The Plan For This Summer

"I'm bored!"

As a Mom, is there any more annoying phrase to hear twenty times a day from each kid? I have four kids...

The way I combat the I'm bored summer blues is to plan ahead. After a long family brainstorming session we have made a list of 100 things that we would like to do as a family this year. I hope that we can get them all accomplished, but if we can't there is always next summer.

1. Start a family blog.
2. Have dad make us a logo for our family blog in Adobe Illustrator.
3. Go swimming every day.
4. Have a Yu-gi-oh! family tournament.
5. Write a script and act out a movie
6. Chose a summer theme song for each family member.
7. Visit the St. Louis Art Museum.
8. Visit Missouri History Museum.
9. Go camping.
10. Visit the St. Louis Zoo.
11. Visit the St. Louis Science Center and Planetarium.
12. Exercise daily as a family.
13. Go for a long bike ride or nature walk.
14. Go fishing.
15. Enroll in summer reading program at the public library.
16. Make sidewalk art with chalk.
17. Have a backyard campout with S'mores.
18. Have our own family photoshoot.
19. Have a movie marathon weekend--Star Wars
20. Have a movie marathon weekend--Super Heros
21. Have a movie marathon weekend--Harry Potter
22. Have a movie marathon weekend--Disney
23. Play Wizard Tag
24. Have a board game party.
25. Plan a half birthday for Madilyn and Jacey (slumber party)
26. Plan summer birthday party for Lexi (Theme: Alice in Wonderland)
27. Plan summer birthday party for Ryan
28. Go to a drive-in movie.
29. Visit the grandparents
30. Play restaurant and have kids serve the parents.
31. Watch a baseball game.
32. Have a graduation party for Mom!
33. Have our own version of Cup Cake Wars!
34. Bake a pie from scratch
35. Fly kites
36. Go to Old Settlers in mom's hometown.
37. Go to Festival of Little Hills in dad's hometown.
38. Go on a float trip in Steelville.
39. Go to Butterfly House
40. Brainstorm up a new annual family tradition. Family vote. Best idea wins.
41. Make a new board game
42. Make up a new kind of tag game.
43. Water gun/water balloon war!
44. Start a new family collection
45. Karaoke night
46. Lazy video game day--pajamas and combed hair optional...
47. Pick berries
48. Decorate T-shirts
49. Each one of us make a dish from a different country
50. Visit the recycling center
51. Play at a new park
52. Make play dough
53. Make homemade icecream
54. Watch the Frog Princess and go outside and catch fireflies.
55. Blow up a bottle of diet coke with mentos and then watch Wreck it Ralph
56. Teach Lexi how to drive
57. Have family spelling bee
58. Learn definition to new word and then drive someone crazy using it over and over
59. Play volleyball together as a family.
60. Play HORSE or basketball together as family
61. Wash the cars by hand
62. Make compost pile
63. Learn CPR together
64. Learn first aid
65. Go bowling
66. Go skating
67. Research the family tree
68. Do a family puzzle
69. Visit Hannibal, MO.
70. Go to Meremac Caverns
71. Transform an something with chalkboard paint.
72. Go to the beach
73. Build a sandcastle
74. Talk like a pirate all day. Arrrggh!
75. Take in a show at the Muny.
76. Learn a new dance
77. Make homemade root beer and then make root beer floats
78. Learn to play poker--using M&M's instead of chips
79. Do math worksheet and flashcards to be ready when school starts
80. Any topping ever imagined sundae/bananna split night
81. Homemade icecream sandwiches and popsicles
82. Make homemade lemonade
83. Go on a road trip to a different state
84. Go to Grant's farm/Petting zoo
85. Get up early and watch the sun come up in the east
86. Write a letter to someone you love and mail it
87. Fancy tea party with finger sandwiches and biscuts (cookies)
88. Go to water park like Raging Rivers
89. 3-legged race and pillow case relay races in backyard
90. Scavenger hunt
91. Riddle contest
92. Make candles
93. Visit St. Louis Children's Aquarium
94. Dip our own candles
95. Make soap
96. Go see an air show
97. Learn to make birthday cake pancakes and serve them for everyone's birthday this summer.
98. Grow home grown tomatoes and work in mom's garden.
99. Fly kites
100. Have a day watching old black and white movies.