Cooking with Cricut: It's HOT Outside!

This week at Cooking with Cricut we're celebrating all the fun things there are to do in and around water, and it's the perfect challenge to showcase my most favorite idea of all time, lol!

I was thinking about how too often summer vacation comes and goes and we never get all the stuff done we had hoped to do: we would forget things we wanted or just not make time to do them. So this year I came up with...

A Sandbucket List!

It's a list of all the things we want to do this summer. There are some little ideas (go out to ice cream) and some bigger ideas. We sat as  family one night and everyone contributed something to the list. Then I got to make it pretty :)

I used "Life's a Beach" for all the cuts.

Supplies:

• Bulletin Board
• Royal blue paper to staple to the background
• 5 Tacks (one at each corner of the bulletin board and one on the bottom center)
• Twine (to wrap around the perimeter of the board  - wrap it around each tack to secure it)
• Mini Clothespins (found mine at Micheal's)
• Everything else is just paper/glue and my Cricut to make the shapes

Here is what is on our list:

1. Teach Ryan to read
2. Make homemade bread and homemade butter to put it on
3. Wash the cars in our bathing suits (just the kids will be doing this one, lol!)
4. Go to a baseball game
5. Take swim lessons
6. Make a homemade birthday cake for Daddy's birthday
7. Go on a picnic
8. Camp out in the backyard
9. Ride our scooters down the big hill (again...kids only!)
10. Make homemade lemonade from lemons
11. Learn to do a handstand (our daughter's goal)
12. Explore lots of different playgrounds
13. Go to the beach
14. Teach Annie to ride her bike without training wheels
15. Go to Minnesota
16. Make banana boats (a yummy campfire treat)
17. Fence in the backyard
18. Ride and airplane
19. Ride on a train
20. Make and ice cream cake from scratch
21. Go to North Conway
22. Walk to the farmer's market and buy flowers
23. Have our cousins over for a sleepover (no parents allowed!)
24. Eat outside on the patio at the Olive Garden
25. Learn to ide a scooter with both feet on it (our son's goal)
26. Go to Ericksons (the local ice cream shop)
27. Go camping with Papa in his backyard
28. Go on a kids vacation to Grammie and Grampa's house without our parents 
29. Go to a drive-in movie
30. Go camping
31. Sit out on the porch at night and look at the stars
32. Read Make Way for Ducklings at the park in Boston
33. Fly a kite
34. See as many different license plates as we can and keep a list
35. Watch an entire Red Sox game on TV (our kids...my husband is already proficient at this, lol)
36. Go the the Children's Discovery Museum (a local place)
37. Climb a tree (kids)
38. Go strawberry picking
39. Go to The New England Aquarium with our neighbors
40. Sleep over at Great Grammie's house
41. Swim in the ocean
42. Build a giant sand castle
43. Read Harry Potter (our daughter's goal)

We are super excited for this summer and to do everything on our list!

I'm entering this project at My Craft Spot in their Summer Colors Challenge!

I'd love to see what kind of crafts you are coming up with to celebrate summer and all the fun stuff to do in/around water. Head over to Cooking with Cricut to link up your project.

I would love any feedback you have and always appreciate new blog followers. Leave me a comment and I'll head over and check out your blog as well!