Looking for daily summer activities for your families? Look no further! Find 93 activity ideas to keep your summer fun.
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Daily Summer Activities for Families
Three months with no school are ahead, and all of those empty days can seem overwhelming. There are so many hours, days, and months to fill. How do we provide our families with activities that:
don’t cost too much
don’t require a ton of preparation and materials
encourage continued learning
and are FUN!?
We’re here to help!
It’s possible to have a fun summer with your kids (and they might learn a little along the way)!
You’ll be able to focus on the following seven categories, one for each day of the week:
Tech-Free
Get Outside
Read Books
Play Together
Rest and Reflect
Explore
Enjoy Family
Summer Activity Ideas
Some ideas include:
- Go fishing together. Check to see if your local library has fishing poles available for check-out.
- Go for a walk. No bikes or scooters. Walk for 10 minutes or 30 minutes – just get out there and walk!
- Read Lenny the Lobster Can’t Stay for Dinner by Michael Buckley. It’s a super fun “You Decide” book!
- Plan a playdate! Invite friends over or plan to meet up at the park or another fun activity location.
- Encourage each child to write/draw about a time when somebody did something kind to him/her.
- Everybody sit together in the living room or outside and enjoy your library materials.
- Read a bedtime story together every day this week.
- Read Bear Moves by Ben Bailey Smith. Everyone should be up and dancing! Silly is good!
- Make a meal, dessert, craft, bouquet of flowers, or anything you can think of together to give to your neighbors.
- Everyone can write/draw three things they are thankful for today.
- Try a new recipe for dinner today! Make sure everyone participates in preparing the meal.
- Go to the library as a family. Stock up for tomorrow’s tech-free day.
- Visit a museum together.
- Play a board game together as a family.
More Daily Summer Activity Ideas
For more ideas, check out The Summer of Fun and Learning Daily Calendar.
The calendar includes 93 activities, split in 3 months of 31 days.
For school year activity ideas, try The Get Ready for Kindergarten Calendar!
