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Home › Articles › Preschoolers › Summer Fun

Summer Fun

Fast and Frugal Activities to Entertain Your Preschooler

By Crystal Patriarche

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Little Gardener
Kids can help you in the garden easily by watering plants, helping get rid of weeds and spreading mulch. Kids can also paint and decorate flower boxes or signs for your flowerbeds or vegetable plants. With the seed packets, cardboard, glue and a stake, you can have the rows of your garden labeled in style. Waterproof the signs by covering them with tape.

Scavenger Hunt
Before you leave the house, write down a list of things that remind you of summer: a water hose, a lemonade stand, bumble bees, someone washing their car, a lawn chair, a lawn mower, etc. Take your preschoolers in a wagon around the neighborhood, and try to find as many things on the list as possible.

The Drive-in
They aren't as popular as they used to be, but kids who love movies will enjoy packing up the car with a cooler, pillows, blankets and lawn chairs to watch a movie and eat popcorn under the starry sky. It's much cheaper than going to a theater, especially when you pack your own snacks.

Indoor Fun
Sometimes it's just too hot to play outside. These fun and refreshing inside activities can help cool and quiet down your preschoolers.

Resort Vacation
Let your kids pretend they are on vacation at a fun resort. Bring in the paddle pool (minus the water!), and let them sit around it on towels or in sand chairs wearing their bathing suits. They can pretend they are at a resort pool, and you can be the waitress. Take their poolside drink and food orders. Bring them fun fruit smoothies

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