2020: The year vacations were cancelled…

2020 – the year that made us stop, think, and be in the moment with our families despite a pandemic.

So many vacations, long weekends, concerts, and sporting events were all cancelled. Once all things were streamed on television, we turned to any activity in the house to improved and upgrade.

Our vacation is now staycation – but that doesn’t mean it cannot be memorable and fun for the whole family!

Anyone else a fan of themes? Say you or your daughter are huge Gilmore Girls fans…how to make a Staycation memorable? Take every day a trip to one of these fictional places – visit Luke’s for coffee; watch a classic black & white movie at the Black-White-Read Bookstore – Pippi Longstocking anyone?- or take many days at the Gilmore House – fancy dinner, fancy birthday party, talking about Kropogs? All can happen over any kind of time that you would have off and want to entertain your brain. Consider adding word search, Bingo, and even scavenger hunts for your time together. Pinterest is always a great resource for ideas and especially on themes.

What if you are looking at educating while you are looking to build your Staycation? One of the best educational – and can support local teachers – is Teachers Pay Teachers. Talk about anything and everything that is built for teachers – but you can buy the activities (again works wonders with themes or concepts) that then the profits go to the teacher who designed the activity. You can search for grades from Preschool through Twelfth grade.

While there are so many options for your Staycation be sure you keep one thing in mind before starting anything: Look at your current inventory and pull from what you already have! There are many ideas out there in which you practically have to hire a carpenter to build a new space for all of your ideas and stuff. Michaels has an AWESOME booklet for recycling paper tubes and crafting with them. You can find this here. 

Here are basics to get starting on planning your Staycation this year:

1. Were you supposed to go on a trip this year that was cancelled?
2. Where is your dream vacation that you would like to go to?
3. What is making this dream vacation spot your choice?
4. Picture yourself there – what are you seeing?
5. Plan, plan, plan!
6. HAVE FUN & RELAX

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