Summer Vacation Bucket List

School's out and the kids are home. How to keep them busy so you don't lose your mind? Make a bucket list. There are a ton of great ideas that we found off pinterest, momstown.ca and of course many are part of our signature momstown events! And be sure to check your local community for upcoming festivals, local farms, parks, and splashpads.

So here it is. My bucket list of 25 things to do this summer:

1. Go swimming in the lake
2. Make a sandcastle at the lake
3. Have a car wash playdate
4. Attend our momstown Picasso's in the Park
5. Visit the new Variety Heritage Adventure Park
6. Have a Pudding Party Playdate and let the kids get messy
7. Invite the neighbourhood kids for Bubblefest - bubbles, bubbles, and more bubbles
8. Make homemade chalk paint with my kids and paint our driveway
9. Go to Birds Hill Park for a picnic and a hike
10. Have a lemonade stand
11. Go strawberry picking
12. Go fishing with my oldest daughter
13. Visit Fort Whyte Alive
14. Go to Assiniboine Park's Nature's Playground
15. Take the kids to the St. Norbert Farmers Market
16. Go to the zoo
17. Make this non-toxic home-made paint & let the kids go wild in the yard
18. Bring the kids to Tinkertown
19. Make a craft on those rainy days
20. Visit a local farm
21. Fly the kite my daughter got for her birthday
22. Visit at least 2 different splashpads
23. Go camping
24. Drop the kids off at Grandma's so mom can get a pedicure (I think we all deserve this!!)
25. Attend the momstown Winnipeg Birthday Bash this August (check your local city for the date)

So here it is! My bucket list. So go on and make one too! There are so many fun things to do around the home and through-out our great city.  momstown.ca also has a great list of activities to do this summer. Check it out here.

And check us out on Breakfast Television talking about our Bucket List: http://video.citytv.com/video/detail/1722339460001.000000/your-kids/

Trip to the Zoo

In September our monthly curriculum theme is Let's Go to the Zoo but we were too eager to wait until then to go to the zoo! A few weeks back momstown Winnipeg organized a field trip for moms and toddlers to the Assiniboine Park Zoo.

I think we moms enjoyed it more then the kids. I haven't been to the Winnipeg Zoo if quite a few years, so it was a nice visit. There are lots of renovations going on there. I was sad to see the petting zoo and paddle wheel gone, but I'm excited to see what will be put there in its place.

After we stopped for a picnic and the kids played in the playground. That was my daughter's favourite part of the zoo.

If you missed this event, we are going again in September. And it will be on the weekend so the working moms and dads can join us! Hope to see you there!