Friday, August 9, 2013

The Last Hurrah of Summer QR Code Activity


Summer is almost over for us. My kids go back to school in ONE week. I have planned a fun QR code activity to do before the first day of school. This will be our "Last Hurrah of Summer!" and I wanted to plan a full day to spend with my kids having fun and doing some of the things that we may not have time for once school starts.

This is the way that it works.
For every two hours during the day I have created QR Codes for two different activities to do as a family. The activities begin at 9 a.m. and end at 9 p.m. that night.
You choose one of the activities to do during each time frame (or you could do activities less often if you prefer. For example: 9 a.m. then again at 1:00 p.m. then 5:00 p.m. etc.)

Here are the choices (and the pictures for each choice.)

9:00 a.m.  Eating your favorite breakfast outside OR Going out to breakfast at a restaurant


11:00 a.m. Going to a park and having a picnic OR Packing your lunch and riding a bike somewhere fun to eat it



1:00 p.m. Swimming at the local pool OR Running through the sprinklers or having a water fight


3:00 p.m. Eating popsicles and reading a book OR Eating Ice Cream and watching a cartoon


5:00 p.m. Eating your favorite dinner on a blanket in the living room OR having a BBQ in the backyard




7:00 p.m Playing a board game OR Playing an active game as a family outside



9:00 p.m. Laying on a blanket and looking at the stars ORTelling scary stories with a flashlight on your face




Once you have chosen the activities that you want to do with your kids, you can play in one of two ways. 
#1 Just print out the QR Codes. 

This is the cheapest and easiest way to play, since the QR Codes are in black and white. Just cut out the QR Codes that you want to use. Put ONE in EACH envelope labeled with the time. Then hand the envelopes to your kids when they get up in the morning. They can use your smart phone, tablet or iPod to scan the QR codes with a QR code reader like QRAFTER PRO. This will tell them what activity they can do that hour. You won't believe their excitement as they wait for the picture to pop up on your phone! 
Then you are off and running, having fun until it is time to open the next envelope.

#2. If you don't have a smart phone, you can print out each of the pictures shown above. Then you can choose which activity that you want to do and put that picture in an envelope for your kids to open. Either way they will love to play with you and create memories of a fun summer day that will last all year long.

Print out the FREE QR Codes below:  


Print out the FREE Hourly Picture Activities below:  


Enjoy having one last Hurrah of Summer with your Kids! Next week I will be posting a fun QR Code Activity that you can do on the first day of school. So come back soon. 



Note: All the clip art came from sweetclipart.com or openclipart.org. Thanks to all the artists who provide their clip art for free on the web. Pin It

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