The past two weeks, we’ve had more rainy days than sunny ones in New Hampshire.  Sometimes it’s been drizzly all day.  Other days we’ve had sunny mornings and thunder storms throughout the afternoon.  Generally, too, the temperatures have been lower, too chilly for comfortable beach days.

What do you do when your beach days, whether in a backyard pool, a community pool, the nearby river, a lake, or the ocean, turn into weather that curtails outdoor activities?

Here are some suggestions.  You can find books with ideas for more or give directions for some of these.

1. Take a trip to the library and get more books to read
2. Play story related games using imagination
3. Put on your raincoat or simply splash in mud puddles in shorts and bare feet
4. Get out the board games and card games
5. Write stories or plays
6. Go hiking if it’s only misting
7. Have fun cooking
8. Explore various types of art
9. Organize photos and have fun scrapbooking
10. Learn how to do magic tricks

Share with us some of your rainy day activities or how you spend beach days when it’s rainy.

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(c)2008 Mary Emma Allen

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10 Activities for Beach Days When It Rains

 Why don’t you write a story about some of your beach adventures? At least keep a journal and write down the memories. I found an old diary I kept when I was a teenager.

In glancing through the summer entries, I see many referring to swimming in our brook, as well as at the Recreation Center pond, a community gathering place about five miles away from our home.  Names of friends are there, too, and help remind me of summer beach fun.

Keep a record (mom or youngsters or both) of your summer days, and the fun you have at your beach, wherever it is.  Add some pictures and make a scrapbook of your adventures.  My grandchildren and I have pasted photos of summer fun days into scrapbooks and written stories about them.

Or you might want to write a story like I did about Dubbins, the little elf that Cousin Ina said lived at our swimming hole on the farm.

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(c)2008 Mary Emma Allen

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Writing About Swimming & Beach Adventures

 Since this is Beach Week at One Book Two Book (as well as at Camp Weary Parent), I wondered what you’re doing at the beach this week.

I mentioned yesterday my memories of visiting the beach at the ocean.  However, you don’t have to be near the sea.  Your beach may be a local river, community swimming pool, the beach at the lake, your own backyard pool or brook. 

Do you have special books to read about the beach and the activities there?  Do have games that you play in the water?  Are you taking swimming lessons?

Learning to Swim

When I was growing up on a farm, my sister, brothers, friends and I swam in the meadow where two brooks met.  It wasn’t very big, but large enough and deep enough for us to learn to swim.  As I got older, I frequently took a book with me.  It became a place to escape and read between the day’s summer farm chores.

I still recall the enjoyable times we had there.  When my mom’s Cousin Ina visited, she strung a hammock over the water, attaching it to a tree on either side.  She lay and relaxed in the hammock.  Often she read. We children swung in it. 

Cousin Ina said the rippling brook made her think of little elves’ voices as she rested.  From that memory evolved the stories I wrote about Dubbins the little elf.  One of these appears in my book, Tales of Adventure & Discovery.  I’ll tell you more about Dubbins soon.

Char, at Camp Weary Parent, has beach activities all week, some you can do at home and some in the water.

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(c)2008 Mary Emma Allen

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What Are You Doing at the Beach this Week?