lunch box love notes

Lot's of mom's like to tuck little notes into their children's lunch boxes, including myself!  Recently, I picked up these cute magnets for a few dollars at Marshall's.  I have been using them in my daughter's metal lunch box to leave her special messages.  Tomorrow she has library so I wrote "get books"!  She loves to see what the new message is and is getting some practice with letter recognition, sounds, and reading all at the same time.  Win, win.

ice cream castle

This was a really fun (and kid friendly) project that was the perfect culmination for our "castles" week at stay camp.  Detailed directions can be found here.  I grabbed the castle mold at our local grocery store - they were on sale too, 2 for $3!  I ran it through the dishwasher and then had the kids scoop some room temp. vanilla ice cream into the mold.  I gave them graham crackers in a Ziploc bag to crush into pieces to look like sand.  Then they decorated it with some candy shells, gummy sea creatures, ribbon flags and a princess. It was that simple.  I think this is going to become a summer tradition.  Do you have any fun summer traditions that you would like to share?