So I thought I'd post this and hopefully get lots of people to respond.  I'm looking for ideas to do this summer in your own backyard or maybe inside too if it's raining.  Fun stuff to do preferably with stuff you have in the house or that you could buy for under a couple bucks.  Gotta love dollar stores!  Come back and link or LMK  if you've made a post on your own blog on summer activities.

1- Draw pictures or hopscotch with sidewalk chalk.

2- Waterballoon fights

3- Make a nature journal and draw bugs, leaves, flowers, weeds, etc.  that you find outside.

4- Make bubbles out of water and dishsoap

5-Make an obstacle course.  Use things such as jump rope, bounce ball 10 times, do 3 summer saults.

6- Make a relay race

7- Have 2 buckets or containers of water and one sponge per child.  Try to get as much water as possible from one bucket to the other.

8-  Ty die an old t-shirt. 

9- Jump through the sprinkler.

10- Press flowers and leaves in books.

I'll add more when I can think of any.  I'd love to hear what others can come up with!