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Attend a local concert
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Barbecue – everyone bring their own meat to grill, and a side item to share
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Be a good citizen – help someone, be kind, say thank you
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Buy a season pass to the local amusement park, water park or zoo – go often
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Celebrate the 4th of July
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Check out movies from the library
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Clean out closets
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Clean out the garage or basement
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Cook on the grill often
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Create memories
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Develop your digital photos and put into albums
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Do community service work – adopt a park to clean up litter
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Do family history research
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Donate items you do not use to a charity
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Enter something into the county fair
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Exercise - go for a walk, hike, bike ride, swimming, run
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Find a service project that your family can do
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Fix up the yard
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Fix up your bikes, go for a ride
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Get a part-time job
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Go camping
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Go fishing
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Go for a hike
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Go on a National Park road trip
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Go on a picnic
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Go on a road trip
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Go outside of your house, and talk to your neighbors
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Go to a lake & rent paddleboats, jet skis or a boat
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Go to the amusement park
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Go to the beach
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Go to the pool and swim
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Go to the state fair
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Go to the zoo
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Have a backyard party for the neighbor kids or friends with picnic games – relays, races, water balloon toss, tug-of-war, pin the tail, ...
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Have a BBQ
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Have a car wash
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Have a fundraiser to help a local charity
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Have a garage sale
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Have a learning program with your children – get caught up in areas they need help, get ahead in areas where they excel, focus on subjects they enjoy
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Have a lemonade stand
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Have a LUAU
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Invite people to your home or on an outing – family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, teammates, school mates, or people from Church.
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Join the swim team
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Landscape your yard
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Make cookies to bring to nursing homes
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Make lemonade and sit on the front porch
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Neighborhood block party
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Offer to help the neighbors with a project
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Paint the house
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Pick fresh fruit
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Plan a vacation
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Plant a garden
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Plant flowers
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Play games as a family
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Play golf
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Play sports with friends or family - baseball, softball, volleyball, golf
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Play with your children
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Read
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Relax
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Rent out the local swimming pool and have a private pool party
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Run through the sprinklers
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Scouting – if you have a son or daughter involved in Scouting, get caught up on achievements
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Scrapbook
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See the new summer movies
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Shop at the farmers market
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Shop for school clothing on sale
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Shop for school supplies on sale
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Sign up for the summer reading program at the library
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Sleep in
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Spend time with your family
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Spend time with your friends
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Start a collection
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Start a hobby
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Start a journal – record thoughts and activities
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Start a lawn mowing business
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Start or join a group
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Start saving money for Christmas
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Stay up late
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Summer Olympics for your children’s friends, cousins or neighbors
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Take a nap
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Take a vacation day or week!
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Take tennis lessons
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Take tennis lessons
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Take the kids to the playground
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Take up a new sport
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Take up rollerblading
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Teach your children to write in a journal
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Teach your kids to cook dinner or bake desserts
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Visit a farm
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Visit a National park, monument or site in your area (http://www.nps.gov/) . Get a National Park Passport stamping book for your family – use the ink & stamp at the park & stamp your book with the date & place; bring the book on future trips.
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Visit festivals, fairs, concerts, carnivals, parades in your community
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Visit National Parks near your home
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Visit relatives, parents, grandparents
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Visit state parks
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Visit the county fair
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Visit your state capital
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Wash the car
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Work on a skit with the neighborhood kids or friends
