summer fun jar

At the moment I am printing the various ideas I got from Pinterest and our very own play room that I have collected and will be putting into a jar, our Summer Fun Jar. When Laurel is asleep or much boredom abounds, we will draw from the jar and have at it!

• Play CandyLand
• Play the Thomas memory game
• Play the Airplane memory game
• Play UNO
• Play with beans (our sensory bin)
• Make cookies
• Make cupcakes
• Go to the airplane park
• Make play-doh
• Play with play-doh
• Fingerpaint
• Paint with cars (we love love love this)
• Paint with marbles
• Papertowel tube painting
• Practice our ABCs
• Make bird feeders (with toilet paper rolls, peanut butter, and bird seed)
• Swing! (we just go a backyard swing set ;-)
• Make towers with toothpicks and marshmallows
• Paint with Qtips
• Macaroni necklaces
• Macaroni paintings
• Take a bath with glow sticks
• Make volcanoes (using old play-doh, baking soda, and vinegar)
• Pick an animal and learn all about it
• Lava floor – don’t touch the floor to survive! (using pillows, blankets, etc., as "safe" zones)
• Draw on balloons
• Write letters to Grandmas
• Play with spray bottles outdoors
• Try on funny hats and take pictures
• Catch bugs in a jar in the backyard
• Footprints with paint
• Open junk mail (I read somewhere this is good for fine motor skills!)
• Sidewalk chalk on the driveway
• Cut a magazine with scissors
• Make paper plate rainbows (art project using crayons and cotton balls)
• Play paper plate tennis with a balloon
• Play “will it sink or will it float” ?
• Candy experiments – melt starbursts
• Candy creations – make houses or cars with candy and graham crackers
• Make a fort and read books
• Read books in the fire engine (this "pop up" play hut we have)
• Build towers with blocks – tall tall tall tall tall
• Go to the library
• Throw bean bags into boxes (or knock down cup towers)
• Play with stickers
• Play with the sticker books
• Make and throw water balloons
• Fly a kite
• Make ramps for cars to race
• ABC clank game – use a big jar and put the magnet letters in and clank around
• Food colored vinegar and baking soda in a cake pan
• Make a collage with magazine pictures
• Throw the Frisbee outside
• Soccer in the backyard
• Play hockey
• Play with the musical instruments
• Look at pictures on the computer
• Thomas puzzles
• Trace our hands, cut them out, and decorate
• Blow bubbles
• Play hide and seek
• Color hunt – pick and color and find stuff all around the house of that color
• Make “constellations” with star stickers on black paper and chalk
• Wash the car!
• Line matchbox cars up all over the house or make a parking lot
• Make a big long railroad
• Dance!
• Color in coloring books
• Pop bubblewrap

I'm pretty proud of my list. What would you add?