Summertime Means Family Fun

The sun is shining, the weather is beautiful and it’s time for family fun. Summertime provides a great opportunity to start or add to a healthy lifestyle. Your family fun can be active and provide vital exercise that makes your family healthier. Including nutritious food should also be part of your summer family adventures. There’s no better time to do it than summer when fresh produce is readily available.

You don’t have to break the budget to live a healthy lifestyle and have family fun.

Walking is free. You can walk to a local park or drive there and hike, swim, or bicycle. Prince’s Island Park in Calgary is a perfect place for family fun. During the summer, picnic areas, playgrounds, hiking trails, and a flower garden are available. There is even the Chevron Learning Pathway to strengthen young minds. It can be your go-to family fun area for the winter when outdoor skating and cross-country skiing are available. Pack a nutritious lunch and improve a healthy lifestyle with family fun.

Focus on active family fun when you give gifts.

Getting the entire family bicycles is one way to encourage an active family lifestyle. You can buy everyone a hula hoop for very little money and have hula hoop contests. For your days with family outings, make it a no-phone day. The adults should carry their phones, leaving only one turned on in case of an emergency incoming call or the need to make an emergency outgoing call. Let a close family member know the one available phone number. There’s nothing better for mental health and reuniting the family than a day without electronics.

Help your budget and your meal selection with freshly picked fruits and vegetables.

Fill the freezer or can fresh fruits and vegetables when your family goes to one of the many U-pick farms. Many local farmers open their fields for families to pick berries, vegetables, and even sunflowers and buy these fresh options for less than the price at the store. Many offer other family fun like a sunflower maze. You can pick vegetables like cucumbers, carrots, and peas. You can pick fruit, which includes haskaps, saskatoons, rhubarb, raspberries, and strawberries. Many farmers allow you and family members to graze a little on the produce while you’re picking it.

• You’ll build memories with your family, while also instilling an active lifestyle and healthy eating habits. Children learn what they live. Make what you teach a valuable lesson that will last their entire life.
• If the day is hot and unbearable, take the family fun indoors. Go to air-conditioned museums and aquariums where walking is part of the visit.
• You don’t have to leave home to have active family fun. You can put up a hoop and play basketball or join the younger children in a game of tag.
• Focus on safety when planning family outings. Set rules before you go so younger children don’t stray from your sight and older children don’t head off alone. Teach your children what to do in emergencies and if approached by strangers.

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