Summer Fun List ~ Make Homemade Lemonade

I have never actually made homemade lemonade myself, but have always wanted to so I thought this would be the perfect thing to add to our Summer Fun List.  Lemonade always makes me think about beautiful warm summer days playing outside and having a good time.

First we gathered all the supplies we would need:

6 lemons,  1/2 a cup of sugar and 1 cup of water

I also got out my little juicer and pink glass pitcher.

First, I made a simple syrup with 1/2 a cup of sugar and 1 cup of water.  This was a simple step and all I did was just melt the sugar into the water in a saucepan on the stove then let cool.

Then it was time for the girls to get to work!!

Emily and Juliette took turns juicing the lemons.  I cut them in half and they used their muscles to push it around on the little glass juicer.  They thought it was neat that the pits stayed in the top and the juice flowed to the bottom.

  In between of course they had to taste some lemons…they were nice and sour!!

Finally, we added the juice of the lemons, the simple syrup that I had made earlier, some ice and enough water to fill the pitcher, probably about 4 cups and the girls took turns stirring it.

Time for a taste….the girls loved it!!

Summer Fun List ~ Make S’mores

I LOVE S’mores, they remind me of camping when I was little.   Then all I wanted to do was set my marshmallow on fire, now getting a perfect golden marshmallow is my goal. 

When Emily and Juliette’s cousin came over, he actually brought over all the ingredients to make s’mores, including some really cool sticks for roasting the extra large marshmallows!  This was perfect because making S’mores was on our Summer Fun List!

Emily and Juliette are ready with their sticks and marshmallows

Let the roasting begin The fire was really hot and they stayed just long enough to take the picture and for my nephew’s marshmallow to catch on fire!But, the end result was a delicious and very messy treat.

Can you tell they LOVED them!!

Summer Fun List ~ Watch a Movie Outside

We added Watch a Movie Outside  to our summer fun list while we were writing it down together.  Uncle Scott has a huge blow up screen and projector so we were able to watch Max and Ruby Under the Stars on the big screen!

We invited some family and friends to enjoy some ice cream sundaes and then watch Max and Ruby Under the Stars!First we had to get it set up.  Daddy and Uncle Scott worked together to get it set up.

    Look how big it is next to our swing set!! While we were waiting for it to get dark we had ice cream cone sundaes. They enjoyed these very much.        Finally it was dark enough to begin the show.  All the kids loved seeing Max and Ruby at night outside on the big screen.

We can’t wait to do this again, it was a great time and a beautiful night!

Summer Fun List ~ Outdoor Oobleck

We are having so much fun completing the activities on our Summer Fun List.  I was watching my nephew and he read over our list and said he really wanted to do Outdoor Oobleck with us and that is just what we did.

I originally intended on filling a small baby pool with Oobleck, but I was really not sure how much cornstarch I would need to do that, I got five boxes and figured we could see how much that would make.  Once I got the boxes home I realized that we would need a smaller container for the Oobleck than I thought.   I was happy to find this under the bed storage bin in the shed which worked really well.   It probably could have used a few more boxes, but now we know for next time!

I dumped all 5 boxes into the bin and then added about 2 small buckets of water.  The recipe is 2 parts cornstarch to 1 part water.  We also added green food coloring which left all of our hands a lovely tinge of green :0)

Outdoor Oobleck Fun!!!

The kids wore their bathing suits so that they could play in the Oobleck and then rinse it off in the pool.  

I hope to do this again with a few more boxes of cornstarch since we discovered that Oobleck is very relaxing for adults to play with too!

Summer Fun List ~ Water Balloons

We were able to cross water balloons off of our Summer Fun List!!

The kids and grownups had so much fun getting wet and keeping cool on a warm summer day by tossing water balloons around.

   Daddy, Aunt Jennifer and Mommy filled up lots and lots of water balloons, with the help of the kids too.  We were actually able to fill their blue step 2 sink up to the top.

On the run with a full water balloon!

Emily and our neighbor tossed the balloons to each other waiting to see who it would soak.

My favorite picture from the day was Emily’s Cousin trying to break a water balloon over her head :0)

Our Summer Fun List ~ 2011

 

I came across the Summer Bucket List on Little Wonders’ Days and knew I had to join in on the fun and since today is officially the first day of Summer I knew I better get started!

I love the idea of having a list of  all the different activities that we want to do or try this summer. 

• Make S'mores
• Play Hopscotch
• Visit the Beach
• Sidewalk Chalk Paint
• Homemade Bubbles
• Outdoor Oobleck
• Make Homemade Ice Cream
• Dutch Wonderland
• Sesame Place
• Visit a New Playground
• Go for a Walk
• Water Balloons
• Play Miniature Golf
• Go Blue Berry Picking
• The Aquarium
• Go to a Long Island Duck’s Baseball Game
• Play in the Bounce House
• Visit the Hands on House
• Make Homemade Lemonade
• Go to the Pool
• Catch Fireflies
• Make Chocolate Covered Frozen Bananas
• Spray Bottle Painting Outside
• Visit the Please Touch Museum
• Play our Board Game Outside
• Have a Picnic
• Build a Sand Castle
• Go for a Bike Ride
• East from our Garden
• Making Smoothies
• Ice Painting
• Splatter Painting

I am sure there will be lots more to add, but right now I am really excited for all of the summer fun to come!