Hi Folks!
Summer is
here, #GRAZADEUS!!
Finalmente
sol, calor, biquíni, piscina, relax, praia .... e claro para a “alegria” das au
pairs :
- SUMMER BREAK!
O que summer
break significa para as kids: não ter de ir para a escola.
O que summer
break significa para as au pairs: Crianças O DIA TODO em casa, ou seja, como dizia
Maysa “meu mundo caiu”.
Ai você já começa
a pensar “mas o que vou fazer com estes LINDOS o dia todo em casa? ”
CALMA!
A seguir
teremos uma lista ENORME de várias atividades que podemos fazer com as kids.
(Sim em inglês
pois eu também sou au pair em summer break e não tenho tempo de traduzir).
Vamos lá:
- Make a photo journal or a family yearbook.
- Have a luau in the backyard.
- Visit the beach and collect shells.
- Visit a farmer's market.
- Have a picnic at a state park.
- Build a sandcastle.
- Write and illustrate your own book and have it published into an actual hardcover book using IlluStory.
- Have a backyard campfire...or just use the grill! Roast hot dogs on sticks, pop popcorn and finish off with s'mores.
- Make homemade pizza.Print out a list of children's books that have won Caldecott Medals. Visit the local library throughout the summer and try to read as manyas you can.
- Go for a walk and then make a collage from nature objects you find along the way.Take bread to a creek and feed the ducks.
- Have a water balloon fight.
- Practice your origami skills and make objects to hang from the ceiling.
- Go biking on a trail
- Plan a picnic at a local park -- or in your backyard.
- Set up a lemonade stand.
- Practice making interesting shadow puppets and then put on a show with your characters.
- Plant a garden of herbs and veggies.
- Make a sidewalk chalk mural.
- Have an outdoor painting party using huge canvases or cardboard.
- Take a free kid's workshop at stores like Lowe's, Home Depot or Pottery Barn.
- Plant a butterfly garden with flowers.
- Pretend to be pirates for a day -- dress up in costumes, plan a treasure hunt and talk like a pirate.
- Turn the backyard into a carnival -- set up a face painting area and games like ring toss.
- Make totem poles out of paper towel rolls and decorate them.
- Visit a museum you've never been to.
- Make a bird house out of Popsicle sticks.
- Learn about stargazing and identify as many constellations as possible -- see if there are any local astronomy groups for kids.
- Break out your baseball gloves and start a game.
- Make paper boats and race them in a kiddie pool using straws to propel them.
- Play mini-golf -- or set up a course in your driveway by laying different size containers on their sides.
- Get a map of the United States and mark off all the exciting places you want to visit -- create the ultimate road trip.
- Set up a net and play badminton and volleyball.
- Visit a fire station.
- Collect rocks and paint them to use as paperweights
- Go roller skating.
- Visit a zoo or aquarium to learn about animals.
- Run through the sprinklers.
- Blend your own smoothie.
- Set up a bike wash and raise money for a local charity.
- Let kids paint the sidewalk or patio with plain old water and sponge brushes. When their creation dries, they can begin again.
- Assemble a family cookbook with all your favorite recipes.
- Go horseback riding.
- Catch fireflies in a jar (and let them go at the end of the night).
- Stage your own Summer Olympics with races, hurdles and relays.
- Create an indoor circus -- kids can pretend to be animals and dress up as clowns.
- Decorate bikes and have a neighborhood Fourth of July parade.
- Make Mexican paper flowers using different colored tissue paper.
- Go to a flea market.
- Volunteer at an animal adoption organization.
- Visit a retirement home and read stories to residents.
- Have a game night with charades, Pictionary and bingo.
- Pick a nearby town to visit for the day.
- Visit a national park.
- Get a map of your area, mark off all the local parks -- then visit them, take pictures and vote for your favorite.
- Take in a fireworks exhibit.
- Make crafts with recyclable items like stickers using old photos, magazines and repositionable glue.
- Make your own hard-to-pop bubbles with 1 cup of distilled water, 2 tablespoons of Dawn dish soap and 1 tablespoon of glycerin.
- Create three dimensional buildings using toothpicks and mini-marshmallows
- Create unusual s'mores by experimenting with ingredients like cookies, bananas, flavored marshmallows and white chocolate.]
- Let kids paint each other with washable tempera paint, then wash it off in the sprinklers.
- Have a backyard camp-out.
- Take a boring brown paper bag and have kids brainstorm creative things to do with it - you'll be surprised at how many things you can come up with.
Lindos, espero que ajude!
Logo, logo as crianças estarão na escola novamente e ai ....
- ALEGRIA SEM FIM!
Boa sorte e vamos sobreviver! (eu acho haha),
Com amor,
Bruna Gonçalves.
- Taken from article, 95 fun things to do with kids this summer - May 16, 2014|By Ilene Jacobs.
