The List!

After weeks of scouring the internet, weighing the reasonability and awesomeness of countless activities, I have finally compiled my list of 60 activities. I am excited, overwhelmed, nervous, and looking forward to this list. I see many a mess for many of the ideas, but I also think I will see many a smile! If you have done anything on my list, and have any feedback of dos and don'ts, please share! A lot of these I am flying blind on. I'll be sure to share how they go!
*Note: These are not in any particular order, except that the last six are trips, not just at-home activities
**Highlighted= Complete
**Strikeout= Cancelled

Summer of the Super 60

1. Glow sticks in the bathtub. 
2. Writing your ABC's in shaving cream. 
3. Backyard Campout
4. Fossil Digger. They have dino bones at the Dollar Tree. Bury them, and get your paint brushes ready to dust away dirt.
5. Oobleck
6. Balloon tennis. 
7. Puppet show. 
8. Make fruit loop necklaces! Before stringing them, you can also use to practice math games: patterns, classifying, ordering, adding, subtracting
9. Balloon Characters. Draw a face and then name them. (WARNING: your kids will be crushed if these ones pop, tears MAY BE SHED).
10. INDOOR Picnic. Make sure to use a NON favorite blanket ;)
11. “Just Dance”!
12. Make an obstacle coarse with crape paper streamers. 
13. Make popsicle stick puzzles. Storing a puzzle in a rubber band is brilliant enough I think. (using a photo is fun too)
14. Make GIANT bubbles. Poke a hole in the bottom of a paper cup, or cut off the bottom of a water bottle. Dip. Blow. Use homemade bubble solution too!
15. Color-Trace Leaves. If you haven't done this before...get to work.
16. Hand Print Art. Elephants, flowers, lions, reindeer, turkeys etc... it's endless.
17. Ice cube paint. Freeze water and food color in ice trays. Freeze with a toothpick or popsicle stick. Go outside if it's warm and enjoy some cold painting.
18. Homemade Lava Lamp
19. Mini Marshmallow construction. Give them toothpicks and you've got a good hour of down time.
20. Paint and Roll Marbles. 
21. Make cookies. 
22. Make a pinecone bird feeder. You'll enjoy the fruits of your labor all summer while bird watching
23. Scavenger Hunt
24. A picnic. A regular one. Nothing's better than a spot of shaded grass on a hot day.
25. Build a fort! 
26. Tear drop volcanoes. Put baking soda on a tray. Fill paper cups with vinegar and food color. Use a dropper to create fizzy foam!
27. Windsock Puppet
28. Exploding Sandwich Bags
29. Marshmallow Popper
30. Hot Car Crayons
31. Gak
32. Elephant Toothpaste   
33. Bubble Stamping
34. Berry Picking Berry season was a bust this year and no one is doing Upick anymore! We'll try again next April :( However, we will be making our own strawberry jam still this year. Yum, yum!
35. Fingerpainting
36. Grow an avocado tree from a pit
37. Mr. Shark, aquarium jello and watermelon shark
38. Make a fruit loop rainbow
39. Colored Salt Art
40. Mud Day!
41. Ice Block Excavation
42. Kid Carwash
43. Yarn ball
44. Exploding Soap
45. Treasure hunt and Quarter Chart
46. Ant Farm  Found out that you can not have ants shipped during the summer :( Will have to wait until the Fall.
47. Earth art and cupcakes
48. Ocean Bubble Art
49. Touch and Feel Book
50. Watermelon Slice Game and Watermelon Waffles
51. Bubble Room
52. Water play mat
53. Tape Painting
54. Sacramento Children’s Museum
55. Effie Yeaw Nature Center
56. ArtBeast
57. Rivercats Game
58. SF Giants Game
59. Star Eco Station
60. Beach Day