holidays, summertime holiday… call it what you will, for kids, there are no sweeter words. Equally a parent, while y'all may exist thrilled to have your child at dwelling house (and to be washed with packing lunches for a while), you also may exist waiting on pins and needles for those two dreaded words: I'm bored.

It's inevitable. It's gonna happen. Probably on day 2 of summertime break.

Don't worry. We've got you covered! I've put together a huge list of fantastic summertime crafts, activities and recipes that will go along your kids entertained and learning all summer long.

And I've put them all in a printable checklist for you to stick your fridge.

The list is a collection of the hooligans' favourite warm-weather activities. They're all easy to set, they're inexpensive, and can be done at home in your lawn, kitchen or craft room.

Your kids' all-time summer memories are waiting to be made in your own backyard.

Remember how magical and memorable the summer holidays were when we were kids?

We fabricated lemonade stands, put on plays, made mud-pies and daisy bondage, and set slap-up games of pretend-play that could last for days. And we did it all in our own backyards without spending a dime.

It's the same here in my daycare.  We do summer the expert-old-fashioned way, because in my opinion, simple, imaginative activities that teach and entertain the kids are much more fun and beneficial than sitting inside in front of a t.v. or iPad screen.

You don't have to spend money to provide astonishing activities for your kids:

If you know me, you know I operate my daycare on a shoe-string upkeep.

The crafts and activities that we do are inexpensive and ofttimes, cost-gratuitous because nosotros use things that we already accept around the house for our crafts, sensory bins, water activities and even for the play features in our backyard.

Keeping the kids entertained during summertime is easier than you recall.

Hither's the boredom busting strategy that I use every day:

I by and large set up one activity which the kids can come and go from all 24-hour interval long. It might be a water bin or a sensory bin or an outdoor fine art activity.

I've too rigged up some really cool play features (included in the list below) in our yard, like our bucket & rope contraption and our tight-rope, which captivate the children and encourage hours of imaginative play. The kids come and go from these freely too.

We also practise a arts and crafts every day, either on the deck or under the shade of a tree in the backyard.

Throw in a walk to the park, or through the forest or the neighbourhood and yous'll accept the recipe for a perfect summer day – every twenty-four hours! Your kids will exist so busy learning, experimenting and exploring that I tin almost guarantee they'll never complain of being bored.

Be sure to impress off the checklist for all of these activities! Y'all tin put it upwardly on your refrigerator, and piece of work your way through the list this summertime!

100 Fun Activities For Kids To Do At Home This Summer!

1. Make the all-time bootleg Behemothic bubbles with this easy homemade bubble solution. Peachy for all ages!
2. Make art in the sunshine with frozen, colourful pigment pops.
3. A bootleg water wall provides hours of fun and learning for preschoolers.
4. Make nature faces with goodies from the garden.
5. Ready upwards a backyard waterslide.
6. Set up a bath station for the dolls! It will keep toddlers and preschoolers decorated for hours!
7. Brand ribbon twirling sticks, and dance!
8. Set up upwards a bucket and rope "pulley" contraption. And so dandy for gross motor development!
9. Make salubrious bootleg creamsicles with just 2 ingredients! They gustation like existent creamsicles!
10. Make God's Eye ornaments. A classic kids' craft for v-x year olds.
11. Make marbled newspaper and turn it into wrapping newspaper or greeting cards.
12. Make garden "soup". This is such a fun sensory/h2o play activity for toddlers and preschoolers.
13. Dig for frozen treasures with this DIY Ice Age activity bin. It will keep kids busy for a good long time.
14. Paint the driveway with this like shooting fish in a barrel 3-Ingredient sidewalk pigment.
15. Make tin-can stilts. Recollect this classic from your ain childhood?
16. Set up an crawly "car wash" activity with shaving foam and water and hot wheels cars.
17. A batch of 2-ingredient cloud dough keeps forever, and volition go on kids entertained for ages.
18. Yous can colour your cloud dough to make it fifty-fifty more exciting.
19. Concoct a batch of Fairy Soup to keep with some mud pies.
20. Make art with Moisture sidewalk chalk.
21. Hang a doll clothes line in the g and wash the doll's laundry.
22. Make musical instruments for a "marching band" walk around the neighbourhood!
23. Make a batch of ghost mud with toilet paper, lather and water. It'due south an amazing sensory experience!
24. Make melted art with crayons and sunshine.
25. Pigment shaving cream clouds on a mirror.
26. Make one-ingredient banana ice cream. It'due south so good and so healthy!
27. Brand some homemade bird feeders to hang in the g.
28. Prepare upwards a "mobile" mud-pit in your wheelbarrow for some contained muddy fun.
29. Brand beautiful garden ornaments to hang in the yard or to give every bit gifts.
30. Set up an ocean sensory bin like this,  this or this.
31. Agree a backyard pretend tea party with items found in nature.
32. Make window fine art on the sliding glass door with water and foam shapes.
33. Paint with water on the driveway, deck or patio! They never get tired of this!
34. Prepare upwardly a coloured water laboratory.
35. Make bootleg pizza in minutes with this quick and easy pizza dough recipe!
36. Round up some chip fabric, ribbon and buttons and make newspaper dolls.
37. Make good luck charms or worry dolls ( bang-up for kids who are broken-hearted).
38. Set up a dolly diaper station.  Preschoolers Dearest this one!
39. Concord a backyard art political party!
40. Brand fridge magnets.
41. Make a set of bottle babies.
42. Add some artificial flowers to your play expanse!  They provide hours of open up-ended fun.
43. Attach funnels and hoses to the debate and make a corn run.
44. Brand some wind chimes. (8 ideas here!)
45. Paint the sliding glass door with shaving foam.
46. Strengthen spreading and stacking skills with blocks and shaving cream.
47. Teach the kids how to braid with this like shooting fish in a barrel, homemade braiding board.
48. Play with coloured ice and h2o.
49. Set up a pretend java store.
50. Make binoculars and go on a nature hunt.
51. Set upwards a simple residuum beam in your outdoor play area.
52. Do a fun and piece of cake water displacement experiment.
53. Practice weaving.
54. Collect some stones, and make lots of absurd stuff with them.
55. Put on a magic show.
56. Examination all your markers and make paper towel fine art.
57. Plough rocks into crystallized paperweights.
58. Brand homemade butter.  This is SUCH a fun scientific discipline activity!
59. Create a nature collage from findings in the yard and garden.
60. Teach your kids how to weave on a cardboard loom or a round loom.
61. Add some ramps and fun accessories to your sand box!
62. Make bootleg watercolour disks for painting.
63. Make homemade liquid watercolours too!
64. Ready up a "h2o-works" activity bin.
65. Paint some rocks like this or this or similar this.
66. Make popsicle stick dolls.
67. Make pigment stick dolls.
68. Plow a cardboard box into a construction site pocket-size world.
69. Play with 2-Ingredient GOOP.
70. Prepare up a "cutting station" like this or this to strengthen scissor skills.
71. Make an bounding main in a bottle.
72.  Build ice sculptures (Yes!  Even in summertime!)
73. Arts and crafts with paper plates. (Tons of ideas hither!)
74. Gear up a lemonade stand! Here'due south a great recipe for old-fashioned, homemade lemonade.
75. Decorate some drinking glass jars to put flowers in or to hold pens and pencils.
76. Make a proper noun puzzle for your preschooler to practise spelling his name.
77. Do your kids like science? These simple science experiments are great for toddlers and preschoolers.
78. Grab a paper bag and make a princess tiara like this or an even easier tiara similar this.
79. Create a captivating dinosaur activity bin.
80. Make a bouquet of colourful newspaper towel roses.
81. Set upwards an activity on a mirrored surface.
82. Collect sticks and make these cool garden ornaments.
83. Grab an erstwhile camping jug and add "running water" to your backyard play area.
84. Let the kids play "mad scientist" mixing colours and making perfume.
85. Set up up a muddy car wash.
86. Make a pool noodle abacus for your play area.
87. Wash the toys. This is great to exercise every couple of months to get rid of germs.
88. Ready up a stryrofoam construction station. And so fun for preschoolers to develop their engineering skills.
89. Fill up a container with water and hold a Polly Pocket puddle party.
90. Finger paint with shaving cream on an quondam, outdoor table.
91. Brand Mud Pies only like we used to when we were kids.
92. 5-10 yr olds will adore this unproblematic paper plate self-portrait arts and crafts.
93. Brand a tight-rope for your backyard play infinite. Information technology will be the well-nigh popular play feature in your yard!
94. Make coffee tin can ice foam.
95. Try squirt painting with h2o-guns.
96. Make cereal box cocky-portraits.
97. Teach them about chemistry with these 3 easy chemic reaction experiments.
98. Hold an outdoor scavenger hunt. (free printables)
99. Set up upwardly a backyard obstacle course. And so bang-up for improving balance and gross-motor skills.
100. Tie Dye a tee-shirt with Sharpies.

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