Summer is just about over but you don’t have to let that stop you from some outdoor FUN!
I designed this Playground Passport. Print the cover on cardstock and loads of inside pages on regular paper. Then spend your weekends (and weekdays!) filling it up!
The passport is tiny – just the right size to keep in your purse or diaper bag! Be sure to include the date and maybe a special memory you made (bird watching, birthday party, hike, picnic…) at the park. We decorate with stickers, stamps or a simple picture.
Here is an awesome idea for venturing out of our “park comfort zone” from my friend Michelle over at Fun OC Parks…
As the editor and writer for my FunOrangeCountyParks.com blog, my park passport has over 180 "stamps" in it. However, it took me three years to fill it up! Let me act as tour guide and introduce some Points of Interest on the compass.
North
Box Canyon Park in Yorba Linda and Heritage Park Play Island in Cerritos
East
Concourse Park in Portola Hills and Pioneer Road Park in Tustin
South
Talega Park and Forster Ranch Community Park in San Clemente
West
Alta Laguna Park and Moulton Meadows Park in Laguna Beach
Harriett Wieder Regional Park and Shipley Nature Center in Huntington Beach
Mountains
Coastal Peak Park
Ocean
Aliso Beach Park
There are so many amazing parks that are only a short drive away. Please get out there, have fun, and spend some family time outdoors this summer!
Thank you Michelle!
If you haven’t seen the Fun OC Parks site yet, you are missing out. Michelle has done all the research needed before a park visit. Here are a few of her lists.
Orange County parks with Cars, Trains & Rocket ships
(pic above from the the second Inside the Outdoors Sunset Hike we went on. Still gotta post the awesomeness!)
If you are still looking for fun outdoorsy things to do check out the latest calendar from Inside the Outdoors! (remember the amazing sunset hike we went on?) The calendar is filled with fun kiddo/family activities.
If #4 is running late, I may do the sunset hike on September 24th to induce labor.
Any nurses wanna come on the hike too!?!?!
Seriously!
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Stephanie says
Love this! Makes a great keepsake as well.
Eli's Lids says
And accountability for me to try new places!
Amanda says
This is a great idea. I love that your “stamps” capture the memories.
Eli's Lids says
Thanks Amanda! First I wanted to be really artsy and make each look like a different country stamp… but then I realized that the point was to let the kiddos do it and visit loads of places. Oh, perspective!