Share with Kinder Ice Cream the nostalgic summer memories you’d love to recreate for your DC

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We all have memories etched on our minds of the happy times we spent as children - before we grew up and had to start adulting. Summer days filled with light, joy and carefree fun. Maybe for you it was long afternoons playing in the back street, and the sound of the ice cream van, or perhaps it was a visit to the seaside where you spent happy hours building a sandcastle or discovering crabs in rock pools. It's these kind of memories that make childhood special, and perhaps now that you're a parent you're planning to re-create them for your own family. If so, Kinder Ice Cream would like you to share your memories and inspire others.

Here’s what Kinder Ice Cream have to say: "KINDER is now entering the world of ice cream, bringing to KINDER fans the care-free, summer feeling that ice cream stirs up, together with three tasty treats, for families to choose from – the delicious KINDER Ice Cream Stick, the convenient KINDER Ice Cream Sandwich and the iconic KINDER Joy Ice Cream."

What are the memories that stick in your mind and have a special meaning? What are the things your parents did that you'd like to do with your children? Maybe you built a kite with your mum and then took it to the park and watched it soar! Perhaps you remember your first trip to the cinema and the smell of popcorn and ice cream? Did you build a fort out of cardboard boxes in the garden with your dad and then take great pleasure in smashing it to bits?

If you have a favourite summer memory you'd like to re-create for your children, share it on the thread below and you’ll be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck with the prize draw!
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For me it was playing on the beach as a child looking in the rock pools for starfish and searching for the perfect shells then an ice cream with chocolate sprinkles, happy days

long walks and outdoor picnics in the local parks and paddling in the river :)

A time when it is safe for children to play outdoors and go on an adventure.

The long hot summer of 1976 when me and my brother were actually pretty young to walk the 3 miles to our local outdoor pool with no grown up. We'd have a picnic so we could stay all day, but Mum was pretty skint so we'd collect coke bottles and cafe trays to cash in the deposit and buy ice-cream!

Going to hailing island camping. Some local friends had never had a holiday so we hired a mini bus between us , took our massive old canvas tent (one that had metal poles in circa 1970) It was such great fun and it was perfect weather. I have loved camping ever since.

Getting on our bikes and just cycling in whatever direction we fancied :)

I would love to recreate days in the Lake District learning to skim stones

Playing outside on bikes for hours and hours during the summer holidays!

Long days at the beaches of North Devon - picnics, sea swimming, rock pooling, finding shells, climbing rocks, flying kites...

Camping holidays, I have lots of lovely memories and would love to re-live them

Building dams on the stream with my brother on sorching hot days.

Packing picnic supplies in the car and driving across the moors, stopping to picnic in a nice scenic spot.

My favourite ever memory growing up was going to Disneyland. It was so so magical, i was only 9 so you can imagine how magical it was for me! Seeing the characters, the parade, the rides... it was just an amazing experience i would love to give my children one day. x

My most wonderful memory was of my first trip out with my dad on my own, he took me to the cinema to watch 101 Dalmations and I was so excited that I talked all of the way through.
I remember the smell of the popcorn and the feel of the chairs and how little I was sitting there next to him. How huge the screen was!!
When I take my little ones now, I always watch their little faces and revel in their excitement...and even though (like my dad) I am watching a film that I probably find awful, I know that we are making those same memories together and it just feels wonderful.

My parents bought a touring caravan, and every Friday evening we'd pile in the car, and go off for a weekend adventure. It only slept 4, and we were a blended family of 6, so 2 of us got to sleep in a tent alongside the caravan - we all wanted to be the ones in the tent! It was such a big adventure.

We didn't have much money, so we always went to basic camp sites, and took our own food - but that was part of the fun. We'd have bbqs, and hot dogs on the beach at sunset - it was amazing!

rock pooling on beahces for the day

Going on a seaside holiday with extended family; Grandparents, aunts, cousins and pets!

Running out first thing in the morning. Playing with the 'gang' on muddy fields. Two rival 'gangs' having grass fights and water pistol wars. Climbing trees, cycling to the brook (strictly forbidden!). Going home when the sun went down. Laughing. Sunlight.

We're doing it. Rock pools, sandcastles, shells throwing pebbles in the sea!

Making dens in the long grass in the field behind our house (in reality they probably looked like crop circles from above!)
Playing 'jump the stream' down our lane aged 7 by myself and always ending up walking home soaking wet because I slipped.
Playing baseball in the field once the haybaling had been done. We helped with the bay ling too

Long summer days spent with a group of friends who lived in my street; if you couldn't find us we would be at one of my friend's homes, water fights in the garden and camping out overnight when it was warm enough.

Inpromptu picniks. Bread was cut and then buttered with a bank card. We had some kind of juice and biscuits (which were never normally allowed). All eaten by the side of the road during a day out/holiday.

Caravan holidays and arcades.

Bike rides to the local nature reserve to birdwatch and to pond skim. Looking at newts and frogspawn and catching Sticklebacks with our nets. Getting away from traffic noise and streetlights so you can enjoy a good starry sky and actually hear nature.
We've bought a tandem attachment so me and my son can do the same this summer.

Staying in what was called 'a wee button Ben' in the Scottish highlands, swimming in the river and watching herds of deer appear at dusk only a few feet from the cottage.