You can pack a lunch or some snacks and spend the day enjoying the beautiful weather. Take a stroll through any neighborhood and you will not only find great restaurants and cafes, but food trucks, ice cream parlors, and coffee shops. Most towns and cities offer a wide variety of events to enjoy depending on the season. Go pumpkin picking in the fall, or skiing in the winter. Check out local seasonal festivals or just go for a stroll and enjoy the crisp cool air.
Swimming is a great form of exercise and ranks high among the list of things to do when it's sunny. Swim laps or just relax in the calming water. You can also socialize and meet new people. You can also try others ways to have fun at a water park, such as water slides, wave pool and lazy rivers. You can grow your own flowers or a vegetable garden that you can enjoy later on in meals.
Gardening gets you moving and is a great way to relieve stress. Gardening is a beneficial hobby and is inexpensive and easy to do. Decide on a spot—a park, a beach, or your own backyard—and go. Pack a nice lunch and some snacks and invite some friends or family for some great socializing time. Adults can indulge in a nice bottle of wine to go along with the picnic, as well.
Everyone loves ice cream and ice pops. Go on a Service Scavenger Hunt. This works great as a team activity, or kids can complete throughout the week and share what happened next time you meet. Create gift bags for nursing home residents. Bible connections: the walls of Jericho, building the temple, the parable of the wise and foolish builders. Is building with sand out of the question? Check out kinetic sand before you answer! Bible connections: wandering in the desert, Psalm , the parable of the wise and foolish builders.
Anytime you want to teach about the importance of a good foundation or if you need a Bible connection to the Tower of Babel , the Spaghetti and Marshmallow Tower is your go-to for a hilarious and relatable object lesson. Bible connections: the Passover, the Last Supper. On Easter itself, enjoy traditional Hot Cross Buns. Bring the buns, and let kids decorate them with a cross. Kids will have a blast creating an edible Nativy scene at Christmastime.
Grow Something For a memorable lesson illustration that doubles as a take-home reminder, plant seeds in egg cartons or Dixie cups. Bible connections: the Parable of the Sower, Matthew Grow a crystal snowflake ornament to give away as a Christmas present.
Branch Out Spread out a world map puzzle and talk about Christians in other countries while you solve it. Sometimes hearing a story is the best way to learn. Ask parents and other church members to visit your class and tell a story from their childhood, or maybe an experience they had with God at a young age.
If you want, ask for stories that relate to your lesson theme. The McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas at Austin features an activity to help students in grades K-5 understand the objects they see in the night sky with this activity that features constellations.
Using the printable provided in the pdf file on the McDonald Observatory site or creating your own for the constellations of the zodiac, students will explore the night sky and understand why the constellations are not always visible or always in the same location in the sky.
Give one of the figures to each of 13 students. Choose two other students to represent the sun and the Earth. The student representing the Earth will walk around the sun in one revolution which you may want to remind students takes days.
Prepare a set of index cards featuring key solar system terms. Include terms such as meteorite, asteroid, asteroid belt, planet, dwarf planet, and all of the names of the planets in the solar system. Pass out one card to each student and instruct the students to hold their card on their forehead, with the term facing outward. No one should look at his or her own card! Next, invite students to mingle around the room and ask each other questions about themselves, such as, "Does anything orbit around me?
To demonstrate this, The Lunar and Planetary Institute highlights an activity that uses fruits and vegetables to illustrate the size of the sun and each of the eight planets to help children in grades comprehend the relative size of the planets and other objects that orbit the sun.
Use a giant pumpkin to represent the sun. Then, use fruits such as mangoes, oranges, cantaloupes, plums, limes, grape, and blueberries to represent each planet. Peas, beans, or grains of rice or pasta can be used to represent the smallest celestial bodies. To help young children learn the planets in their order from the sun, play Planet Toss. Label 8 buckets or similar containers with the names of each planet.
Mark off a circle for each player to stand in and label it the sun. Place the buckets in a line in order of their position from the sun. Because this game is for young children Pre-K through 1st grade do not worry about scaling the distance. The point is simple for children to learn the names of the planets in order. One at a time, let children take turns trying to toss a bean bag or ping pong ball into the buckets.
Have them start with the bucket labeled Mercury and move on to the next planet each time they successfully toss the object into a bucket. Planet Jumble is another activity to help young children in Pre-K and kindergarten learn the names of the planets in order. And if you have any ideas to add to our list, let us know.
These games are very interesting to play on beach. I will share this blog with my friends so whenever we will plan for outing, we can read your blog.
These ideas are great thanks. Totally creative and awesome! Bubbles floating toward the water great. A bubble gun or machine puts out a ton of bubbles. Also, golf balls? And relay races sound fun and practical. If parents remind kids not to run right past some poor person laying on a towel and getting a face fun of sand. I agree with some of the comments. The hole game is a little dangerous if you are trying to dig a hole as deep as you can.
As long as there is adult supervision, it should be fine. I dig holes at the beach everyday, and I am perfectly fine. I love your ideas! So cool! Me and my brother recommend some of these games! Thank you for sharing such wonderful information. Here are some additional beach games list for kids. There are some new games that I have not played till now and surely I will try these games in the future. I love to play cornhole game, washers game and a Disc golf game with my family and friends in my free time.
You can add these games to your blog as well. Good but maybe some games for older kids, because I am planning for Scouts and need some yr old games!! Not to be that person but in my opinion the first activity about digging is not really safe for children.
Because when they are digging they might get in their hole to get it deeper and the sand might collapse on them. Just putting that out there.
Watch your kids and everyone has fun. Obviously depending on the age of the child would easily determine the size of the hole. I love how low can you go and added a twist on it.
I call it home sweet home. There are challenges such as comfiest, lowest, and most spacious. I do not recommend digging a very deep hole though because my brother could not get out one time. Thanks tho! We love the wooden spoon game most but now have run out of categories to play with. Where did you come up with your categories and do you have any others to pass along? Thanks for your fun ideas! I was hoping I could see martial arts summer camp or a basketball camp.
I have 2 boys and these two is their favorite sports. But the activities on your list is pretty interesting. I think we need a family meeting and show this to our boys. Thank you, Susan, for a wonderful post.
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