Road Trip
Homemade Lemonade
There's nothing like a tall, cold glass of lemonade to make a summer day go from nice to perfect. But forgo the package of instant lemonade and invent your own "family recipe." Feel free to get creative too, adding in muddled raspberries and blackberries or some sprigs of mint or lavender.
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Clay Day
Roll up your sleeves and get your hands a little (OK, a lot) dirty by taking a family ceramic class. The challenge of mastering the pottery wheel will be memory-making in itself. And who knows, you may even get some pretty jars and vases out of it for the house.
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Ice Cream Batch from Scratch
Continuing with the homemade theme, making your own ice cream seems like the next logical summer treat to master. And believe it or not, according to this Dulce de Leche recipe, it only takes a couple of ingredients and doesn't even require an ice cream maker.
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Hiking Roulette
Make a list of all of the local hiking trails in your area and randomly select one each weekend to tackle. Have each family member trade off picking a trail each week or put all of the options on pieces of paper and draw from a hat.
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Pizza Night
Since you can order a pizza any ol' time during a hectic school night, summer is the perfect opportunity to test out making it from scratch. Either make individual-sized pizzas so that each family member can top with the fixings of their choice, or apply a group effort to a full-size pie. Serve alongside your homemade lemonade.
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Tour Guide
If you know you haven't been taking advantage of the many tourism options your state or nearest city has to offer, here's a fun activity. Check out a tour book from the library and do the first activity that appears when you flip open to a random page.
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