It is time for another felt giveaway!
This month I am giving away The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
This set comes with one adorable old lady and four flies, four spiders, four birds, two cats, two dogs, two cows and two horses. It also includes a copy of the Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly poem.
To enter the contest this month just leave a comment below. In your comment let us know about one of your favorite activities that you like to do with your children in the summer.
I will kick things off by share one activity that we do a lot. Making bubbles is always a huge hit for us in the summer. Not only do we make our own bubbles, but we have fun making our own different bubble blowers and testing them out.
The drawing for this contest will be June 13th, so get your entry in before then!
I love to walk the children to the park so they can experience nature and learn about traffic safety. At the park they can run, jump and play on the wonderful playground equipment. After a busy morning at the park they are all ready for lunch and naptime when we return home.
Great website and ideas. One of our favorite summertime activities is making playdough. The kids have fun measuring out all of the ingredients and then mixing them together. Then they have fun playing with the fresh playdough that they made.
We started two years ago having a Parker Family Camp. The grandkids really love it. We take a day and fill it with arts and crafts, snow cones, water games and always take pictures and make picture frames to take home to document the day. We also make t-shirts for all seven grandkids. One or two daughter-in-laws always help.
My kids LOVE to play with chalk. It’s one of their favorite things to do when it’s nice outside. We decorate our driveway with traced pictures of ourselves, flowers, suns, names. We practice writing letters, numbers words, everything. Then when ours is filled, we move across the street and decorate our favorite neighbor’s driveway (she’s 80) with pictures for her to enjoy!
Going to the library for the Summer reading program, cooking together in the kitchen learning to follow recipes, and taking day trips to points of interest around our area are my favorite Summer fun (yet learning) activities.
I love the Thursday Thinkers – thanks! As for the summer, my son is lucky to have a July 4th birthday so his b-day parties are full of summer fun. We set up a slide and/or plastic sheet on a hill and adults hold the hose so the kids have great fun sliding down the hill! Last year we held relay races outside – water-filled balloons were a hot weather hit, as well as racing to empty buckets of water using little drink cups! Later in the evening, after a watermelon break on the lawn – we always ride over to watch the fireworks. Other summer fun is to ride our bicycles everywhere, especially with a pit stop at an ice cream stand!
I love the hot days of summer! We like to go for nature walks where my sons can catch the frogs and study them! Of course we let them go after! Turtles are a favourite for my sons to find too! We always make sure that we have lots of sunscreen and bug lotion with us since the best places to walk are in local picnic areas that have water features, rivers or ponds!
These felt books are great. Since it gets really hot and humid down here in Florida, we like to spend most of our time at the pool. My daughter loves the water! She has also developed a great immagination using her toys and the pool noodle. (She pretends she is fishing for sharks, swimming dinosaurs, etc.) Last summer we took her to a free movie (the movie theaters have a list of free kid movies during the day-you will have to check your theater for times)–anyway we hope to take advantage of the moview this year.
Thank you for the great giveaways!
I like to participate in our church’s Vacation Bible Camp, and speak with our kids about how wonderfully they are created and how to become everything good that they were created to be. Many lives are changed forever and parents see a difference in their kids when Camp is over. Walking is love is awesome!
We turn our swing set into a water park. I set the sprinkler onto the swing set and the kids go down the slides, on the swings, etc in the water. It solved the problem of my son asking to go to a water park every day and cools everyone off.
The children and I go on weekend excursions. Day trips to the zoo with lots of playtime on our swing set in between. Summertime is our favorite time together as we love the outdoors!
Summertime we love to have picnics outside and set up the sprinklers to cool off. they love to try and catch butterflies with their butterfly nets too. my kids love the outdoors and can stay out and play till it’s time to go to bed.
We love going to the community pool and we will be signing up for the summer reading program at the library, which has lots of activities and prizes for the kids. We live near a river, so the whole family enjoys walking on the trail.
my oldest has also gotten into pressing flowers to make dresses for her paper dolls.
My daycare children (& my own) love to play with the water table…it gets used every day for hours…they fish in it, play with boats, use buckets, water the plants that are around the table…sometimes they clean their cars (cozy coupes)…we have a “car wash”. They have a blast!!
wow how cool this is my all time fave i just love the story i think its realy good one and well i love to win this for my little one who would get hr’s of play time out of it . thanks
We love to picnic at the Loch Raven Reservoir just north of Baltimore. It’s incredibly beautiful, never crowded, and teeming with wildlife. My daughter roams joyfully amongst the enormous trees, chasing birds and squirrels, laughing at the easily frazzled water-fowl and generally exhausting herself. We adults just like to sit back and enjoy. I can’t wait to bring our son there this summer to watch him toddle after butterflies!
I absolutely love spending time with my daughter in the summer going to see musicals. It’s often too hot to do outdoors things, but when it’s not, I love to take her to the park.
My kids and I enjoy lots of water play! We get out buckets of all sizes, shapes, including ice cream pails, washed plastic containers, etc. We also have clear hoses (tubing) and other fun items. We experiment with moving the water, mixing in food coloring, etc. It is really cool and then they cool off with splashing, pouring, and just getting really wet!
We play car wash and wash my daughter’s big wheels, wagon, her little toy cars, etc. We also use the hose and spray each other with it! She gets a kick out of spraying me!
i organised a summer camp for my son, ‘lets pretend’ this summer. did a lot of pretend play ranging from carpenter, gardener, bob the builder, artist, etc. did a lot of scrap booking, so wherever we went on day trips we’d come back and have a scrap book session. the pretend play fever and scrap booking has continued for the entire summer! he comes up with a new person to pretend to be eact day.
My favorite thing about summer is having the time to teach the children self-care skills that will help us all throughout the year. The kids have chores to earn money and carefully plan what they are saving for on shopping day. They help plan the menu for the week as well as help make the meals. We can use daily tasks to work on individual goals as well such as sorting, sequencing, and lots of math. Having lots of children and a busy teaching schedule (yes even some in the summer), it is very helpful to teach the children what is expected of them such as what a clean room looks like as well as the importance and satisfaction received from saving/ waiting to reach a goal. We also do the fun things of summer as well as visiting family (to show off our manners!). But these basic intensive self-care workshops will benefit my children throughout their life.
My family loves summer! We love the outdoors and all that it has to offer. One of our favorite activities is bubble play. We purchase bubble mixtures and make our own. It leads to lots of comparisons. The children have discovered a variety of ways to make their own bubble wands. We often have contests as to who can make the biggest, smallest, most and so on. We love to fill our neighborhood with beautiful bubbles!
In the summer my day care kids love to play with water. We use the hose and sprinkler to splash and run thru. They love for me to run the hose on the swing set so they can play with the water splashing on them. We have a “car wash” where we wash all the riding toys. We have this huge beach ball that has holes all over it, and you hook up a water hose to it and it rolls in all directions spraying out water. The kids love it! We do lots of outdoor activities and lots of water play. I would love to win this flannel board set for my day care kids. I think all of your sets are so neat.
The kids enjoy the summer reading program at the library, swimming in our pool, jumping on the trampoline, grilling in the backyard, and just being outside enjoying the nice weather.
We have tons of activities here in the backyard. Instead of joining expensive camps and such we use the money we would have spent on something for the backyard. This year we bought bug collection kits for the kids with the mini vacuum in it. We are a busy family so we try and get out of the house whenever possible to have family time outside playing. As soon as the weather is decent we are out all weekend. We are soon going to be planning playdates with local kids to keep them and us moms busy.
Nadine
We love to go to the water park at out local park. The water cools everyone off and my litle one gets to run around.
go swiming in the river behind our house
I like to do any and everything outside–reading a book to my little girl, watching the birds, looking for fireflys. There is so much to learned from mother nature and I look forward to teaching my kids how to love and respect our Earth.
What a great giveaway! I read this story and sing the song every year with my first grade students. I would love to win this set for my classroom:)
I love swimming with my children in the summer. That and camping are some of my favorite pastimes.
THANKS! I loved this book as a child!
My kids really enjoy their water table that we keep on the deck. It’s nice because they can come and go as they please without the big production that goes sometimes along with a swimming pool!
Camping is big in our family during the summer. All of the kids are at an age (finally!) where they can really enjoy it.
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My son is still pretty little but I love that it is warm now so that we can go for walks in the neighborhood.
We love to go check out the different parks in our area!
we enjoy bike riding-there are trails by the river, we see alot of birds and deer
I like to take my daughter to a park nearby. It has a huge, shaded sand pit and she absolutely loves to go there. We dig holes, make sand pies, build sand castles, find ‘treasures’ – the possibilities are endless and, like I said, it’s SHADED!
What neat stuff. My twins are 7 months and I love taking them outside to water the flowers we planted together. Thanks
We love to go to the zoo – and we just got our first Water Willy Sprinkler. We love spending lots of time running through the water in the backyard to cool off!
We love picnics at the park. Play and eat, play and eat!
We love the pool. I know that is boring but it is our favorite.
We love walking in the woods.
We go walk around in the mall where it is air conditioned!
What a great felt set! I just bought the book recently so this would be great to pair with that.
In the summer, I like to participate in the library activities with my children.
We also like to bake together, and water the tomatoes outside with a watering can.
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This is a fabulous felt set!!
WE like to go swimming during the summer-it’s too hot to be outside for anything else!!
I loved this story as a child. I can’t wait to share it with my daughter.
this is kind of an obvious one, but we love swimming in the summertime.
roo loves the old lady who swallowed a fly, by the way!
I like to go to the local iris gardens in my town. So many different varieties – my daughter loves them!
I’m a teacher and I think the greatest day of the year is water day. This includes water toys, bubbles, writing on sidewalks with water using paintbrushes. So fun!
One of the playgrounds near us has a splash zone complete with sprinklers and a bucket that overflows. It’s the perfect refreshing place to go on a hot day!
We love going to the community pool and the grandparents beach house. In fact we’re going to the beach house this weekend! Great giveaway, thanks!
We swim the summer away. The kids love everything and anything to do with the water.
I choose at least one novel to read aloud to my kids during the summer holidays. This summer, we have started with The Tale of Despereaux.
I love to take the kids to my parents’ place in Seattle. It’s on the water and the kids love to play on the beach. And it’s so beautiful there.
I love to go to the zoo – or a petting farm.
Our town has a fantastic new park with a great water feature that kids can play in. I can’t wait until the weather gets good enough to bring my son!
we love playing in the sprinklers
I love wading in the local creek and playing in the sandbox with kids.
The felt set is very cute, and I remember being a little freaked out by the song/story of the Old Woman when I was little. Swallowing a fly seemed like the end of the world to me!
Make freezer cream! It’s simply evaporated milk, sugar, and a Kool-Aid packet. Comes out lighter and frothier than ice cream!
Thank you!
Megret
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I love to take my boys canoeing on the river…
we make homemade ice cream, and then enjoy it following a texas-style BBQ.
We love to take chalk and draw pictures of things we see outside!
I love to go camping. Tons of stuff to do once you are out of the city. Thanks.
I remember felt boards from when I was young I loved them and haven’t seen them in years, it’s good to see that not every learning toy has to be overpriced and so complicated to use that your children have to be the ones doing the teaching. thanks
Happy Summer! What a fun giveaway drawing prize. I remember playing with felt boards from Sunday School. The teacher would illustrate Bible stories with them. Then, if we had paid attention, we could quietly play with the characters! The Good Ole Summertime! We swim in my sister’s pool, go to the par, go camping and fishing. Please enter me in your delightful contest. Many thanks, Cindi
i love taking my kids to the sprayground and park for a picnic!
We LOVE to explore the woods! We live on acreage in the woods of North Idaho. My son has so much fun running around.
I love going strawberry picking. Low to the ground – perfect for little ones. And our faces get covered with juice!
I love these books! My daughter has one about the farm and loves to play with it. Our favorite activity is swimming and going to the park.
During the summer my center runs a summer camp program which our preschoolers are too young to attend. So each July I set a Down by the Sea theme. We do all sorts of activities relating to the beach including playing volleyball with beach balls or balloons, digging for seashells in the sandtable, water activities and learning about sea animals. (I usually send away to Sea World every year for their teacher kit and then downgrade the songs and activities to the age I am working with.) Part of the activities also include a moving bulletin board. We fingerpaint the ocean and each time we make an art project pertaining to the beach (mostly the sea creatures) we add them to the bulletin board. By the end of the month our board is full. I take pictures each time we add something which I put together as a book so my students can continue to see the board and “read” about it. We have even made up our own Sea story based on our photo book! The whole month is so busy and fun filled that it would be impossible for me to describe only one activity!
Definitely- Playing in the sprinkler!!! The best way to cool off on a hot summer day.
My boys love blowing bubbles as well, but I think more than that they love water – we will be swimming in the pool alot!
We are pretty boring – our favorite activity is to go to the pool!
My little ones are only 2 and 9 months right now, but so far we love going on walks, playing on the swingset, sidewalk chalk and blowing bubbles!
We’re also huge bubbles fans — we love making them and blowing them (and spilling them
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Sidewalk chalk is also great.
And when it’s REALLY hot, nothing beats running through running water from the hose
My daughter is three so we are just developing traditions – swim lessons and $1 scoop night at the icecream store are favorites right now.
Running through the sprinklers! We have a whole collection of different sprinklers!
I love taking my kids to the zoo. My oldest absolutely love it so we definitely make us of our zoo membership. I feel like I can keep going back and don’t have to see everything. We also love going on walks and playing with bubbles.
I like to take my kids to the lake. They can feed the ducks, and stay cool by the water.
My little one is only a little over a year old, so I don’t know what I’ll enjoy the most. So far we’ve enjoyed her kiddie pool, taking long walks (no more stroller for her, thank you very much) and playing with the hose. I’m looking forward to some cool museums, lots of library time, and playing with cousins.
This was my absolute favorite book when I was a kid! I’d love to share it with my boys….
Oh, and we love to visit the zoo and go to the park. And swim!
I love getting really messy with paint in the backyard with my daughter. We paint with large brushes on large pieces of unwanted cardboard. Its great fun!
I love going to the various spray parks and getting out into nature.
In the summer we love to set up a few sprinklers in the backyard, put on our bathing suits and play in the sprinklers!!
we love making a list for a scavenger hunt. its so much more fun going for a walk and the park when we are both carrying our little bags with list in hand hoping we can find everything on it.
making sidewalk chalk-drawings! you get an instant art gallery! how fun is that!
I have 3 grandchildren…and we love to swim in the pool, play on the swingset and munch on watermelon! They would really love to spend some quiet time with this prize~
My favorite thing to do this summer with my daughter is swimming. Or any thing to do with water. She loves the water, so we play with sprinklers, water slides, and water balloons as well. Thanks so much for the opportunity.
We love visiting pools, splash pads and sprinklers.
We love swim during the summer, but when it’s too hot to be outside we love to do crafts and make christmas presents!
great prize
love to organize neighborhood games like ghost in the graveyard
I loved the hot days of summer
I always loved buying chalk and decorating the sidewalk and driveways!!
This would be wonderful for my granddaughters! Their mother loved this poem as a child!
One of our favorite activites to do is a Scavenger Hunt. I make up a list with pictures of objects to find like acorns, a yellow flower, a worm, a big leaf, a bumble bee. When we find them we check them off. We don’t typically keep the items, we just find them and talk about all the other awesome things God has made along the way!
Our favorite summer activity is hiking in the woods and discovering new animals and plants.
My kids love “Fieldtrip Fridays” where we take a break from swimming and visit places we haven’t been before. We have even taken a ride on a city bus and the kids thought that was the best thing in the world.
Our favorite summer time fun begins with nature. Watching the birds, squirrels, deer, rabbits, etc.. Going to a hot air balloon festival. Going to a air show. Going to the parks. Just enjoying summer time fun.
Our favorite family time with the kids during the summer is collecting ants for many of the ant farms we’ve created. We go find many different types of ants and have built several different farms (gel, sand, etc.) The kids love the work the ants do and all the designs they create.
I would love to win this and take to my class.
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I have 3 girls of VASTLY different ages – 15, 6, and 1. My favorite thing to do with them is nothing. I mean just sitting around and doing nothing.
We like to talk walks in the park with a sketchpad and when they’re inspired to draw something or write something I let them have the sketchpad and they go to it. We have quite a bit of pretty summery art because of this.
I always sing this song to my grandaughter.I love to take my grandchildren on picnics at the park!
We love to swim, go the park, hike, and ride our bikes together!
My sons (2 and 4) and I go to the library every Saturday for story time and they color and play with the educational toys they have as well as new friends they’ve made there.
This summer they are both joining the Summer Reading Club for the first time and will get prizes for my reading to them every night and my oldest will get credit for the books he’s beginning to read as well.
Chase fireflys on warm summer nights!
My son loves playing with water. He loves his new water table! Thanks!
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Summertime is for waterplay! We love to go to the various parks in our area that have water features. It wears my son out, which I love too!
Because we live in AZ we always go swimming at the pool, or play at splash parks nearby. We have water balloon fights too. One new activity is hiking, it’s such a great activity, and though we are all working up a sweat, the scenery distracts us from being exhausted. But when the weather is too much we love to take the kids to do fun indoor activities. One plavce that we love that is also free is the mall indoor play area. We are going to go to a Jump house next week! We love doing anythin that keeps our famliy active! Thank YOU!
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we run through the water sprinkler, sidewalk art with chalk, sit in gazebo and read.
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We love to go to the park and have a picnic! What better way to spend quality time together without spending a lot of money.
We love to go to the ice cream shop and get slushies!!
My grandgirl, Michelle, is a budding actress. She would absolutely love this set. She knows the song. The additional pieces would make it a perfect impromptu show for visiting family and friends.
We love inviting other people over to swim in our pool. Last year a bunch of kids from the homeschool group came with their moms and we had a moms day together and a kids day together once a week.