1. Friday night at the movies: Rent your favorite or a new family movie and watch it with big bowls of popcorn! Does your movie come from a book? If so, check that book out of the Library for a week long family read.
- 1. Friday night at the movies: Rent your favorite or a new family movie and watch it with big bowls of popcorn! Does your movie come from a book? If so, check that book out of the Library for a week long family read.
- 2. Family Game night: Pair favorite family board games with ice cream. Parents Can Promote Children's Numerical Development with Board Games! http://www.examiner.com/x-2016-Parenting--Education-Examiner~y2009m6d7-Summer-games-are-an-inexpensive-effective-way-to-promote-childrens-learning
- 3. Nighttime hayride, spooky haunted house, or make a scarecrow, with a mug of warm apple cider and some ginger snaps. Scarecrow 101: Family Fun? http://www.examiner.com/x-2016-Parenting--Education-Examiner~y2009m9d27-Scarecrow-101-Family-Fun
- 4. Family photograph album or Journal: Start with Pizza dinner talking about what happen in the past week. Did anyone take a really good picture? Then after a nice family around the table dinner, add the events of the week to your family journal. Back to School 101: Can you and your child create a school journal? http://www.examiner.com/x-2016-Parenting--Education-Examiner~y2009m8d18-Back-to-School-101-Can-you-and-your-child-create-a-school-journal
- 5. Plan a family garden, browse through gardening catalogs, or gardening stores pick up some fall bulbs. Saturday morning you could have a pancake and planting family morning; maybe even in your pjs? Children and recycled flower gardens grow together even in a recession. http://www.examiner.com/x-2016-Parenting--Education-Examiner~y2009m4d9-Children-and-recycled-flower-gardens-grow-together-even-in-a-recession
- 6. Worm gardens: Saturday afternoon everyone in softest jeans and oldest sweatshirt and create a worm garden dont forget to make the worm pudding in the slide show. Keeping Kids Learning with Worm Gardens http://www.examiner.com/x-2016-Parenting--Education-Examiner~y2009m3d23-Keeping-Kids-Learning-with-Worm-Gardens
- 7. Family Card Night Learn a new card game remember to have snack in bowls around the card table. A deck of cards on summer vacation can help build number sense http://www.examiner.com/x-2016-Parenting--Education-Examiner~y2009m6d4-A-deck-of-cards-on-summer-vacation-can-help-build-number-sense
- 8. Explore the nearest National Wildlife Refuge with a picnic. Free to Families a National Wildlife Refuge amidst a Growing Arvada, Colorado http://www.examiner.com/x-2016-Parenting--Education-Examiner~y2009m6d13-Free-to-Families-a-National-Wildlife-Refuge-Amidst-a-Growing-Arvada-Colorado
- 9. Cookie baking and books! Share your princess and pirates favorite books while baking cookies Reading and Special Memories with Books http://www.examiner.com/x-2016-Parenting--Education-Examiner~y2009m3d27-Reading-and-Special-Memories-with-Books
- 10. Together, take a virtual tour of a museum or zoo. Smithsonian 101: A Virtual tour http://www.examiner.com/x-2016-Parenting--Education-Examiner~y2009m8d29-Smithsonian-101-A-Virtual-tour A virtual trip to the zoo for families http://www.examiner.com/x-2016-Parenting--Education-Examiner~y2009m7d13-A-virtual-trip-to-the-zoo-for-families
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