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The What Can I Do? Can – FREE Printable

This is the perfect idea to help your Happy Home have the best summer ever!!

The What Can I Do? Can!

First, you need a can! Any can will do.  I used a can leftover from the Happy Buddy’s rice cereal days.  It had a really cute lime green lid.

Then I covered it with some summer-themed scrapbook paper from the Dollar Bins at Target and a label.Next comes the fun part!

Cut up the 6 sets of cards – you can download them at the bottom of this post – and place them in your What Can I Do? Can.

Pick one card whenever your Happy Home needs an adventure during those long, hot summer days and follow the instructions!

Each card has a mission (Do This) and an opportunity for you to take a picture (Snap This) of you doing something specific pertaining to the mission.  The point is that with each mission you complete, you will take a picture and then add the picture to a special summer photo album!  So hit up Wal-Mart for a cute, inexpensive album and get started!

By Labor Day you will have an album full of fun – plus the memories of an unforgettable summer!!!

The cards are broken into 3 categories to help you organize when and what you will do.

Fun At Home (cheap excitement around the house) – Magic in the City (requires some traveling around town) – And Operation Others cards (these are my favorite because they inspire the Happy Buddies to think about others – one of God’s greatest commands for us!)

If you’d like even more ideas for your What Can I Do? Can, check out this list of 100 Free Things You Can Do With Your Happy Home This Summer over at Digital Reflections.  Simply jot some suggestions down on slips of paper and toss them in your can.

Positively Splendid and The Crafting Chicks also have SUPER CUTE cards you can print and add to your What Can I Do? Can for FREE!

There is no limit to the fun you CAN do with your What Can I Do? Can!

If you’d like to download the cards, all I ask is that you LIKE the FAIRY on FACEBOOK.  Thanks!

DOWNLOAD your FREE What Can I Do Can Cards HERE!

And go HERE for a FREE set of BLANK What Can I Do? Can Cards.  You can fill in the blanks with your own summer fun!

And if you didn’t think it could get any better, I made you a FREE Printable label for your can! 🙂

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Happy What Can I Do? Can-ing! 🙂

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Julie Brasington is a Preschool Director, wife of a South Florida Worship Pastor and mom of 3 boys. She writes at Happy Home Fairy where you can find easy craft ideas, FREE printables, simple recipes, holiday fun, thoughts on raising kids, and encouragement for moms.

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14 Comments

  1. Tiffany

    May 30, 2011 at 10:14 am

    Way cute! I am making one for me and a friend! Thank you so much for sharing! My Happy Buddy and I are going to have so much fun this summer.

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    • Happy Home Fairy

      May 30, 2011 at 4:25 pm

      That is such a GREAT idea! Last summer the Happy Buddy gave What Can I Do? Cans to everyone who invited him to their bday party that summer! It was always a hit!!!

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  2. Lisa

    May 30, 2011 at 11:18 am

    Thank you!

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  3. Eddie

    May 30, 2011 at 2:59 pm

    These are great! Thanks for a wonderful idea – I always have a huge supply of empty coffee cans around, so this is perfect! I’m going ot share the link to your post on my blog. Hope that’s ok.

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    • Happy Home Fairy

      May 30, 2011 at 4:24 pm

      I’d love that! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!

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  4. Christina

    May 30, 2011 at 9:13 pm

    I’m stopping by from 24/7 MOMS and I love this idea. I plan on implementing this, thanks!

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  5. Lowri McNabb

    May 30, 2011 at 11:49 pm

    What a fantastic idea – thanks for sharing!
    I will definitely be doing this with my kids!
    Lowri
    http://papervinenz.blogspot.com/

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  6. Kacey

    May 31, 2011 at 12:02 am

    I really love your blog, if you knew me you would have laughed at my comment (if you didn’t) I’m kinda awnry, not too religious, and I say pretty much whatever pops into my head! It’s a bad quality. Love your blog, really. I admire your happiness.. don’t tone down anything!!!

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  7. Camille

    May 31, 2011 at 11:46 am

    Thanks for sharing!! This is awesome! I will be doing this with my kids and nieces and nephews all summer!
    I am your newest follower- and I would love to have you stop by my blog and follow back if you would like to!
    Camille @
    SixSistersStuff.blogspot.com

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  8. Alicia

    May 31, 2011 at 7:26 pm

    Hey! I love this idea and am printing as we speak! I have already advertised your “Best Summer Ever!” event and I think I will link this project too! Thanks for all the inspiration!

    http://www.through-my-is.blogspot.com

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  9. Natalie

    May 31, 2011 at 9:33 pm

    This is fabulous and I just shared a picture and link to it on my site! Hope that’s okay! Here’s the link if you wanted to take a look! Thank you SO much for sharing this idea and the printables! http://aturtleslifeforme.blogspot.com/2011/05/summer-fun-lists.html

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  10. Ginny of Sunflowers at Home

    June 10, 2011 at 12:43 pm

    Love this and I have already printed them out and created our can. Was wondering if you are going to offer some blank templates so we can add some of our own ideas or create cards to go with your other activities (thinking of the marshmallow building specifically!)?

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  11. Tirzah Mosier

    September 23, 2011 at 5:38 am

    This is a good idea

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  12. Ellie Pederson

    June 17, 2012 at 1:11 pm

    Wonderful ideas to use when the grandkids stay over.

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