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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Strategic art projects (i work FT but specifically take off a few hours on Fridays for a special, more involved craft)
Water guns, slip and slide, sprinkler
Podding with a neighborhood family (have done so since march)
Garden (kids love to help weed and harvest)
Lots of new books
Pop up tent to shade the whole patio
DH and I both have VERY UNDERSTANDING bosses who have no issue with our current “alternative) schedules. More than anything, this might be what’s keeping us all sane[/quote]

Would love to hear some of your craft ideas, PP.
We have a garden that has been great also.
Considering pop up patio... do you like yours?[/quote]

OP here. The pop up tent has been amazing, we are basically planning to leave it up all summer now. We just got it off amazon. I can work under it while the kids play and we’ve even stayed out while it’s raining.
Crafts we have done: soap making (kit), painted rocks (just from the backyard), painted picture frames that we are sending to the gparents, pinwheels (kit), i have smithsonian kits to make a catapult and a bombard (figure they will be fun outside).
Need to keep an eye on our recycling, i want to make these: https://www.printablesfairy.com/black-glue-bugs-suncatchers/
“Art walk” best when it’s not 1,000 degrees out - we each take a sketchpad or small notebook and a few pens, pencils, etc on a walk. The rule is we stop whenever someone wants to, and draw what we see. It was fun for me to only stop when the kids stopped, and try to do something in the attention span of my 5YO!
I have some air dry clay that i want to do leaf/bark/grass imprints of, and then find a way to mount them on a backing so we can put them on the wall. I think we’llnhave enough to make/send christmas ornaments to everyone too.

Forgot to mention we also got an actual camping tent for backyard camping. Depending on conditions etc i want to try some hipcamp spots in the fall. But the kids love chasing fireflies and sleeping outside!

My kids are 5 and 9.
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