Wendy's List

1. make a castle w/ drawbridge out of a refrigerator box   DONE!

2. spend a wknd at the ocean and make a giant sand castle  DONE!  (will do again and again)

3. have an under the sea party (or turn his room into an under sea theme for a week):

• fill the ceiling with helium balloons of blue and green shades
• tie green crepe paper streamers from green balloons so it looks like kelp
• make paper fish, sea horse, and star fish and hang from other balloons at different levels
• replace light bulb with blue bulb
• cut tiny horizontal slits in a lamp shade so it creates light waves on the wall
• play music like "yellow submarine", "octopus's garden" and dolphin/whale sounds

5. buy a huge roll of bubble wrap and roll around on it

6. winter camping in the living room with a tent - roast tofu dogs and vegetarian marshmallows in our fireplace on branches

7. rainy day - blanket forts in the dining room, make cookies or brownies and read books in the fort

8. bake dragonfly and other bug shaped sugar cookies and drink sun tea

9. melt crayon shavings in wax paper and make stuff to hang in our windows.

(there's a goldmine in the bottom of your crayola box)

*always have crayons, and play-doh and giant rolls of paper for him

10. pumpkin picking and carve really cool pumpkins

11. have picnics inside and outside

12. go peach picking

13. play shadow puppets at bedtime  DONE!  Will do again and again

14. have puppet shows

15. have pillow fights  DONE!  Will do again and again!

16. make giant bubbles with the bubble thing

17. build and fly a kite

18. go sledding and build a snow man (when older ice skating), drink hot chocolate

19. watch a rented movie from the sofa-bed while eating popcorn

20. keep a basket near the door for rocks with a sign that reads

"magic rocks, take one or leave one".

21. hang a bird feeder outside his window  DONE!

22. hang wind chimes near his window

23. go camping outdoors

24. make our own pizza party

25 . spend the night in saugerties light house with friends for a special occasion like a birthday

26 . canoe to bannerman castle

27. go to see the grand canyon and giant redwoods

28. go to europe (italy to see franc, france to see fred, england to see eric)

29. go to canada (old quebec city)

30. go to niagra falls  DONE!

31. go to letchworth park

32. see cirque du soleil

33. go to outdoor concerts  DONE!  Will do again and again!

34. go to the park frequently    DONE!  Will do again and again!

35. take lots of walks together and look for magic rocks  DONE!  Will do again and again!

36. go to an aquarium a/o good farm (where they are kind to animals)  DONE!  Will do again and again!

37. go to baseball games

38. find a pond and feed the ducks whenever we have old bread

39. teach him how to ride a horse and feed it carrots

40. make paper mache masks for halloween

41. build a tree house

42. eat watermelon and spit the seeds at each other

43. water balloon fights

44. watch the perseid and leonid meteor showers

45. look for planets with our telescope

46. dance a lot

47. a birthday parade...with instruments

48. celebrate holidays and make up our own