Thank YOU all for reading! I love blogging, finding, and coming up with fun things to do with our boys. I wanted to post some newspaper fun today but we’ll do that tomorrow. Today I wanted to share this super fun Virtual Summer Science Camp from Classic Play I posted it on Facebook but thought it deserved a post if you don’t follow on Facebook.
My boys first pick was the Play Dough Circuits
I LOVE playing with cardboard. We lived next to a man who worked for a company that made boxes or something but he’d always bring home these perfectly cut forts for his kids and we were jealous.
Give a kid a toy in a box for Christmas and what does he play with? The box! For whatever reason cardboard gets the imagination going. Don’t recycle it just yet – save it up for your boys to put to good use.
(the only bad thing about it is that it’s hard for kids to cut)
Lego minifigs need forts too! from What I Made
Sawdust and Paper Scraps shared a very smart DIY on their blog. It’s a Play and Store Toy mat where you can play in a city and then cinch up the mess when you’re done. You could build Lego skyscrapers and drive around town with your Matchbox cars or Thomas trains.
To go along with my secret stash we have some fun things that the boys like to do while waiting at a dinner table or airplane or wherever they need to sit still for a long period of time. One of those is making backgrounds for their Legos, plastic animals, Playmobils or whatever small toy they happen to have along at the time.
We like to be out of the house often and have since the boys were little. Short trips, long trips it doesn’ matter we just like to go! We also like to eat out. All that going and eating out still means lots of having to sit still, which for boys, is usually the complete opposite of what they want to do.
When they were younger I started keeping a secret stash of fun things to do when having to sit still. It’s changed a lot as they’ve gotten older. This is what my stash looks like right now
Why do the Europeans make all the good stuff?
We LOVE visiting museums. We are lucky to live in/nearby a large city that has tons to offer in the way of museums. Summer here is the perfect time to visit them because it is SO hot. We recently visited the Children’s Museum of Phoenix since we hadn’t been in a while. I wasn’t sure how the boys would like it since they were a bit younger when we came the last time. When we walked in and saw this
I don’t know about you all, but here in AZ we’ve already had a 118ºF day. We do have some scorching summers so if we’re playing outside (voluntarily) it involves water! Here are some fun activities we’ve found.
Yep, I am so going there. Fart, toot, cut the cheese, pass gas, breaking wind, flatulence, whatever you want to call it I have yet to meet a boy who doesn’t think it’s funny. Living in a house with 3 boys you quickly learn to find the humor in bodily functions. If you want to be the life of a boy party teach them this fun “trick”. My brother (ok maybe me too) did this when we were younger and the boys learned at a friends’ house from a neighbor.
Have you heard of Geocaching? It’s sort of like a treasure hunt. Someone hides a container of little “treasures” and logs it on the Geocaching site. You create a free account and choose a site close to you (or whever you want) and you’ll get the GPS coordinates for that site. The Geocaching app for iPhone (I think they have Android too) was pretty easy in folling the coordinates but you can use your smart phone with GPS, or GPS unit if you have one.
