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FAMILY
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The Grandkids Are Coming!

How to Make Memories with Your Grandchildren in the Summer

e reached out to our Facebook pickleball, croquet, badminton, • Downtown or Wolfforth Farmers
followers with a simple frisbee Market
Wquestion: What do you do • Family storytime—especially about • Vacation Bible School
with your grandkids over the summer their parents and grandparents
to build lasting memories? Below are • Dinosaur Valley Park and Fossil
some of the answers: • Dress-up with old party dresses, Rim Wildlife
costume jewelry, and accessories
• Scrapbooking • Lubbock Lake Landmark
• Tell your love story or let your
• Age-appropriate art or crafts teenage grands read your love • The Public Library
• Board games and card games of all letters • National Ranching Heritage Center
kinds—like SkipBo and Uno • Read your favorite childhood (age • Texas Tech Museum
• Pizza picnic at the park playground appropriate) book aloud • Prairie Dog Town
• Grandparent/Cousins Camp • Make homemade ice cream (or • Buffalo Springs Lake
• Tea Parties—KK’s Tea Room homemade anything) to eat • Lake Alan Henry
• Paint or tye-dye T-shirts • Volunteer for Meals on Wheels • Silent Wings Museum
• Puzzles Nearby Places to Attend or Visit: • Adventure Park
• Bubbles • Science Spectrum • Moonlight Musicals
• Indoor forts, tunnels, and • Chick-fil-A
clubhouses with cardboard boxes • Trampoline Parks
and blankets • American Wind Power Center • Talkington YWCA- Sun 'n Fun
• Sports – golf, tennis, racquetball,

Our place at Buffalo Springs lake gives us fun options like boating, tubing, floating, sand pile, chasing little lizards,
catching frogs, taking nature walks and hunting for special rocks and other natural items for art. They all love to paint;
we set up tables in the shop and give them canvases and supplies for them to create in their down time. We also let them
prep meals like pizza and hands-on recipes like dirt cups. We have movie night and set up a tent. Glow night is fun with
glowing balloons and tubes; We play lots of games like “Go Fish” and “Apples to Apples”; we’ll be trying “Jacks” this
year. We turn on the sprinkler to have a “water park” on the trampoline. We pull the wagon behind the golf cart to carry
kids and dogs around; we read books. Sometimes, we make a trip in to town for treats, movie, or Science Spectrum. Kids
are growing up so fast—mainly, they just love hanging out with their cousins and having fun outside.
- Melinda Paxton

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