Summer Fun List 2015

Every year I seem to out-do myself on our Summer Fun lists. This year I thought I would keep it simple.... yeah right!!! I ended up with 126 things!!! A lot of the items on this list though are geared toward my family and the Wichita area. There is actually a whole "other" list I have that is just special events we are planning on attending throughout the summer as well. I tried to incorporate discounts, websites, times, dates, and such that we are going hopefully be able to take advantage of so our fun can also be budget friendly :)

*Disclaimer- Not everything might get done on this list. In the past we haven't always gotten everything accomplished due to life happening. However, we still try our best to do as many as possible! Wish us luck!

Summer Fun List

Visit the Aviation museum

Have Camden spend part of a week with us

Ares’ 8^th Birthday!

Ares’ birthday party!

Pick Blackberries

Make homemade jelly

Visit the Art Museum (free on Saturdays)

Go to a Home Depot Kid Workshop (First Saturday of the month 9am- Noon)

Go to Lowe’s Build and Grow clinics (Saturdays at 10am)

Go to the YMCA water park

Take gymnastics

Go Camping

Visit the Lake

Attend River Fest

Watch a Fireworks Show

Visit the Great Plains Nature Center

Go Fishing with Grandpa

Have a sleepover at Grandma’s

Visit Exploration Place

Visit the Zoo (Visit the new rainforest)

Library Summer Reading Program

Barnes and Noble Reading Program

Go to the Drive in

Go to Picnic Theatre (Enjoy a live production along with pizza, a drink and a cookie for $7.50. Wichita Children’s Theatre and Dance Center is staging “Pinkalicious,” “Chicken Little” and “Pinocchio.” For 10 a.m. shows, only cookies are served, and the cost is $6. Information: http://wctdc.com.

Bradley Fair Summer Concert (Free, July 1^st @ 7:30pm, fireworks afterwards)

Ride the train @ OJ Watson Park

Visit a sprinkler park

Go to Final Fridays Art Walk with Kyle and Tuyet

Have a play date with Jude and Kyle Ann

Day trip to Abilene, KS (visit the Russell Stover’s Chocolate Factory and the Eisenhower Museum)

Bring treats to the police station and fire department

Visit Uncle Joe at Retirement Home

Visit Grammy Bette

Visit Papa

Visit Grammy and Granddad

Visit Grandma and Grandpa Martin

Have an adventure with Opa

Have a sleepover with Nana

Help Grandma Boots with her horses

Eat snow cones

Wash our car the old fashioned way

Outdoor Movie

Make sock puppets and have a puppet show

Go on a Treasure hunt

Go on a Scavenger hunt

Jedi Training Academy

Lego Day Camp

Hike in the Forest (Cottonwood Park)

Play Outside with Sidewalk Chalk 

Build a blanket fort

Have a lemonade stand

Go to the Farmer’s Market

Have a Picnic

Make GIANT bubbles

Bird Watching (borrow Opa’s binoculars)

Happy hour at Sonic

Write letters and mail them to Karen, Thomas, and Cami in Germany

Go Creeking

Water Balloon fight

Sponge bombs

Paint filled water balloon fight

Learn to spell names (Ceri and Brigid)

Start learning times tables (Ares)

Make a chore chart

Play with Playdoh

Paint with water

Go to a garage sale

Ballet class (Ceri)

Hip Hop class (Ares and Brigid)

Father’s Day!

Mommy’s Birthday!

Stearman’s Fly in and watch the biplanes take off

Have a Shaving Cream fight

Fly kites

Learn to do a handstand (Ares)

Princess tea party with Emma, Lily, Taby, Alyssa, Ceri and Brigid (and Maddie if she is in town)

Build a Sand Castle

Go to Vacation Bible School

Bike ride with Opa

Walk to Dairy Queen with Nana

Make paper airplanes

Feed Granddad’s ducks

Play at the park

Have a Family Game Night

Go swimming at Grandma and Grandpa’s pool

Visit the Lake Afton Observatory

Stargaze

Tie-Dye with Aunt Hayley

Catch frogs by the creek

Take a walk by the river and see the Water Walk Fountain Show

Visit the Keeper of the Plains

Go Troll Hunting

Play Hide and Seek

Have 3^rd Annual Back to School party with cousins

Make Slime

Make S’mores

Have a talent show

Have a pie eating contest

Make homemade ice cream

Have an Ice Cream Party with cousins

Make popsicles

Life size Candy Land Game

Boy Scout Day Camp (Ares)

Botanica ($3 Thursdays)

Cowtown (Tuesday time travelers: pre-registration a must. $4 per kid/adult)

Go to Jumpy Jump Land

Visit the Backyard Specialists (FREE family open house days on the fourth Saturday each month from 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Kids can enjoy snow cones while playing in the “backyard” on the swing sets, trampolines and basketball court! And weather permitting, they will have their inflatable up too.)

Play with the Puppies at Pet Land

Imagine that Toys Volcano Eruption ($10, Wednesday July 22^nd, MAKE RESERVATION 316-239-7483)

Write your own stories (Ares)

Have a family night at Uncle Darren and Uncle Matty’s house

See a Palace Movie ( July 1-2 is Indian in the Cupboard $2.50)

Have Breakfast at the Donut Whole or Hurts Donut for a family breakfast

Go to Ballet in the Park (Snow White, June 11-14)

Start a Nature Journal for all of our outdoor adventures (Ares)

Participate in activities at the Library

Catch Fireflies

Have a lazy day (stay in pjs, watch movies, place charades, shadow puppets, etc.)

Karaoke

Have Race Day with the cousins

Have a Science Experiments Day

Have the kids make a “menu” and make dinner (with help of course)

Ares has a slumber party with a friend

Ceri and Brigid have a slumber party with a friend

Freeze Tag

Have a family movie night