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We just bought a book with 100 things to do with kids outside and it has some fun - free- ideas. My DD's favourite is to make a nature bracelet by tying sticky tape around her wrist then finding things in the garden or on a walk to stick on it, like petals, leaves etc.
From your list I would do a splashpad, zoo, couple of museums. If you do one outing a day then maybe a craft at home, that is plenty. Maybe go out for ice cream as a special treat or something? Bake something easy like chocolate crispy buns....

I would definitely try to do an outing a day if the weather is nice. Even if it's just packing a picnic and meeting friends at the park. But when the weather is nice I love heading to the splash pad or zoo. And if it's super hot I head to the children's museum bc of the AC

For home activities/crafts - I love sticky mosaics (do you get Amazon?). They have them for beginners (so E's age) where the stickers are bigger and easier to manage. And then they have more involved designs with smaller stickers for 4+. C recently got a dinosaur one that you stick stickers on and then punch out and make into dinosaur figures that she loves.

Play dough or play sand is always a big hit too. You could make your own as an activity too.

If you like to do nature walks you could take a bag or bucket and fill it with random stuff you find on your walk. Then get a big sheet of paper and let them glue (kids seem to love glue!) everything to the paper. You can have L recreate your walk with the stuff you found and add illustrations incorporating the stuff you found as well.

C has always loved painting. You could just let them do free paint but sometimes I like to try and make something useful. If you had cardstock you can make postcards or thank you cards. Just cut to fit an envelope or fold to make thank you cards for future use. You can draw images or their initial on the card and have them paint them with watercolors. Or something that is more time consuming is to put paint on a dish and have them dot paint with q-tips and fill in the simple picture or initial with mult-color dots

If you like baking I would make it a full activity of looking up a recipe, making the shopping list, etc

I hope you have fun with your week off with your cities!!!

We take leisurely walks around the neighbourhood just looking at what's around us, we also go picnicking and just take life slowly

The kids have been home with me for most the summer and we've just been using the opportunity to relax. It's a long summer and I don't want to burn out, lol. I focus on one activity a day: have a play date, bake something, go for a swim, run some errands, etc. Then they play together with their toys, do crafts (nothing Pinterest-y, just regular coloring, painting, gluing, etc), and play in our backyard. Since you don't have a garden, do you have a bath tub? I fill ours up and they'll play in there for a long time.

I just did this about 3 weeks ago. It was so much fun. We went to a children's museum, we went to a peach festival, we went to an amusement park geared towards younger kids (luckily right in our town) and we went to the pool and beach (in our community). It was a blast. As for activities in the house we baked, painted and made pasta/glue designs.

This is what we did this week:

M: I hadn't slept well, so we hung out at home. The boys watched tv and than we did yoga together and played blocks. Played in the backyard a bit.

T: I took them for a stroller ride on a hiking path and then we went to a park with a pump track and they rode their bikes. Met up with a friend there.

W: We do a weekly hiking group do met up with them and walked around a small lake.

R: Baked zucchini cupcakes with caramel frosting. Played in the backyard.

F: Today we are going back to the same hiking trail I did on Tuesday with our hiking group friends and then the dryer repairman is coming.

After naps we typically just read books, play with magic sand or play do, and I make dinner. Or they run around like wild animals.