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).

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Camping tips to the seaside with fish and chips on the sea front.

Going to the funfair on a cool summer's night. Roller-skating with my friends around the estate.

My parents and I used to go picking fruit, beans and peas every summer at a local farm as we lived in the country - we always used to eat some fruit whilst picking it! And I remember my mum blanching the veg and making jam afterwards and eating it later brought back happy memories of summer.

We had a caravan holiday every year as a family, with granny too In the early years. Now we take our boys on caravan holidays and do the same things. The beach, amusements and barbecues.

Playing by a large pond in Spain covered in lillypads, with flowerbeds round the outside for shade, trying to get as close as we could to the tiny frogs, as soon as you got close no matter how quietly and stealthy you crept up behind them they always jumped in before you got to them!

Summer holidays seemed to last forever. Days over the park, visits to museums, building sandcastles on the beach on the family holiday. Rainy days spent indoors round nans reading great books, creating robots out of loo rolls, baking cookies and making up detective games with little notebooks with my cousin. Playing football and cricket with my grandad and building camps by the brook with the local kids.....heaven

Going to the penny arcades followed by freshly made doughnuts on the sea front.

Big family picnic in the local park, listening to the band playing on the band stand. There must have been 30 of us there, just relaxing in the sun, playing fetch and chase with the kids and sharing yummy food and drink

Australia, we used to play jn the pool on our 'pool ponies' an inflatable u shaped pool toy.

Sitting on Sheringham beach on warm summer evenings, drinking ginger beer and eating "Skips". For a week each year, age 5-9 (it was always warm and sunny)!

The summer memories that I remember the most are just simply playing outdoors and being adventurous kids. The 6 weeks holiday was endless and the days lasted forever.

Crabbing in the rock pools at the seaside! We can't recreate the absolute MOST fun part of our summer adventures to the seaside as it involves being crammed into the back of a transit van with all my cousins and rolling around all the way to the seaside... the police would have a field day with that nowadays!!!

We lived in a village and used to do the newspaper round for extra money in the summer holidays. I have a very vivid memory of my sister, my brother and I heading out of the house at 6am in T shirts and shorts to make our way to the back entrance of the paper shop, before anyone else was up and the world was still quiet except for birdsong. When we got there, the newsagent would let us each choose an ice cream from the fridge before sending us out with a big satchel of newspapers each. Bit shocking to realise this was nearly 50 years ago now!

Picnics picnics picnics and more picnics; long walks in the countryside and playing frisbee or swing ball; going rockpooling and crabbing. You forget about the things that annoyed the adults: the ants, the wasps, the traffic on bank holidays, your parents arguing when your mum forgets to look at the map for 3 minutes.

The one thing we can’t replicate is sending DS off to stay with grandparents for a few days which is sad as those stays were great. Unfamiliar foods and rules, lots of days out, going to fairs or parks and getting to go on scary rides because Nan and Grandad believed you when you said “We always go on rides like this!”

long school summer holiday where the Sun was always shining. Each day the neighbourhood kids would play out: pom pom 123, rounders, cricket either in the street or up the park. We would bring snacks and bottles of squash and spend all day out without any mobile phones. happy days. Made many good friends.

Went to Cornwall with the boys when they were younger, and their favourite moment was going crabbing and exploring the rock pools.

My mum used to pack up the car with duvets and pillows and drive my brother and I to Brighton on those “boring” summers evenings.
We’d go to the pier, play on the penny machines, eat chips from the paper, then my brother and I would fall asleep on the way home.
Best time ever!

Driving home from the beach and stopping off for a fish supper (chippy). Afterwards my mum would fold down the back seat and let us fall asleep lying down under a duvet. No seatbelts! I remember being rocked to sleep by the motion of the car, glimpsing amber lights overhead as I drifted off to sleep.

We will do the days at the beach and the chippy on the way home, but I'll stick with the seatbelts!

Sand in my sandwiches on the beach, glorious days of building incredible things out of sand - my dad always was brilliant at sand castles and sand art. Rock pooling with a net and bucket - I enjoyed these things so much I would love to recreate them with my own kids.

Low water fishing for prawns with my Dad

Going rock pooling for hours on end, finding mussels and cooking them on the beach over a barbecue, ate more sand then mussels on occasion but was great fun.

Playing outside all day as the street was full of families. We’d get kicked out after breakfast, called back for lunch and finally back in for tea. I miss that freedom that I don’t think DS will get: our road is busy and there aren’t many families, but he gets to play with friends all day at holiday club when he goes so I don’t think he feels he’s missing anything.

Making dens and climbing trees in the woods, then collecting fire wood was brilliant fun. Then trying to be patient enough for sausages and potatoes to cook on the resulting fire!