Summer boredom setting in? No fear! We’ve got you covered with 100+ Summer Fun Ideas for Kids In Rome, Georgia, to keep those kids busy (and also maybe sneak in a lesson or two!). Many of the ideas have links, examples, or web pages for the different places. We hope this will help make summer a little more fun for everyone. Please comment below on anything we’ve missed.

Summer fun: Activities

1. Bubble blowing contest
2. Sidewalk chalk art competition
3. Make fresh lemonade
4. Pie eating contest
5. Outdoor games
6. Family relay races
7. Camp-out inside or in the backyard
8. Make puppets
9. Have a puppet show or retell a story
10. Go on a bug hunt
11. Make s’mores
12. Go on a nature walk around your house
13. Have a sleepover
14. Make a fort with blankets or boxes
15. Read books then draw your favorite part
16. Build castles with Legos or blocks
17. Make paper dolls
18. Go on a scavenger hunt
19. Have a fashion show/play dress-up
20. Learn a new skill
21. Have a water balloon fight
22. Run through sprinklers/play in the water
23. Paint rocks
24. Celebrate an unbirthday or random holidays
25. Make your own pizza
26. Bake cookies
27. Have a picnic
28. Fly kites
29. Have a car wash and wash toys cars
30. Wash plastic dishes
31. Make sidewalk chalk
32. Make fruit loop necklaces (practice sorting colors, talk about same vs different)
33. Have fun with shaving cream
34. Mud pies or sand play using cooking supplies from Dollar Tree
35. Water painting on the sidewalk
36. Make ice-cream
37. Popsicle party
38. Hula hoops
39. Bean bag toss
40. Stay up late and look at the stars
41. Jump on the trampoline
42. Make your own instruments
43. Finger paint
44. Sensory play with food (jello, pudding, etc.)
45. Color or paint (favorite part of the day, book, movie, illustrate a story you write)
46. Play with stickers
47. Pick flowers
48. Sing songs
49. Paper plate crafts
50. Write a letter to a friend or relative
51. Glow stick tag
52. Plant a garden
53. Climb a tree
54. Read Eric Carle’s Little Cloud and then look for cloud shapes in the sky
55. Look for rainbows
56. Play in the rain
57. Make a fairy garden
58. Play with ice (freeze toys and then watch them melt out)
59. Play hopscotch
60. Straw painting
61. Make playdough
62. Go on a hunt (looking for things that are a certain color or letter)
63. Make your own bath bombs
64. Use pipe cleaners
65. Make an obstacle course
66. Squirt gun painting
67. Make slime
68. Ride bikes
69. Quiet time boxes
70. Build a track and have races with toy cars

Summer Fun: Places

*Visit Rome*

1. Park/Playground (bike riding, walking, playing, picnic, feeding the ducks)
   1. Ridge Ferry
   2. Etowah
   3. Cedartown playground
   4. Etowah Skate Park
   5. Lock and Dam
   6. Rocky Mountain
   7. The Pocket
2. Go see a movie
   1. Movies at Berry Square
   2. GEM Theatre (Calhoun)
   3. The West Cinema (Cedartown)
3. Visit a local fire station
4. Go to the library (summer reading program and activities)
5. Take an art class
   1. Studio Siri
   2. Michaels
   3. Swerve: Off the Path
6. Visit the Eco Center
7. Visit a museum
   1. Museum of flight
   2. Creative Discovery Museum
   3. Tellus Museum (Cartersville)
   4. Oak Hill and Martha Berry Museum
   5. Rome Area History Museum
   6. Museum of Flight
8. Visit an indoor playplace
   1. Froggy’s
   2. Mcdonald’s (West Rome, East Rome and Armuchee)
   3. Crayon Panda (Cartersville)
   4. The Lily Pad (Rockmart)
   5. Bounce and Beans (Cartersville)
   6. Catch Air (Kennesaw)
9. Volunteer
10. Dollar Tree
11. Go berry picking
    1. LCCL Strawberry Farm
12. Fun wheels skating center
13. Paint Rocks and hide them around town
    1. Rome Rocks
    2. Rome GA Rocks
14. Splash pads
    1. Town Green
    2. Peek Forest Park (Cedartown)
15. Go for a swim
    1. YMCA
    2. Northside Swim Center
    3. Cave Springs (Also 4^th of July Parade)
16. Go bowling
    1. Classic Bowling Center
    2. Floyd Bowling & Amusement
17. Go Time Family Fun Center
18. Visit Berry College (nature walks, picnic, biking, visit Dairy Cows, Water Wheel, photography)
19. Cold Treats
    1. Kaliedasnow
    2. Dairy Queen
    3. Sweet Frog
    4. City Creamery
    5. Jandy’s
    6. Frios
    7. Mountains
    8. LCCL Strawberry Farm
20. Rome Braves Game
21. Gymnastics (open gyms and camps)
    1. Hot Shots
    2. Gymnastics Center
22. Visit a grocery store to buy supplies for a special recipe
23. Go fishing
24. Go to the Zoo
    1. Zoo Atlanta
    2. Chattanooga Zoo
25. Go to the Aquarium
    1. Atlanta Aquarium
    2. Chattanooga Aquarium
26. Visit a water park
27. Sweet Treats
    1. Sweet Bar
    2. Honeymoon Bakery
    3. Krispy Kreme
28. More outdoor adventures
29. Go Camping
30. Go on an outdoor adventure
    1. Paradise Gardens (Summerville)
    2. Rock Garden (Calhoun – park in Seventh Day Adventist parking lot) Also hiking (behind field to trail and streams)

Do you have any more great ideas to share? Feel free to leave your ideas in the comments section.