Many parents dread summer, not because of the heat so much as having the children underfoot for three loooong months. In a humanitarian effort to help these struggling parents and children, I am providing three activities to keep your children out of your hair, out of the living room, and out of the police report.

1. To help children earn snow cone money, create a crayon melting pool. Charge each child 25 cents to record the exact time the crayons will melt when placed on a tin plate in the sun at noon. The one coming closest to the melting time, wins the pot. To make this activity last longer, put the crayons in the freezer the night before.

2. Get a calendar and list the date and time of every Vacation Bible School within a 50 mile radius. Create carpools with other desperate parents. If you are lucky you may find a VBS that meets from 7:30-12 and another one from 1-5 on the same day. The children will have the benefit of being able to quote every verse in the Bible and you would be able to formulate a coherent sentence.

3. And this one so rocks. When you have had an especially dry spell, tell the children you have discovered a secret Indian rain dance. Create some wild dance steps that stop just short of a visit to the chiropractor and teach it to the children. Put them in the back yard and have them dance all afternoon. If they begin to lose interest, take the water hose in the front yard and shoot a stream over the roof into the backyard. This will keep them going for another two hours.

If you are unable to come up with other such creative ideas to occupy your children over the summer, you might want to check out The Medicare Mom at http://themedicaremom.blogspot.com

 

 

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