56 Days of Summer - The 'To Do' List - How we did

At the beginning of the summer holidays we all sat down and made a list of 56 things we would like to do over the summer. Here is the list now we have reached the end of the summer holidays. We managed 50/56 which I think is pretty good really considering how badly the rain hindered the feeling of it being summer at all! Now I think we shall sit down and make a list for Autumn. It was a good way of finding something to do when the 'I'm bored's start up and helped give us a plan for when the routine of school left us a bit 'all at sea'!

1. Have a BBQ  - We didn't manage this in Scotland as weather has not permitted but we did have one down South
2. Go camping again - Given that the first time we went Max ended up in hospital we haven't managed this! But we still intend to try in September if the weather allows
3. Party - We had some great parties, but our favourite was Poppy Cottage Day!
4. Mini golf - Still to do - the blooming weather again!
5. Make paint spot garland - Done (see earlier post)
6. Go on a scavenger hunt - Done in the woods (see earlier post)
7. Lego photo stories - Still to do. Need to get the boys to write a story first for the lego to act out!
8. Go to see Kung fu Panda 2 in cinema - Tick
9. Work 4 money to buy more lego  - A great way to encourage good behaviour. Boys got 20p if could stay on 'green' on behaviour chart all day. They earned £11 between them.
10. Take a family pile up photo - Done but not that well. Will try again.
11. Playground chalk art  - Done but will do more. We only managed to do it at home as the playground was already chalked up!
12. Make moon sand - Check. However the lid got left off the sand pit while we were away and it really started to smell, so  that has gone!
13. Fly a kite - Some successful attempts at Elie beach with pocket kites and the ones they got for Xmas last year
14. Do ice picking for treasure - need to wait until have enough room in the freezer to make the big block of ice!
15. Visit Aberdour beach - done. Was very busy!
16. Learn to make ice cream cones - have the recipe but still need to create!
17. Bubble target practice - See earlier post
18. Teddy bear pancakes - Ditto
19. Ravenscraig Park on Weds - managed only 2 Wednesdays due to bad weather!
20. Water pistol shoot out - At Granny's - great fun!
21. Beveridge Park to feed ducks - The ducks don't mind the rain!
22. Write the family rules - Decided and agreed but not up on the wall yet!
23. Animal exhibition @ Museum - Yep.
24. Make dinosaur tails - See earlier post
25. Library visits - Yes, twice. We have moved onto having longer stories now without pictures to listen to at bedtime, which Mummy is very excited about. Won't be long until they are ready for Harry Potter.
26. Crab croissant lunch - See post
27. Family movie night - Tick
28. Woodland walk - Tick, tick
29. Make a rainbow jamjar cakes - mmmmm see post!
30. Hand and foot paintings - see post
31. Build dinosaur land - another post!
32. Make Galaxy playdough - and one more post!
33. Plant flowers - the boys did a great job and we have had colour in the flower bed all summer
34. Go out for lunch - quite a few times in fact!
35. Have a special  family dinner - yes
36. Visit soft play place - yes - not weather dependent!
37. See planes at Headcorn Airport - and we had a lovely picnic there too
38. Cardboard sculpture - did some junk modelling but not what I had in mind when I wrote this
39. Bike ride on promenade - yes a couple of times
40. Bath crayons - yes and how I regret this idea!
41. Lincolnshire research trip - we did research and confused the children massively!
42. Make cocktails - kiddy ones and grown up ones too!
43. Charlie's christening - We had a fabulous time
44. Visit Ruins in St Andrews - boys ran riot and I think we read out half the headstones at Ollies request!
45. Stay with Granny & Grandpa - wonderful time!
46. Make fancy ice cream - yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
47. Stay with Nanny Noo - we sure did"!
48. Learn to ride without stabilisers - not quite but very close - maybe only a couple more tries
49. Go to seaside - and how many seasides we saw (maybe 6?)
50. Outdoor games tornament - Daddy won - but he cheated!
51. Take Gran-nan out for her birthday - for a lovely pub lunch
52. Go to Dunfermline park - but we will go this weekend as there is the Robert the Bruce festival on!
53. Make a marble run - see earlier post
54. Go for a country drive - loads of them as the weather was too bad 
55. Create a castle den - see this week's  posts
56. Go to MacD's - we did and only twice! Once on the first day of the holidays and once on the long drive home from England.