Our Simple Checklist for Outdoor Summer Fun! 简单的夏日户外兴趣活动列表！

Spring has finally arrived in Beijing, bringing with it (mostly) blue skies and copious opportunities for outdoor fun. We Beijing residents are lucky that the city is teeming with parks and open spaces to take the kids outside on unpolluted days, but with multiple months of summer vacation, it can be a challenge to keep the younger ones busy for long. 

北京终于迎来了春天，随之而来的是蓝天和户外活动的机会。我们北京居民非常幸运，在城市里有很多公园和可以带孩子外出游玩的场所，不过在接下来的几个月的暑假里，让小朋友们安排丰富的活动也是一个挑战。

Megan Banerjee, YCIS Beijing Year 2 Team Leader and Western Co-teacher, has drawn up a lovely list of supplies and activities that will help keep your kids occupied and learning for hours on end throughout the summer months. If you’re careful, your kids won’t even realize all the learning they’ll be doing while still having a blast!

Megan Banerjee老师，北京耀中二年级的年级主任兼外教，做了一个非常可爱的活动列表，能帮助您的孩子在假期中有丰富的玩乐和学习安排。如果你足够细致，你的孩子不会注意到他们在玩耍的过程中依然在学习。

Sidewalk Chalk

人行道粉笔画

This activity is only limited to your child’s imagination.  Kids can draw their shadows in the morning and track the changes they notice throughout the day.  Have them design their own version of hopscotch and add in new elements, like addition sentences, to get your kids thinking! Also try having them create a car racing track with obstacles, bridges, and difficult turns.

这个活动只受到孩子想象力的局限，孩子们早上可以画出他们的影子，还可以在一天里观察不同的变化。他们还可以自己设计跳房子游戏，添加新的元素，比如增加一些新的句子，让孩子们开动脑筋！也可以让他们画出一个汽车赛道，设置障碍、小桥和急转弯等。

Marshmallow Shooter

棉花糖枪

These are really fun little toys that many grown-ups will remember making as kids themselves!  You’ll need some marshmallows, a plastic cup, and scissors. Cut off the bottom third of the plastic cup and dispose of it.  Snip the top off the balloon (not too much!) and tie it at the bottom.  Now, place the balloon on the cup and you’ve got yourself a Marshmallow Shooter!  Place the marshmallow inside, pull on the end of the balloon, release, and watch it fly! 

很多成年人都印象深刻的他们小时候自制的有趣玩具！你会需要一些棉花糖、一个塑料杯和剪刀。把塑料杯底1/3部分剪下来扔掉。剪掉气球的顶部（不用太多！）和杯子系起来。现在，把气球放在杯子上，你就做好了一个棉花糖枪！把棉花糖放进去，拉气球的末端，然后放开，看着它飞出！

Make this a little more educational by estimating the distance the marshmallows will fly and measuring to see who can make it fly the furthest the winner.

测量一下谁发射得最远就是赢家。

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