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100 Days Of Summer! Stay Busy With the Ultimate Guide!

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By SCMK/NCMK May 26, 2014
Summer is almost here and NCMK and SCMK have teamed up to bring you 100 ideas and day trips to keep the kids busy all summer long! Did we miss something? Leave us a comment! Make sure you like this post on Facebook to share it with your friends and bookmark this page so you can keep coming back all summer long! Here are the first 50 ideas and check back next week for 50 more! 

Have Fun! 

1.     1.     Take a family bike ride down the Greenway today!

2.     Take your kids roller-skating for free all summer long!

3.     Summer movies 1 dollar or less for kids!

4.     Build a Fairy garden

5.     Take your kids bowling for free!

6.     Tiger World

7.     Visit Dan Nichols Park today!

8.     Play in the Fish Fountain at The Green!

9.     Mint Free Days

10.Third Annual Party in the Park at The Mint Musem

11.Library Events

12. Park Spray Grounds

13.Cane Creek Park

14.Lake Norman State Park

15.Badin Road Drive in Theater

16.Take a carriage ride!

17.Go to the South Park Mall

18.Go rafting at the Whitewater Center

19.Festivals at the Whitewater Center

20.Free concerts/live shows every Thursday Riverjam at Whitewater center

21.Watch planes take off and go to Aviation Museum

22.Summer Shootout Series Tuesday at Motor Speedway .Children under 13 are free

23.Linville Gorge Wilderness

24. Freedom Park

25.Nature Museum

26.UNCC Botanical Garden

27.Ride the Trolly and visit the Trolly Museum

28.Have lunch at Pikes Old Fashioned Soda Shop

29.7th Street Market

30.Performances all summer long at Bearden Park  

31.Crowders Mountain

32.Grandfather Mountain

33.Frank Lisk Park

34.Charlotte Shakespeare Festival

35.Duke Energy Explorium

36.Summer Pops at the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra

37.Knights Game

38.Carowinds

39.Charlotte Hounds

40.Discovery place

41.Victory Lane

42.Carolina Raptor Center

43.Lazy 5 Ranch

44.Festival in the Park

45.PNC Music Pavillion Concerts

46.Time warner cable shows

47.Kids bowl free at Strike City

48.Plan a dinner cruise with the family on Lake Norman

49.ImagineOn

50.Studio Movie Grill at the Epicenter