Creative Play

Summer Bingo

I just looked at the calendar and realized that Cole has exactly 8 days of school left.  Oy.  I’m almost ready for our summer of fun and I’ll share some new stuff we’re going to be doing soon.  In the mean time I thought I’d revisit an old favorite.  We’ve played Summer Bingo for the […]

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Summer Bingo {Finished Album}

Last year when we played Summer Bingo I took pictures of Cole doing various items off his cards every week and had them printed as a 5×7 picture. I adhered the picture to the back of his weekly card and viola an adorable little album with all our summer fun!

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Encourage Kids to Write…

One of the things I’m including on each of Cole’s weekly Summer Bingo cards is for him to write a note to a friend or family member. About a month ago I ordered some notecards from Shutterfly. I keep them in the back of our summer binder and when he chooses that activity we pull […]

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For Lego Lovers…

You may recall from our Lego Birthday Party, that there are a bunch of Lego lovers in this house. I came across a great site called Lego Quest Kids where weekly challenges are posted and kids are encouraged to send in their creations. We haven’t participated in the challenges but I did go back through […]

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Organize Your Summer…

Last year I posted in depth about how I organized our summer binder. I created a summer binder again this year because I like the way it kept us on track and let me know exactly what free events were going on around town. In our binder I have a calendar for each month and […]

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