Field Trips

This summer, to help give us something to do, I planned something that I called field trips, or Tuesday Treks.  It is obviously a little late for anyone to do this now, but I thought I'd give some details about it in case any of you want to plan it for your area next year.  I got the idea from the last neighborhood that we lived in.  My friend there did this every summer.  Every Tuesday of the summer, I planned somewhere to take my kids (and anyone else who came along).  It required only a little effort at the beginning; some thinking about where to go, a few phone calls to arrange tours, typing it all up and copying it for the neighborhood.  I tried to make it at the same time each week, with people meeting at my house to caravan over.  I passed the list out in church as well as to the people on my street who are not members of my church, but have kids at home.  I felt like it was a success.  We had a good amount of people at every field trip and everyone seemed to have fun.  We always planned on a picnic lunch somewhere after and the mom's had a great time visiting while the kids played.  Here are some of the places that we went:

A fire station

 The kids are in the fire truck.

 A local farm

We took tours of a movie theater (and we watched their dollar show as well), candy factory, grocery store (our best attended field trip), went to a museum, a cool park, and a hike up in the mountains.  The last field trip was a potluck lunch and water party for the kids at my house.  I figured that even if nobody else was interested, it would be fun activities for my kids for the whole summer.  And it was a fun summer!