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KidsOutAndAbout Phoenix Newsletter 7/16/2026: Downward and Outward
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patience. To my young self, they were almost proof of magic. They were also my gateway drug into Italian food.</p><p> </p><p>Zeppoles led eventually to prosciutto and fresh mozzarella, risotto and gnocchi, pesto and puttanesca. Along the way, I learned that food has a vocabulary: crisp, chewy, silky, smoky, briny, bitter, fermented, caramelized. Knowing the names of flavors and textures helped me notice them more clearly, and knowing where dishes came from helped me see that food carries
geography, history, ingenuity, celebration, and memory. The more I tasted, the bigger the world became.</p><p> </p><p>Summer is the perfect season to help kids develop that kind of appetite... for food <i>and</i> discovery. Visit a <a href="https://phoenix.kidsoutandabout.com/category/organization-type/farmers-market?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-rochester-7-16-2026-downward-and-outward" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank">farmers market</a> and learn what grows nearby. <a href="https://phoenix.kidsoutandabout.com/category/organization-type/summer-pick-your-own-fruit-flowers?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-rochester-7-16-2026-downward-and-outward" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank">Pick berries</a> and notice how they taste when harvested just a second ago with
your own hands. Try the food truck serving something you’ve never ordered. At a <a href="https://phoenix.kidsoutandabout.com/category/activity-type/festivalfair?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-7-16-2026-downward-and-outward" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank">festival</a>, ask what country or region a dish comes from, what ingredients give it its flavor, and who traditionally makes it. Kids don’t have to like everything. Exploration still counts when the verdict is “Not for me.”</p><p> </p><p>As
tour guides to our kids’ universe, we can help them notice that food connects downward to the Earth and outward to people. Name the flavor. Name the texture. Name the place and the tradition. Then take another bite. Sometimes an entire world opens through one little bag of fried dough.</p><p><br>—<u>Debra Ross</u>, publisher of KidsOutAndAbout.com, co-author of <a href="https://theeclipseeffect.com?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-7-16-2026-downward-and-outward" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank"><i><u>The
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<div class="definition-parent"><div class="text-element"><p>Dear KidsOutAndAbout readers:<br> </p><p>In last week's column, <a href="https://www.kidsoutandabout.com/blog/making-makers?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-7-9-2026-poke-gently" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank">I wrote about the Humble Abode</a>, the kids-only hideout my sister and I created behind the giant azalea bush in our backyard. We dragged in chairs and treasures and made a little home in the hollowed-out
branches. At the time, I thought of it as something we had built. But of course, we didn’t create it from nothing. We were makers, yes, but we were making inside a world that was already alive.</p><p> </p><p>Summer is the perfect time for kids to experience that lesson up close and personal, with all their senses. The world is warm, green, buzzing, blooming, squelching, chirping, dripping, and growing almost too fast to track. Kids can smell lake water and tomato leaves, feel bark and moss
and mud, watch ants organize themselves with alarming competence, and notice that the same trail looks different after rain. Nature doesn’t need a lesson plan. It offers immediacy first: <i>I am here. This is real. Pay attention. </i>And then, quietly, it offers perspective.</p><p> </p><p>A child is legitimately the center of his or her own universe; we all are, from the inside. But Nature gently complicates that story. The robin is not singing for us. The creek does not hurry because we
are late. The sunflower turns toward the sun whether or not anyone remembers to admire it. Clouds, tides, weeds, and weather all proceed with their ancient business, reminding us that we belong to a world much larger than our schedules and preferences.</p><p> </p><p>That perspective should not make us feel small in a bad way, but instead help us feel rightly-sized. Humans have the wonderful ability to create, repair, improve, and beautify our little corners of the universe. But we do it
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Night at the O'Neil Rec Center</a><br>Tue, Jul 14: <a href="https://phoenix.kidsoutandabout.com/content/summer-break-art-camp-shark-bite-ages-6-12-pinots-palette-gilbert?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-7-2-2026-making-makers" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank">Summer Break Art Camp: Shark Bite (ages 6-12) | Pinot's Palette Gilbert</a><br>Thu, Jul 16: <a href="https://phoenix.kidsoutandabout.com/content/rumpelstiltskin-ages-5-great-arizona-puppet-theater-1?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-7-2-2026-making-makers" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank">Rumpelstiltskin (ages 5+) - Great Arizona Puppet Theater</a><br>Fri, Jul 17: <a href="https://phoenix.kidsoutandabout.com/content/maricopa-county-home-landscape-show-2026?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-7-2-2026-making-makers" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank">Maricopa County Home & Landscape Show 2026</a><br>Fri, Jul 17: <a href="https://phoenix.kidsoutandabout.com/content/teen-night-mgc?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-7-2-2026-making-makers" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank">Teen Night at the MGC</a><br>Fri, Jul 17: <a href="https://phoenix.kidsoutandabout.com/content/family-fun-night-fountain-hills-community-center-0?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-7-2-2026-making-makers" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank">Family Fun Night | Fountain Hills Community Center</a><br>Wed, Jul 22: <a href="https://phoenix.kidsoutandabout.com/content/district-splash-days-royal-splash-bash?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-7-2-2026-making-makers" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank">District Splash Days: Royal Splash Bash</a><br>Fri, Jul 24: <a href="https://phoenix.kidsoutandabout.com/content/family-play-date-glendale-parks-and-recreation?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-7-2-2026-making-makers" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank">Family Play Date with Glendale Parks and Recreation</a><br>Fri, Jul 24: <a href="https://phoenix.kidsoutandabout.com/content/holiday-heat-wave-pool-party-ajpr?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-7-2-2026-making-makers" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank">Holiday Heat Wave - Pool Party | AJPR</a><br>Sat, Jul 25: <a href="https://phoenix.kidsoutandabout.com/content/2026-az-sunrise-series-arizona-boardwalk?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-7-2-2026-making-makers" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank">2026 AZ Sunrise Series - Arizona Boardwalk</a></p></div></div>
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<div class="definition-parent"><div class="text-element"><p>Dear KidsOutAndAbout readers:<br> </p><p>When I was a kid, a giant azalea bush stretched across our backyard, exploding into glorious pink blossoms in early May. In summer, it became something even better: a secret hideout that my sister and I named the Humble Abode. We hollowed out the dead branches behind the bush and dragged in little chairs and treasures and our dollhouse family. The Humble Abode barely qualified as
a fort, and it wasn't even secret; I'm sure my parents knew when we were back there. But it was a great kids-only space.</p><p> </p><p>A few weeks ago, I wrote about five summer lenses through which to plan summer: music, motion, making, nature, and food. <strong>Making</strong>—the lens for this week—reminds kids that they are not merely consumers of the world, but contributors to it. They can push value into existence. They can turn sticks, cardboard, fabric, tape, mud, blocks, gears,
sand, and flour into something that wasn’t there before. Especially for younger kids, making with the hands gives the brain evidence. <i><strong>I did that. I made that. I can make things happen</strong>.</i></p><p> </p><p>Summer is perfect for this because summer has time and room for mess. Pull out the science kits, the rocket kits, the LEGO bins, the soap-making sets that arrived at Christmas and then sat politely in the closet. "Upcycle" old boxes, fabric, toys, crayons, paint, buttons.
Let your kids build backyard forts, fairy houses, marble runs, cardboard cities, obstacle courses, blanket tents, museum towers, and whatever else the day and their imagination suggest. </p><p> </p><p>Of course, glue will drip. Sand will migrate. The kitchen table may briefly disappear under invention. (If the clutter gets overwhelming, consider a trip or two to your local science museum or maker space to save your sanity.) After all, you can’t make omelets without breaking eggs. And
you can’t make a maker without giving a child some space, some tools, some trust, and permission to begin.</p><p><br>—<u>Debra Ross</u>, publisher of KidsOutAndAbout.com, co-author of <a href="https://theeclipseeffect.com?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-7-2-2026-making-makers" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank"><i><u>The Eclipse Effect: How to Seize Extraordinary Moments to Build Strong Communities</u></i></a></p></div></div>
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City of Peoria's All-American Festival 2026
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Playful Painting at the i.d.e.a. Museum
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2026 Guide to Summer Camps in the Phoenix, AZ area
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<div class="definition-parent"><div class="text-element"><p>Dear KidsOutAndAbout readers:<br> </p><p>The summer I was 5, my parents took our family to Cape Cod for a week. In Provincetown, we bought a kite, then headed to the dunes in North Truro, where my sister and I spent hours running full-tilt up and down the bare white hills. We’d scramble to the top, turn, and launch ourselves downward, legs windmilling, hair flying, lungs full of salt air and triumph. Invariably, we’d
fall, slap into the soft, sun-warmed sand, pop back up, and do it again.</p><p> </p><p>Tumbling down the dunes was gravity. Sand was friction. The kite tugging on our arms was air on the move. We didn't have words to describe these phenomena—we were little kids, not tiny physicists with notebooks. A decade later, my calculus teacher would give me the words and symbols to process motion conceptually, but experiences like this had already taught my body that I was an actor in the physics of
the world. My body understood.</p><p> </p><p>Summer is the perfect time for kids to learn motion from the inside out. Motion is in amusement park rides, in waves bobbing ducks and inner tubes up and down at the lake, in trains pulling you forward in one dimension and airplanes moving you through three. It’s in bikes and swings and Frisbees and trampolines and slip-and-slides, in tumbling through the days without realizing that learning is happening.</p><p> </p><p>As tour guides to our
kids’ universe, we can point gently: Feel how the swing slows at the top? Notice how the wave lifts you before it lets you down? See how leaning changes the bike’s path? But the point is not to turn summer into physics class. The point is to help kids notice how the world feels as they move through it. The equations can come later; now is the time for motion, and for the emotion that accompanies it. Summer’s gift is the body’s memory: wind, water, speed, balance, falling, landing, and getting up
to run again.</p><p><br>—<u>Debra Ross</u>, publisher of KidsOutAndAbout.com, co-author of <a href="https://theeclipseeffect.com?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-6-25-2026-motion-and-emotion" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank"><i><u>The Eclipse Effect: How to Seize Extraordinary Moments to Build Strong Communities</u></i></a></p></div></div>
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<div class="definition-parent"><div class="text-element"><p>Dear KidsOutAndAbout readers:</p><p> </p><p>I’m a sucker for songs in 6/8 time, no matter the music style. I don’t know why that ONE-two-three-FOUR-five-six swinging rhythm so captures me whether it’s fast or slow, but there’s no denying that it does. And I might not even notice this rhythm, but for one little fact: I’m a thoroughly mediocre cellist.</p><p> </p><p>I took cello lessons from age 8 to age 14; during
those years, I graduated from “truly bad” to “moderately acceptable,” at least acceptable enough to play in orchestras where my individual sound would be drowned out by the better kids’ playing. But even as unskilled as I was, I know I am happier as an adult for having played: I can understand music from the <i>inside</i>. I hear patterns and styles and instruments with far different ears than I would have had I not studied music early in life. Understanding what makes your heart sing helps
you be on the lookout for more, and that makes your life better.</p><p> </p><p>Summer is the perfect season to help kids grow their ears. Yes, check out the big open-air concerts from your local orchestra, municipal band, or jazz ensemble. But also keep an active ear out for the smaller stuff: free concerts in parks, weekly community series, festivals, buskers, church lawn performances, library gigs, and whatever band happens to be playing near the funnel cakes. When you hear something,
name it: bluegrass, salsa, soul, swing, zydeco, classical, funk, folk, rock, rap, mariachi. Kids don’t have to like everything, but knowing the names of things helps them understand what they do like, and gives them handles for finding more of it later.</p><p> </p><p>A couple of tips: If you know you're headed in the direction of something new, play a sample of the style before you leave so kids have a hook on which to hang the experience. While you’re there, help them notice one thing: the
bass line, the drummer, the singer’s breathing, the way people move. That will help the music swirl around in their minds long after the last note fades.</p><p> </p><p>Remember, music isn’t only on stages. It’s in carousels, movie scores, worship services, elevators, malls, ballparks, and the ice cream truck coming around the corner. So as tour guide to your kids’ universe, don’t ignore the invisible! Point your ears toward the music, tune everyone's radar, and grow.</p><p><br>—<u>Debra
Ross</u>, publisher of KidsOutAndAbout.com, co-author of <a href="https://theeclipseeffect.com?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-6-18-2026-growing-ears" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank"><i><u>The Eclipse Effect: How to Seize Extraordinary Moments to Build Strong Communities</u></i></a></p></div></div>
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create amazing family-friendly experiences. Take 3 minutes to <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KOAASurvey2026?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-6-18-2026-growing-ears" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank">choose your favorites</a> as your way of saying thank you... and use the list to build your summer bucket list at the same time! <strong>You have my personal and fervent thanks for your participation!</strong> <i>—Deb</i></p></div></div>
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<div class="definition-parent"><div class="text-element"><p>Dear KidsOutAndAbout readers:</p><p> </p><p>When I was homeschooling Madison and Ella, one of my favorite sanity-saving tools was the Theme of the Week. If the theme was "Birds," then yes, we'd go on a bird walk. But we'd also read <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trumpet-Swan-B-White/dp/006028935X?&linkCode=sl1&tag=kidsoutandabo-20&linkId=1a548f446e641b9bd18e12c26519e65f&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl&utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-rochester-6-11-2026-focus-on-five" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank">my favorite-ever children's book</a>, talk about the physics of flying and of colors, and probably also do some math and logic involving eggs and
baskets. The theme made ordinary learning feel like an adventure, but more important, it gave us a focusing tool: It helped the girls connect with what they were seeing and doing, and it helped me feel that we weren’t wandering randomly through our days.</p><p> </p><p>Summer planning can benefit from that same kind of gentle structure.</p><p> </p><p>Last week, I wrote about how summer is not supposed to be a guilt-inducing race to cram in every concert, splash pad, festival, hike,
camp, road trip, library program, ice cream stand, and sunset before the school buses roll again. Trying to grab everything is a good way to miss the point; instead, to plan the summer without overstuffing it, we need to consider the kinds of experiences that make our family feel more awake, connected, and alive.</p><p> </p><p>The <strong>five summer lenses</strong> I keep coming back to are: <strong>music, motion, making,
nature, </strong>and<strong> food</strong>. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Music</strong> helps kids hear the world differently and live what they love. <strong>Motion</strong> lets bodies teach what words cannot. <strong>Making</strong> reminds us that we can bring something new into the universe. <strong>Nature</strong> offers perspective and wonder. And <strong>food</strong> connects us to place, culture, and each other. Over the next
few weeks, I’ll address these one at a time—not as assignments, but as invitations. Even as the days fly by, a summer seen through some useful lenses can still be lazy, loose, spontaneous, and wonderfully imperfect.</p><p><br>—<u>Debra Ross</u>, publisher of KidsOutAndAbout.com, co-author of <a href="https://theeclipseeffect.com?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-6-11-2026-focus-on-five" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank"><i><u>The Eclipse Effect: How to Seize Extraordinary Moments to Build Strong
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you don't mean to lay that on us. We can't do it all, so it means we read about so much we can't do. Especially in summer."</p><p> </p><p>She was right, in one sense, of course. June and July are the most packed months of the calendar: Kids are out of school, families are ready for fun, and our communities respond. Each local organization gets to post its own events on our calendar for free, and many are featured in this newsletter, so what's happening is right there in front of
you.</p><p> </p><p>But I get it! And I hereby remove the guilt. <i>Ego te absolvo</i>. Of course, good families try to expose their kids to great things, but <strong>no one has the time, money, or energy to do it all</strong>. This stuff needs to be spread out over a childhood, not packed into a single summer, much less a single weekend. So <strong>make a family bucket list for Summer 2026</strong>. An easy way to do that is to <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KOAASurvey2026?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-rochester-6-4-2026-unpacking" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank"><strong>take our annual survey of the Top 20 Places to Take Kids</strong></a>, which is open through June 20; it has dozens of places to have fun this summer, even though you only vote for your top 3! And you should also use our <a href="https://phoenix.kidsoutandabout.com/content/50-ways-love-your-summer?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-6-4-2026-unpacking" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank"><i>50 Ways to Love Your Summer</i></a> article for ideas that require zero technology, zero travel, and zero dollars.</p><p> </p><p>Above all, go easy! Remember, summer is no time for grades! The only prize is the summer that's right for your family.</p><p><br>—<u>Debra Ross</u>, publisher of KidsOutAndAbout.com, co-author of <a href="https://theeclipseeffect.com?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kidsoutandabout-phoenix-newsletter-6-4-2026-unpacking" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank"><i><u>The Eclipse Effect: How to Seize Extraordinary Moments to Build Strong Communities</u></i></a></p></div></div>
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Pick Your Own Summer Fruit in and around Phoenix: Berries and more!
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