
I didn’t write this list. I found it on a Google search. I was looking for things to do over the summer with the girls and I wanted it age specific. This came up as a Yahoo list and I copied and pasted because I want to see how many things we’ve already done and how many more we can do but most of all which ones I don’t think are necessary.
Have a great summer all and watch us as we go through the list – or not!
1. Go to the zoo – Done! On our Siblu trip to La Palmyre Zoo
2. Visit a farm
3. Go on a hike

4. Play with kittens or puppies
5. Catch a frog
6. Make a gigantic mess
7. Help clean up a gigantic mess
8. Master the monkey-bars
9. Swing high up into the sky all by themselves
10. Try ice-skating
11. Go sledding – Done!
12. Make a snow-man – Done!
13. Blow bubbles – done…frequently
14. Plant seeds and watch them grow – done

15. Have a pillow fight – Done you should have seen the mess and heard the laughter.
16. Jump on a big bed – done, on our bed more than once until daddy told them off!
17. Jump on a trampoline or in a bounce house – done
18. Hang out in a tent – done
19. Spend days at the beach – Daddy’s favourite pastime our first trip was when the girls were less than 2 weeks old! St Mildred’s

20. Build sandcastles – done and we have some wicked castle buckets to try out thanks to Aunty Hayley and Uncle John
21. Go fishing
22. Go out on a boat
23. Play with blocks and puzzles – done
24. Read the classic picture books – done Three little pigs, Goldilocks, Red Riding Hood, Gruffalo
25. Read a classic chapter book
26. Check out library books with their own library card – done but not regular
27. Get a passport – done first journey was to Italy aged 1 to meet Gracey
28. Carve a pumpkin – done
29. Hold a newborn baby (to see how much they’ve grown)
30. Love a special doll or stuffed animal – done

31. Bake cookies and cakes – done
32. Help plan their own birthday party
33. Go to the circus
34. Go to a museum on a quiet weekday
35. Play hide-and-seek – done not very well ‘I’m here daddy’ but done
36. Play a board game
37. Do nothing whatsoever all day – done
38. Try a sport – done gymnastics, swimming lessons and pony riding
39. Watch a sporting event
40. Learn to swim – doing
41. Be tickled in hysterics – all the time
42. Paint and draw as much as desired – done at preschool and occasionally at home
43. Have the use of scissors and glue – thanks preschool
44. Display artworks and other creations around the house – all the time
45. Learn to use a camera (and keep an album of the results!)
46. Play with clay
47. Pick flowers – done
48. Climb a tree
49. Gaze at the moon and stars – done
50. Toast marshmallows
51. Learn to eat an ice-cream cone – done

52. Watch a sunset
53. Learn to write their own names
54. Learn their addresses and telephone numbers
55. Learn their parents’ full names
56. Set the table
57. Clear the table
58. Help wash the dishes
59. Learn to say their pleases and thank yous and excuse mes – not finished but mostly done
60. Watch fireworks – done didn’t like them one bit though
61. Go to the ballet or theater or a puppet show – Jack and the Beanstlak Panto at Butlins, Peppa Pig at Dartford and Rory the Racing Car at Dartford
62. Put on a ballet or play or puppet show at home
63. Face paint – done

64. Dress up in costumes at will – All the time princesses or fairies
65. Learn rhymes and poems and songs by heart – done
66. Have a dance party
67. Enjoy friends at preschool and at the park
68. Invite friends over to play
69. Get to know grandparents
70. Play with cousins
71. Become attached to a wonderful preschool teacher and/or babysitter – Anita for Alice no question
72. Learn the name of our queen – done! celebrated her diamond jubilee at preschool this year
73. Know the name of their town, state and country
74. Be familiar with a map of the world
75. Listen to music from many different ages and genres
76. Hear and learn words from a different language have listened to Italian and French too next step spanish with the Spanish cousins
77. Learn the difference between trash and recycling
78. Grow their own vegetables
79. Learn to ride a bike (or try!) – we’re still on stabilisers but getting there
80. Take a road trip Devon 2012

81. Draw a self-portrait
82. Slurp alphabet soup
83. Learn to twirl spaghetti on a fork
84. Pick apples
85. Star in a home movie – they are minor celebrities now on You Tube
86. Learn a magic trick
87. Try different hair-dos – done
88. Practice writing letters
89. Practice counting to 100
90. Make up stories
91. Send a letter
92. Receive a letter
93. Ride on a merry-go-round – Butlins 2012
94. Give away toys and books to less fortunate children
95. Learn the value of coins and bills
96. Keep a piggy bank – not sure they’ve quite got the concept of saving yet
97. Try a musical instrument – thanks John Crane
98. Have a heartfelt wish granted
99. Have a heartfelt wish denied
100. Receive a million (make that a billion) heartfelt kisses and hugs from their parents! – All the time and no I will never stop giving them
Marianne Weekes