29 Things to Do for Entertainment This Summer

1. Invite friends over for a bar-b-que. Not a lot of money? B.Y.O.M.! (Bring your own meat.)
2. Try all of the flavors at your local ice cream shop. (Too many? Enlist your family!)
3. Take a walk. Admire the gardens/flowers of those in your neighborhood. Ask for seeds or clippings to plant in your yard.
4. Go to an outdoor concert. (Check the paper or on-line.)
5. Watch the kids playing in your neighborhood. Listen, too.
6. Run through the sprinkler!
7. Paint a fun design/color scheme on your mailbox.
8. Go camping. (Need to go really cheap? Go in your backyard!)
9. Paint a fun design/scene somewhere in your house.
10. Grow some tomatoes on your porch (balcony/fire escape/veranda/back stoop).
11. Go yard sale-ing.
12. Buy lemonade at every lemonade stand you see (or start your own)!
13. Eat lots of fresh fruit.
14. Invent a recipe for fruit salad.
15. Find a recipe for a fun frozen treat.
16. Use a blender to make your own smoothies or frozen coffee drinks.
17. Look for outdoor art in your town/city/botanical garden.
18. Go to the farmers’ market.
19. Go to a flea market.
20. Find a nice body of water, and go swimming–or wading!
21. Go to the park and play basketball or tennis (or play on the playground!)
22. Go on a picnic.
23. Go for a walk in the evening, and see what you see in your neighbors’ lighted windows.
24. Eat a fresh tomato whole.
25. Sit in the sun.
26. Go on a walk at night, and go stargazing.
27. Build a sand castle.
28. Eat a sno-cone.
29. Go to a fair. (Or a carnival).