Is your summer activity list running short?

Summer is slowly slipping away. Soon school will be starting again. I know that I am NOT ready for school to begin again. I enjoy the summer. It lets me enjoy my boys without having to force them to do homework or to go to bed at a "decent" hour.

Summer is a time for parents, it's the season when our kids are ours again. This means responsibility for continuing their education during the summer months. Yep education. That means keeping up with what they learned in school last year and reinforcing it so they don't forget.

The easiest thing is to simple read them a book. Children love to be read to, and if your like me and you have a child that can read on their own let them read you a story. One of the best times we have is sharing the funnies in the Sunday paper.

For some fun simple activities visit www.nickjr.com or www.crayola.com. They have printables, a.k.a coloring sheets that are free, free on-line games and ideas from celebrating a birthday to learning why which crayons are in our coloring box. Nick Jr. has pages featuring the Wonder Pets, Go Diego Go!, Olivia, to Moose. May the summer never be boring!

Also on these sites you can sign up for a free e-mail newsletter that they send out to tell you about special printables and activies they have available.

Sounds like fun to me! So break out the crayons and glue!!!