99 Things to do this summer

1.     Spend the day at the pool

2.    Go to the Movies

3.    Go to the Library

4.    Family movie night

5.    Camping

6.    Water fight in the yard

7.    Make your own recipe

8.    Watch Fireworks

9.    Paint outside

10. Glow water beads in the tub

11.  Make Playdough

12. Sleepover party

13. Ride the train

14. A day of cooking

15. Start sharing a room

16. Reading and cooking day

17. Go to the Zoo

18. Make a bird feeder

19. Make a marshmallow shooter

20.Paint with side walk chalk

21. Make mud pies

22.Play with ice

23.Go bowling

24.Day of Science

25.Do something nice for a stranger

26. Go fishing

27. Go to the Nature Center

28. Have a picnic

29. Go to the drive-in movies

30. Go roller skating

31. Get snow cones

32. Go miniature golfing

33. Go to the mall

34. Make ice cream

35. Have a party for no reason

36. Photo shoot

37. Write a letter to a family member

38.Write a letter to a friend in CA

39. One day NO TV

40. Build a fort

41. Plan a new playground

42. Mix our own drinks

43. Go to the dentist

44. Paint the bedroom

45.Organize the play room

46. Everyone tell a silly/scary story before bed

47.Write Daddy an e-mail

48.Have a cookout with our friends

49. Skype with someone

50. Send a postcard to our friends

51.  Experiment with eggs

52. Put on a play

53. Dance party

54. Go to the Lake

55. Family Canoe

56.  Teach Lilly to swim

57. Make up a song and sing for an audience

58. Buy a gift for someone else

59. Donate toys and clothes

60. Go to the farmers market

61.  Go to Sonic and eat in the car

62. Roast hot dogs on the fire

63. Collect bugs

64. Mini Olympics

65. Go to the Park

66. Make a slip and slide

67. Cook dinner on a fire

68. Have a tea party

69.Teach Lilly to use the potty

70. Give Penny a bath

71. Kaleigh learn how to ride a bike without training wheels

72. Go golfing

73. Play in the sink

74. Make our own candy

75. Paint in BIG shower

76. Write the entire Alphabet

77. Make a poster about Summer

78. Tie dye a shirt

79. Paint nails and toe nails

80. Fancy dinner (candles, fancy dishes, and nice dresses)

81. Get doughnuts for breakfast

82. Mixed up meals

83. Watermelon seed spitting contest

84.Picture scavenger hunt

85. Kaleigh learn to dive

86. Take a picture under water

87. Call and invite a friend over

88. Write a book

89. Draw pictures for the book

90. Look at the stars

91.  Make day time stars

92. Take Kaleigh to get her nails done

93. Follow an exercise video

94. Teach Kaleigh to sew

95. Make a home movie

96. Make Coke Floats

97. Have a daddy daughter date

98. Make a Cake for fun

99. Stay in our pajamas all day

Girls Evening

When husband travels I like to make one day a Girl's Night (really more of an afternoon bedtime sort thing). Maybe when they are a little older I will let it turn into a "night" time activity but for now they love it!

We started our evening with a fun water balloon fight. It was not as hot as I had hopped but the girls loved it. Lillian (almost 2 years old) began to get frustrated that the regular water balloons popped so easily so I found some regular balloons and filled them with water. They would not pop so she liked squeezing them and dropping them.

  Around six o'clock tummies got hungry so it was PIZZA time. Usually we make our own pizza dough but we had too much fun outside! Luckily I found some dairy-free dough in the freezer and we made our favorite pizza! Tomato sauce, goat cheese, turkey peperoni, and steak.

  While the pizza cooked we decided it was movie time. To make movie special I let the girls dress in any outfit they wanted. As Kaleigh is a princess she found a fancy church dress and her new headband! She then went into Lillian's closet and assisted her in outfit selection. The movie selected was Rio!

The pizza was enjoyed and devoured!
The evening ended with chocolate popcorn and a little bit of our cookie cake!

Things to do with moving boxes

Box car

When collecting boxes for our move across country we found some boxes that could not be used. These became fun "box cars". We used the small sample paints from painting the rooms in our house. It was a fun way to reuse what we had round the house. Once the painting was finished we added a paper plate for the steering wheel and the girls loved it!

Cave of lights

This box was HUGE!! After moving into our rental house my husband and I bought new bedroom furniture and this is one of the boxes. I got this idea from another blog which she called it a "cave of stars". My girls loved it and it had almost a calming effect on them.

What you need:
Box
Christmas lights
something to make holes in the box (we used a screw driver)

Introducing the singing of Kaleigh!!

This was an activity made out of desperation. It was a beautiful day so I wanted to take the girls outside but it was almost dinner time so we needed to stay home. For this activity I found another tall box from our bedroom furniture and let them paint all over it. They used their fingers, paint brushes, washcloth, apple, wheel, and grass to experiment with different textures. My oldest Kaleigh (3 1/2 years old) loved painting with the things she normally couldn't paint with, at first she would tell me I was silly and couldn't use that to paint (which only made me want to find more "silly" things).
After painting she found her dress up and we spent the rest of the day introducing each other and making up silly songs.