School’s out in Coweta County, which means parents across the area are beginning the annual summer tradition of hearing “I’m bored” approximately nine minutes after breakfast.
To help everyone survive the next couple of months of snack requests, wet towels, destroyed sleep schedules, and children somehow entering and exiting the house 47 times per hour, we’ve put together 50 things to do with the kids this summer.
Some are wholesome. Some are chaotic. Most will probably end with somebody needing a shower.
From splash pads and pool days to backyard disasters disguised as “core memories,” here are 50 ways to keep the off-school kids entertained this summer in Coweta County.
- Give them glow-in-the-dark paintball guns and have them play under the weird blue lights outside the Summer Grove Publix
- Take them to a splash pad and spend three hours yelling “WALK”
- Give every kid a frozen Capri Sun and watch them impatiently stab it
- Do an Escape Room but pay the game master to break the puzzles and turn off the timer
- Let them make slime (at their friends house)(and it stays there)
- Tell them “we have Disney World at home” and take them to Full Circle Toys
- Pray to the Alan Jackson Mural for Luke Bryan to lose his voice
- Play on your cellphone while you give them a lecture about how much time they spend on their tablets
- Moth hunting in the costume shop at Newnan Theatre Company
- Make a Josey, Young, & Brady realty sign for your barbie dream house
- Make a garage band. Get booked at PorchFest
- Put hot wheels on the PTC golf cart paths and watch the carts slip around (Home Alone style)
- Go to Lynch Park Pool. Once. Trust me
- Teach them “classic summer games” like “sunburn ball” and “mosquito marks”
- Give them sidewalk chalk and let them help make body diagrams for Newnan PD
- Let them run a lemonade stand and charge $40 to spike it. Profit
- Tame a Squirrel to fight off “my sweet innocent baby girl / pitbull”
- Create 100 bracelets for Newnan Market Day (it’s just a yellow string with a cheerio on it)
- Build a pillow data center in the living room (Tim Ryan may make a house call and knock it down)
- Tell your kids they’re going to “make memories” this summer, then show those memories are you whose wet towel is on the hardwood floor
- Take them bowling and watch one child celebrate a score of 17 (this is your favorite child)
- Spring clean dad’s stuff now that he moved out 😦
- Sign them up for a summer camp where they’ll learn leadership, confidence, and how to lose one water bottle per day
- Go mini golfing and discover your sweet child becomes Tiger Woods without the personal demons
- Have them give away toys to the less fortunate / Turin residents
- Take them to the library and ask them to read the entire Hunger Games series until they’re scarred for life
- Let them sleep in a tent outside while showing them a slideshow on how the homelessness epidemic got out of control
- Give them water balloons made of PTC hot tub water. Throw the balloons at angry white people who start chasing after you
- Bring them to a farmers market and convince them “a big squash” is just as delicious as a Butterfinger
- Clean pieces of cereal out of the cracks and crevices of your SUV (allow extended days for this)
- Have them create a “summer movie” on your phone. Do not let them scroll through your image gallery
- Take them hiking to the highest peak in Newnan (the water tower)
- Take them to a WWE show. Forget that WWE is garbage now. Take them to an AEW show. Scar them for life.
- Buy a kiddie pool and fill it with Sprayberry BBQ sauce
- Take them to Rock Salt and let them try samples for four hours
- Let them play hide and seek while you watch Newnan Time with Harold videos behind the couch
- Spend all day planning a wholesome family activity only for them to get one single mosquito bite
- Skating at the new skate park. Also there first time smelling weed
- Roast marshmallows, have the Newnan FD on speed dial. Blame it on the neighbors.
- Go to Vacation Bible School
- Have a “no screens for 24 hours” challenge until 10:30 AM
- Take them to the trampoline park and watch high school dunk on ’em all afternoon
- Make Mayor James Shepherd puppets and put on a “I’m a liberal” puppet show
- Send them outside to “touch grass” and receive a detailed legal complaint from the HOA about the length of your grass
- Picnic in the middle of a roundabout (it worked for me!)
- Let them decorate frosting with sprinkles (might be a cupcake down there somewhere)
- Take them to the playground and get trapped in a 40-minute conversation with a semi-attractive dad who is gauging your interest in his open marriage
- Tell them they can pick one toy at Dollar Tree
- Start a family garden for the squirrels
- Grow mustaches together
Newnan Time with Harold 