Clarksville Family Magazine – June Craft

This months craft that was published in Clarksville Family Magazine was all about summer vacation.  We aren’t going far from home this year.  I believe the popular term now a days is “Stay-cations” instead of vacations.

Well – to keep my kids from getting bored, or bugging us too much with “what are we going to do today”, I got them involved.  First we sat down and came up with every idea we could of what we wanted to do this summer.  We ended-up with a huge list, so we had to come up with a way to make it more organized so we’ll get it all done.

I came up with the idea of giving each week a theme. Such as: Water Week, Museum Week, Fairy Week and more. I was able to put almost all the ideas that we had come up with during the family meeting under one of these categories.

Then we made a memory book. On each double page, we wrote down the weekly theme (they don’t have to be in order, just put them in!)  For example – the kids had put the pool at Aunt Paige’s, the Water Park and the sprinkler – that became water week.  Animal Week includes visit the zoo, a local farm, going to Build A Bear and making a wild animal, and making animal masks.

We have already had MONSTER week (finished it Friday!) We saw Beauty and the Beast at the Roxy *and we put our tickets in our book; went to see Shrek 3 (tickets are glued in the book), made monster-sized cookies (took photos for the book) and we watch a family movie of “where the wild things are” (found a photo of the book online for the book).  We went to the zoo – and saw the crocodiles, tigers and anaconda.  All monsters.  You get the idea – make a list, find common ideas, assign themes, get creative with additional theme based ideas, then get out there.  The full article can be found in the Clarksville Family Magazine or on their website. 

What theme weeks do you think will be fun to try?  Here are a few more of our plans:

Water Week	Fairy Week	History Week
Go fishing	Make fairy wings	Clarksville Monuments
Run the sprinkler	Make fairy masks	Clarksville Driving Tour
Go to pool	Have a fairy party	Trail of Tears
Water Park	Make fairy houses	Nashville Monuments
Visit all Clarksville Water (river, fountains, creeks, etc)

Bubble Week	Museum Week	Animal Week
Make our own bubbles.	Visit the Customs House Museum	Go to the Zoo
Go to bubble room at Custom’s House Museum	Visit Ft. Campbell Museums	Visit a farm
Learn to blow bubbles with bubble gum	Visit the Adventure Science Museum	See Charlotte’s Web at The Children’s Theatre in Nashville
	TN State Museum	Make animal masks

Cooking Week	Have A Ball Week
Cook breakfast	Go bowling
Cook lunch	Play putt putt
Cook dinner	Play soccer
Cook desserts	Play tee ball

Have fun!!! Then come back here and share what you did! 

See you downtown – Cheers!