There's a fantastic woman in our community who volunteers three times a week by putting on a summer program for the kids. She brings a craft and snack to the park's gymnasium and plans games and activities. One day they did bubbles, one day they fed the ducks. She always runs around with them and tires them out, and it's just been a really fun, cheap way to do something fun. Last week she coordinated the coloring craft around firefighters because the park had some firemen come to the park and show the kids fire safety and firetrucks. It was Nolan's first day out of the house after being sick and he was pretty excited!
Dylan and Nolan running around:
Cameron, Nolan & Dylan playing hoola hoops with Miss Tabitha, who is the coordinator of the program:
Coloring a Dalmatian fire fighter:
This was the smoke house. The firemen talked to the kids about fire safety and explained that smoke rises. So if there's smoke in your house you need to crawl to safety (outside preferably). I thought Nolan would be freaked out, but he was one of the first kids who jumped up and crawled into (under) the smoke and outside to safety. 
He got a fire hat and some other goodies. They let the kids sit in the firetruck, but by then Nolan was pretty tired and it was just too overwhelming and big. He would say he wanted to, but then we'd get up close and he would say "no!"
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