[blparent] summer activities

[jan wright]

Check out your fair grounds, sometimes they have activities before and
after your county fair.
We did 4h projects which were fun.
You can also have older children put together a kind of Newspaper. My
children always wondered what it would be like to:
1. own a studio,
2. own a horse and carriage company,
3. ??? etc
So, we called up people and did some interviews. One child was
responsible for asking the questions (collectively manufactured) and
one was responsible for taking a few pictures.
These were fun interviews for us.
sometimes public schools put on programs for children in the summer, also.
You can also do a bit of research about other countries and have a
themed day: (ever friday is international day) or something like that.
Expanding our horizons to visit an Amish store for example, give us a
lot of fun experiences: or going to a flea market or a cultural event,
or even visiting a new restaurant.
 If  your child develops a fettish for one activity start reading
stories on it also.

I love all of the suggestions that were mentioned so far.