Summer is hard. Not only is it hot the kids are out of school and it’s almost impossible to keep them entertained. In order to help you out we found this article with 10 different summer activities to try with your kids. We hope they have a blast and you can get some peace and quiet!

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Summer is a wonderful thing. The sun is shinning, the kids are out of school, and both you and your kids have a lot more free time. It???s all fun and games until your stir crazy kids start to drive you crazy. Kids get bored so easily and there???s nothing worse than having bored kids at home all day nagging you to do something fun. There are some fun and entertaining activities that you can easily set up for your kids to keep them occupied for hours. Some are inside activities and some are outside. Either way, your kids will have a blast as they do these 10 activities this summer.

Sponge Bullseye
Anything involving water during the summer is always fun and refreshing. A great way to play with water for a kid friendly game is to play ???darts??? with sponges and a large bullseye drawn in chalk. Draw the bullseye on your driveway in chalk and assign each circle with a point value. Then let the kids toss the wet sponges at the target. You can divide the kids up into teams or they can each compete on their own. If it ends up in a wet sponge fight, then even better. Let the kids get wet and have fun.

Portable Sandbox
Kids love playing in the sand, but going to the beach isn???t always an option. Also, building or buying your own sandbox can get expensive. The good news is that you can easily create your own portable sandbox for very low cost. All you need is a plastic storage box, sand, and sand toys. The kids can play in the sand box all day long and when they???re done, securely put the lid on top to ensure other animals and critters don???t get in.

Drip, Drip, Drench
This game is a fun new way to play ???Duck, Duck, Goose.??? Have your kids sit in a circle and take turns being ???it.??? The twist is that the person that???s ???it??? will take a wet sponge and as they go by each person they???ll drip a little water on each head until they drench a person who will then get up and try to catch them. It???ll keep the kids cooled off and they???ll be able to run around and enjoy time outside.

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In the summer kids get bored easily and they have the ability to lose knowledge they gained in the previous school year. In order to help you out with both problems we found this article on fun outdoor activities. We hope it helps!

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Summer break may be only about 10 weeks long, but during that time kids can forget a lot of what they spent the previous nine months working hard to learn. Recent studies have shown that kids can lose up to two months’ worth of reading and math skills over summer vacation — and that means teachers have to spend precious classroom time each fall bringing them up to speed. “Keeping children’s brains challenged throughout the summer is crucial,” says Craig Bach, vice president of education for Goddard Systems, Inc., franchisor of The Goddard School (goddardschool.com), a network of preschools focused on learning through play.

That makes sense, of course, but what parent wants spend time drilling her kids on math facts when there’s outdoor fun to be had? Well, good news: Summer vacation and learning aren’t mutually exclusive.

“Summer is a great time to awaken kids to the love of learning and help them discover that learning can be joyful — even if they think that school itself is not,” says Heather Staker, the author of Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools. “Some education reformers would do away with summer vacation. I take the opposite view: Summer is an important time for informal learning and discovery.”

The following activities are all expert-approved ways to stop the summer slide while having fun outdoors. Each one supports continued learning by creating opportunities for children to be creative, think critically to solve problems, count, read, or categorize or group things and ideas. Try one (or more!) today.

Try something new. “Talk to your children about a new experience they would like to try,” Bach suggests, such as sleeping outside in a tent or fort you make together, trying a new slide at the park, or learning how to do a somersault or cartwheel. “Summer is a wonderful opportunity for children to gain confidence and grow as individuals by trying new things outside of their comfort zones.”

Plan or join a community event planting trees, bushes, flowers, or a garden. “Use this opportunity to study and discuss all the benefits that plants provide for us,” says Staker. “Plan walks around areas in the city to identify the areas that are most in need of these benefits.”

Enrich outdoor adventures with a driving question. “A driving question is an overarching question that will initiate and focus discovery and learning,” Staker says. Examples of good driving questions include “How can we use a camera to persuade citizens to protect the wildlife around our city?” or “What is best route for a walking tour of our town?” Take the learning a step further by encouraging your kids to participate in developing the question, Staker adds. “Or ask kids to imagine they’re in charge of creating a campaign to get kids off devices and into the sunshine. Ask, ‘What parks and local outdoor attractions should we feature in the brochure?'”

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