Summer Bingo

Have you heard of Summer Bingo?????  Helen wrote about it on her blog.  I thought I would give it a try.  There are too many kids in and out of our house this summer to have a formal chore chart.  So far the kids are looooving it!!! And so am I.  At the end of the first week, all three kids have completely filled in their cards.

Basically you make a bingo card and in each box, you put an activity for the kids.  You can customize for each child.  I used clipart for Lydia's bingo.



It can be a learning activity, hygiene habits, physical activity or just plain fun.   It seems to have united the kids and they are working together to get their cards filled in.  The girls naturally want to get it done and Parker doesn't want to be left behind.  Here's the link to the creator of Summer Bingo http://stacysbigpicture.typepad.com/altogether_too_happy/2009/06/quote-for-june-18.html 

 I'm sneaking in chores that the kids may have to do, along with playing Wii Outdoor Challenge and DDR.  Games that are fit and fun but not ones the gravitate towards.  Hannah made peanut butter cookies for the first time as a result of Summer Bingo.  Parker is reading his library books and Lydia, seeing the older two reading, is doing the same.  She's using her Leappad too.  They are also playing with toys that seldom get used.  I don't think I've heard the word bored yet this summer.

As far as rewards go, I've left it up to them to decide what would be a good reward for a completed card.  This week was  a DQ Blizzard.

 

(If you sign up for the DQ Blizzard fan club, you can get 2 for 1 coupons.  http://www.dairyqueen.com/ca-en/ )