Tickets to add to a Summer Fun Jar- most relevant to Kitchener-Waterloo

Listen to an episode of Adventures in Odyssey

7 pm weeknights 93.7FM

Or whitsend.org and click on “LISTEN NOW.”

Go to a farmer’s market and buy a fruit or vegetable you never tried before.

Put a movie on hold at the public library.

With a parent’s permission, take apart something that is broken to see its hidden parts.


Count the coins in your family coin jar and together decide on a charity to give it to.

Surprise someone with a tea or hot chocolate.

Make pizza using Naan or other flat bread as your base.

Go outside and take pictures of 6 different kinds of flowers.


Make a smoothie.

Make an ice cream cone

Make your own popsicles

Make a fruit salad.


Ask your parent or caregiver to tell you a story about their childhood

Write a note or card to one of your cousins and put it in the mail with a stamp.

Offer to do yard work for one of your neighbours.

Send Mrs. Mostert a postcard to the school’s address.  She will get it.


What would a cameleopard look like? Try to draw one.

Visit the KW Art Gallery at 101 Queen St. N in Kitchener.  It’s free. Kwag.ca 

Make a robot using supplies in your blue box.

Find the oldest book in your house and read 3 pages of it.


Reread one of your favourite books.

Visit a little library close to you. Find them at llkw.ca/honour-roll.

Go to a community centre and find out about their programs

Write in your journal or notebook.


Take a hike and notice different birds and plants

Wash your bicycle.

Ride your bike around the block.

Call a grandparent on the phone, with permission


Create an outdoor obstacle course.

Make an indoor treasure hunt for someone else that has at least 7 clues and hiding places.

Think of 5 different exercises and stretches.  Do them to some music that you like.

Learn a new song on the recorder, piano, ukulele, drums or some other instrument.


Play a game of UNO.

Plan a playdate with a friend, including the snacks you will share.

Walk to the park or playground close to your house.  

Plan your own small yard sale or bake sale.


What day of the month is it?  Read the Psalm in the Bible that has the same number.

Write out a line from a song that you like using an ERASABLE marker on the mirror. When someone notices it, offer to clean the mirror. 

Learn to count to 10 in a new language.  Teach someone else to do it too.

Sign out a musical instrument from the central branch of the Kitchener Public Library.  Have fun with it, while taking good care of it


Read the chapter from Proverbs that matches the date today.  Which proverb sticks in your mind?

After checking the weather forecast, set up a tent in your backyard and make plans to sleep in it that night.

Take a city bus to a park you like.

Take the ION train with an adult.






Blow bubbles outside.

Visit a farm.

Write in a journal.

Play catch with a tennis ball outside.


Plan a picnic.

Trampoline.

Organize a baseball game in a park near your house

Follow a Bob Ross painting tutorial.


Make paper airplanes.

Draw a cell and label 8 parts.

Go on a walk and bring a plastic bag to pick up garbage with.

Do a walk around the block and pay attention to one God made thing.


Draw a map of a room of the house that suggests a way to rearrange the furniture in it.

Make a cootie catcher.

Make a menu, using food already in the fridge, for tomorrow that you will help make.

Walk around your house and look closely at the framed photos and artwork. Which do you like best and why?


Read part of a newspaper.

Lay on the ground outside and watch the clouds.

Return an abandoned shopping cart to the store.

Go into your backyard and identify 10 different sounds you can hear.


Do a word search.

Stargaze.

Start a jigsaw puzzle.

Play Scrabble.


Make popcorn.

Sing a song you remember from music class.

Make an encouraging card or note for someone in your house.

Play with Lego.


Get out your skipping rope to skip and learn some new skipping techniques.

Make a recipe for the perfect sandwich. Add the ingredients you don’t have to the shopping list and make it soon.

Make cartoon creatures using fingerprints.

Find toys you no longer use and decide who to give them to.


Colour with crayons.

Go to the library. Visit an aisle you have never looked in before.

Choose a song to play after dinner.

Colour with pencil crayons.


DANCE!

Make hopscotch on your sidewalk or driveway.

Climb a tree.

Read a comic book.


Create a no-bake dessert you can make for your family.

Do a chore secretly.

Put a movie on hold at the public library.

Catch insects and examine them.






Find a map of Ontario and look for a town with an interesting name and write a short story explaining how you think it got its name.

Read a chapter of a non-fiction book.

Learn how to sign your name in American Sign Language.

Go up and down your street and look at the mailboxes people have. Make your own mailbox awards for the nicest ones (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and leave them in the winners’ mailbox.


Make biscuits.

Record your voice reading a poem. Play it at dinner.

Research a tropical fruit on computer. (Ideas: dragon fruit, durian, bread fruit, pineapple)

Make a reusable HAPPY BIRTHDAY poster for your family to hang up every time there is a birthday.


Read a chapter of a book in your room.

Organize the pantry.

Go swimming

Make your own slime.


If you got a new pet, what would you name it and why? Draw a picture of it.

Hide a penny somewhere in your house and see who will find it.

Look through an old photo album or your baby photos.

Write a story based on something that happened to you this summer.


Decorate a cardboard box.

Create a crossword puzzle and give it to a family member for them to try.

Take pictures of six insects and try to find out their names.

Plan and host a bake sale on your street. Make posters or flyers.


Play a song on the recorder.

Learn to count to 10 in a different language.

Test out all the markers in your house. Take the “dead” ones to STAPLES for Terracycling.

Sign out a drawing book from the library and sharpen your pencil.



Tell jokes.


Make fruit salad.


Visit a cemetery. Notice designs of headstones.


Plan a sleepover.


Make a note or card for someone and mail it with a stamp.

Make your own drum set using household items.

Go on a hike.

Take a bubble bath.


Build a blanket fort inside.

Invent a new sport. What equipment do you need? What are the rules? Who can you teach it to?

Set a reading goal and surpass it.

Sort your books into alphabetical order.


Write a kind message with sidewalk chalk.

Think of 5 acts of kindness and do them all.

Research how to make shadow animals with your hand and make a shadow show.

Find an interesting word in the dictionary and make a fun drawing about it.


Bake some cookies with a parent’s help.

Make a video based on a story you like.

Learn how to make a friendship bracelet.

Have a nap outside in the shade.