Summer Fun - in a fun way!

I have discovered a new favoruite website. Wordle. You can use it to make subway art. You know the fun abstract shaped random words? I used it to make a Summer Fun list for our family.

I took a list of summer fun to do: crafts, trips, foods, activities, and more for indoor and outdoor fun on rainy and sunny days and created my own Wordle :-)

I printed it on plain printer paper and will be framing it in a regular glass frame to make it dry erasable.

Here are a few things to know about Wordle:

• You can't save from the site, but you can "print screen" or use your snipping tool and paste into a photo editing program to print. See their FAQ for more info.
• A space means a new word. So "Summer Fun 2012" would print in 3 separate places, but "SummerFun2012" prints together, so plan accordingly with your words. All of mine are Capitalized OnTheFirstLetterOfEachWord. :-p
• If you want certain words to stand out (mine are summer fun, Freitas Family, and to a lesser degree, Get new Library Card, Rainsticks, etc), List the word more than once. The more you repeat it, the bigger it is. My word list looked like this:

FreitasFamily

FreitasFamily

FreitasFamily

FreitasFamily

SummerFun2012

SummerFun2012

SummerFun2012

SummerFun2012

Farmer'sMarket

Farmer'sMarket

SprinklerFun

SprinklerFun

Bubbles

Bubbles

SidewalkChalk

SidewalkChalk

FairyHouse

FairyHouse

GetNewLibraryCard

GetNewLibraryCard

NakedEggs

BeachTrip

CampOut

Smores

PuppetTheater

TieDye

Sunprints

SeashellGarden

HammeredFlower

LeafPrints

PaintedRocks

PaperBagWindSock

Hopscotch

FlowerPinwheels

Kaleidoscopes

PressedFlowerArt

TissuePaperButterflies 

ClothespinDolls

VacationMemoryJars

TinCanStilts

RainSticks

RainSticks

Checkerboards

BulletinBoards

FriendshipBracelets

RainbowJello

FruityLemonade

NatureWalk

Swimming

WaterFight

MovieNight

SockPuppets

TeaParty

Picnic

PIZZA!

TourCapital

VisitMuseums

Windchime

Each stands for a thing to do, go to, make, experiment with, etc.

• You can choose custom colors. Colors is the ONLY attribute you can change without the format changing. So make sure you like your shape and then set your custom color pallette.
• Play with all the nifty buttons & the menu links at the top of the button - It's COOL!
• Have fun!

See my Summer Fun 2012 page to follow along as we complete our list!

I also put them in scraps of card stock in a jar so she can pic then randomly for us! Today we get...

I guess she's not telling? :-)

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