Category Archives: Summer Sanity

Free Summer Activities for Families

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Summer is such a fantastic time of year, and it’s nowhere near over! The birds are chirping, the sun is shining, and the bees are buzzing. Now is the perfect time to have some amazing summer fun with your family. Summer time fun can get expensive and put quite the dent in your wallet. With the costs associated with summer camps, theme parks and festivals, your wallet can end up getting quite the workout. Never fear, we’ve got some ideas for free summer activities that your family can enjoy together. The good news is that there are plenty of free … Continue reading →

How to Keep Your Child’s Mind ACTIVE This Summer

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Stem Camp

DISCLAIMER ~ This post is sponsored by STEM Camp. All opinions are my own. I only share content that excites me and I feel would be beneficial to Canadian Moms. Summer vacation is LONG! During this time, we want to plan fun activities and vacations for our children. As well as keeping them physically active. But, we also must keep their minds active! Whether you have your children at home, in daycare or at summer camp, ensure that they have equal opportunity to engage in a variety of activities. A healthy mix of fun, relaxation, physical activity and learning opportunities … Continue reading →

Summer Essentials for FUN in the Sun!

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Summer Essentials

Lately, our family has been talking about our plans for the summer. Many of our discussions have been about the summer essentials required for a fun summer day. The summer essentials from a kid’s point of view are different than those from an adult’s standpoint. While FUN is a priority, summer parenting is often jaded with sibling rivalry and creative ways to keep active with the kids’ educational skills. Due to the theme of this post, I asked my kids to share their opinions with you! My 12 year old daughter shares her thoughts on Summer Essentials for FUN in … Continue reading →

At the Cottage with Bugs

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Cottaging with Bugs

The cottage with bugs is inevitable, right? Not everyone is a fan of bugs, however and bugs don’t love all people equally either! Oh, those bugs….I’m all for equality! Spread the love, will you? My daughter is a prime example of this. Mosquitoes absolutely adore her! We always joke that she is super sweet and that is why the bugs love her so much. Those bug bites on the back of her legs are just the start of our cottage trip last summer! Aside from the bugs, I am a HUGE fan of going to the cottage. When I was … Continue reading →

How to Make Learning Fun This Summer

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Hot Wheels

During the summer, I always try to keep my boys learning. We focus on skills and work through some curriculum. However, I have to balance learning and fun, or I hear “Mom, you make summer boring”. I need to make learning fun this summer! While I will still be doing all of the curriculum and worksheets, there are many other ways to make learning fun this summer: Signing up for the Summer Reading Program through the Public Library. Each year they do a program that the kids get awards for the # of books they have read, and encourages them … Continue reading →

Outdoor Water Play This Summer

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Nerf water Fun

Yes, we are all starting to feel the wind down of summer starting, but there is still plenty of time to have outdoor water play! Outdoor water play is a popular summer time activity with kids! You don’t need to have a pool or even a sprinkler to enjoy outdoor water play on a hot summer day. This summer, my children have been playing with a Nerf Super Soaker and a Nerf Rebelle and they have had a blast! With the “no spraying people’s faces” and “only spray someone if they are consenting to participate in the outdoor water play” … Continue reading →

Summer Crafts for Kids #ArtsyPlay

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Summer Crafts for Kids

We chose a few linked up crafts from last week to share with you here today as we believe they would make fun activities for a rainy day. These summer craft ideas for kids really would be fun any time during the year! Summer Crafts for Kids Have you ever read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See by Eric Carle? It is one of my FAVOURITE books and children love it too as it reads REALLY well as a read aloud book due to the rhyming and rhythm of the text. On a rainy day, why not head … Continue reading →

Summer @PlasmaCar Fun {#GIVEAWAY}

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PlasmaCar

On the last day of school, my kids arrived home to a super fun surprise on our front porch… I had allocated some time before they got home to put the car together and I will say that I was VERY pleasantly surprised that it only took me about 15 minutes from start to finish. That includes opening the box, finding my rubber mallet and assembling the car. The PlasmaCar was VERY easy and SUPER fast to assemble and definitely MOMMY APPROVED! Now, I’ve always claimed to be honest on this blog, so today I will continue that, despite my … Continue reading →

TD Summer Reading Club for Kids #YMCKidsRead

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LITERACY IS SO IMPORTANT! This post is part of YummyMummyClub.ca’s support of the TD Summer Reading Club program and other TD Children’s Literacy initiatives. From the time I found out I was pregnant, one of the very first things that I made sure to do was to read to my babies! My husband and I chose one favourite book, Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney and we read it to my tummy almost every day. At the time, I was a Kindergarten teacher and children’s literacy was such a passion of mine (it still is!). We have … Continue reading →

Camp Memories Last a Lifetime! #MuskokaWoods2013

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It always takes me by surprise when March hits and parents start discussing what they are going to do with their children for the summer! But, let me tell you that I’ve learned the hard way in the past by not planning early because you end up missing out on some great opportunities. It is that time of year when parents need to start making summer plans for their children! Have you considered sending your children to camp this year?I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to go to camp as a kid a couple of times. I went … Continue reading →