Treasure Bags

We're headed to the beach again this week so it was time to dig out the bags I made for the kids when we went to Hawaii in January. I also thought it would be a fitting time to share them with all of you, it being summer and all.

Super basic sewing skills needed here. Trust me, if I can do it, you can too. I {mostly} followed the terrific directions over at Come Together Kids to pull the bags together.


The kids carried the bags around our whole vacation, each day filling it up with new treasures they thought were fun. We'd dump them out that night, ready to go again the next day. Seashells, rocks, sticks, seaweed, you name it, it was in that bag.

I loved them because I wasn't stuck trying to figure out a place to hold their treasures, when my hands were full of bags, chairs, umbrellas, fussy babies...you know how beach trips can go.

At the end of our vacation we consolidated the treasures in to a manageable amount to travel home with and have been using them in our ocean unit we're doing at home. They are also in jars serving as decorations and reminders of our vacation.


Here's to treasure hunting whether at the beach or in your own backyard.

Summer Fun Box Check Off

I must be feeling really list-y this week. Seems like I've been making a lot of them.

But this one's fulfilling to my obsessive-compulsive-need to check things off lists.

Remember back at the beginning of summer when I made up a box of fun summer activities to do? Since tomorrow's the first day off fall (*tear*), here's a summer wrap up from our check list.

✓Picnic at the park 

✓Eat breakfast outside 

Take family pictures (the camera I got, I returned. Didn't like it. So I'm on the hunt for a new one.)

✓Make s'mores (admittedly, a few times) 

✓Go to baseball game car races

✓Go to Munch n' Movies Music (none of the movies were toddler-appropriate) 

✓Go out for ice cream (can you say "we live too close to frozen yogurt"?) 

Go canoeing (floated on the lake, but still not canoeing)
Make frozen bananas
Play soccer outside
Spit seeds
✓Make popsicles

✓Color with chalk 

BBQ pizzas

✓Take picnic to dad 

✓Living room sleep out
Snow cone party

✓Water day 

✓Make stepping stone 

✓Float the river 

✓Go to play ground 

✓Fly a kite 

✓Go camping 

✓Go for a walk 

✓Fireworks 

Build fort outside
Go fruit picking (cannot believe we didn't get to it this year!)

✓Make lemonade 

Go for bike ride

✓Go to the pool 

✓Paint outside (planning for this Friday, can I still check it?) 

✓Walk to get snow cones 

✓Collect bugs 

✓Watch clouds in a field 

✓Make fancy ice cream (totally flopped. ended up at above mentioned frozen yogurt.) 

✓Plant flowers garden 

✓Make playdoh 

Go carting
Movie outside

We did pretty good! And there's always next summer to try again...