The set up

It's finally over! School is out for the summer! Now we begin the real fun!

Over the past few days I have been preparing for this summer's activities. I took some prep time to make a board for organizing a week of activities at a time, for shopping and organizing ease. I also made cards with all the activities, and recipes with ingredients and instructions for each.

To make the board I simply reused a board we already had and would no longer be using. It was a clip board we turned into a dry erase after school task board. I made it so we could change it when needed so everything was easily removable. I removed the clear plastic and stickers. Painted some clothes pins and glued them to the board.

 

 

Next I printed and cut out the cards I had made for all the activities. I added in a few extra cards when making them to include activities for me to do while Gabee is at family member's homes. I also added an eighth pin at the bottom right corner for a weekly task of working toward a belt loop to for Cub Scouts.

 

 

After I cut out the cards I folded them and put them in an old formula tub I had saved. When Gabee got home from his last day of school I had him draw cards from the tub for the next seven days.

 

 

As he drew cards we clipped them to the board. I added the 'mom tasks' at the top of the clip board. It includes such things as 'Put the wallpaper border up in the nursery' and 'Organize craft table' along with other tasks I need to finish around the house for when Gabee is out of town. We then hung the board at his command center on his play room wall. This week's chosen activities are:  

 Nature Scavenger Hunt

Backyard Mini golf

Payday Candy Bars

 Build a Fort

 Nature Science Experiments

 Oobleck (or Blue Goo)

 Lightening Bugs

 

The Cub Scout Belt Loop we will be working on is the Science loop.

 



 

 

We can't start until Monday since Gabee will be visiting his father this weekend, so we are going to go shopping tomorrow and I will prepare Monday's activity this weekend. Stay tuned for more fun! This weekend I will try to get a downloadable version of the cards up for anyone that wants to join in the fun.