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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The excitement of the wakes coming to the village, watching them set up and knowing a summer evening would be spent walking around all the flashing lights and sounds of the funfair.
Screaming until I thought I couldn't scream anymore on the waltzer before finally getting hot donuts covered in sugar to walk home with just as it was getting late.

From the ages of about 11 to 16 I would have a Summer Pass for the local outdoor pool - my friends and I would spend hours playing in the pool and sitting on the grass on our towels chatting and eating sweets and drinks - anyone who was anyone was there as far as we were concerned!

Sadly it's not something I will be able to recreate as they filled in the pool and built houses on the site many years ago - it's such a shame - the town and community is all the worse for the loss of it.

Scootering and roller blading on the seafront of the beach by my grandparents house every summer. We didn't grow up by the seaside and it was incredibly special to us to spend six weeks of the year there being able to go whenever we wanted

Spend a day on the beach, with a bucket and spade, packed lunch a 99 and a ride on a donkey called Mabel. - just like I did at Blackpool in the 1980s

Playing in the garden - helping my Dad water the plants, sitting on deckchairs with my Mum, playing football & cricket, even doing shows with my friends!
We had a big garden and it holds good memories

Berry picking! Hardly any made it into the baskets and we were all full and covered in juice but it was lots of fun. I've taken my kids and it's just as fun as an adult :)

Turning our slide into a water slide with a hose and slippy plastic at the bottom!

I would spend a lot of time with my Nan and Grandad. They'd put a swimming pool up, turn the sprinklers on and serve ice cream floats, but one super memorable day which leaves me aching to be a child again was when my lovely Nan took me and my cousin on the bus to the beach. We had a picnic before heading off to the model village and crazy golf. She bought us crazy souvenirs, even though it was our home town. She played football on the common with us. We laughed non-stop. My Grandad joined us, along with my Mum and Dad, later in the afternoon. We went to the funfair, had candyfloss and finished the day eating chips with the waves lapping at our feet whilst the sun set.

It wasn't a day which would make you think "Wow! That was AMAZING!" but looking back, it fills me with joy (and sadness, my Grandparents died not long ago), and those are the memories I want to make with my DC. No big fancy show of theme parks, etc. Just a perfect day out with family.

A day spent catching spider crabs with old muscle shells - they popping them back into the lake at the end of the day. I can still feel that tug on my string and the little fella at the end of my line.

Summer of 76 - heatwave. News reports of people frying eggs on cars and pavements. We tried it ourselves on the bonnet of dad's car. He was not pleased.

Second thoughts...maybe I don't want to recreate that memory!

But that summer is redolent with sensory memories for me.

Best summer memory courtesy of my recently departed darling uncle. Windsurfing on a lake, we fell in got soaked. My uncle stepped on the surfboard fully clothed still in his farah slacks and hush puppies and whizzed round the lake showing us how it was done!
Giggling on the way home with a packed car full of cousins sitting in the car boot...it was the 80’s car seats not a legal requirement I’d love for my kids to have an uncle that cool and be as close with their cousins as we were.

We used to cycle to an isolated spot and have a picnic. I cannot wait until my kids are old enough to do this.

My favourite memories are learning to surf in Cornwall with my brother. We went most years. My dad bought us each a board and wetsuit and taught us. I can't wait for my little boy to be able to join in. My dad's still a keen surfer and he can't wait to buy him his first wetsuit!

Damming the stream near our holiday home!

Fish and chips on a pier.

Making a bird hide in the garden out of deckchairs and blankets and sitting in it for hours with a jug of home made lemonade watching the blackbirds and starlings.

My memories are camping in Cornwall, I still love the smell of airbeds - the rubber and certain zips sound like tent zips so I hope my Dd loves camping as much as I do. Just hot summers, beaches and icecreams. It's the best.

One memory that sticks in my mind is my dad made me a flower press when I was little and I absolutely loved it. I would spend hours collecting different leaves and flowers to press and dry out. I also liked to collect petals and try and make perfume.

Used to love going to the beach with my family, cousins, uncle and aunts. Big family reunion at the beach in the summer holidays. Would have my children to experience that with the next generation

Lovely old Devon every year. Such happy memories of larking about on the beach and then up to Somerset for the Radio One Roadshow!

My mum would make us a ‘party tea’ to eat in the garden after school. Loved it!

Playing outside after school and going in where Mum would make us an ice cream in a cone with a teddy bear wafer. It would be Cornish vanilla ice cream or Neapolitan.

Sunday outings with our dad, the weather seemed better in the 80s! After dinner we'd go on an adventure to give mum a few hours peace. I remember going to watch rally car racing, the arboretum, fruit picking, a lido, an out of town park... These were the best days of my life, I unfortunately don't have the support or means to recreate such adventures for my kiddies!

The excitement of morning in he summer holidays because there would be a couple of hours of kids TV. I don’t thinkchildren these days would understand how luxurious that was because they can watch whatever they want whenever they want now. My brother and I used to sit and watch whatever was on (The Wide Awake Club, Thunderbirds, Why Don’t You, Saved by the Bell) while my mum had a lie in. Then we’d spend the rest of the day playing in the garden and making dens with the patio furniture and coming inside to read if it got too hot. There was none of this pressure to take kids here there and everywhere every day and we were glad about that because the lazy days at home making
Yo your own entertainment we’re the best.

Building sandcastles carry bucket around the beach looking for the best shells and smoothest funky coloured pebbles. Rolling sliding running down huge sand dunes. The best memories for me are travelling on holiday airports fascinated me getting to wear your new travel clothes trainers, watching the planes fro the terminal arriving in the hot humid country ready for your holiday immersed in new cultures the kids club, going to the pool everyday glass bottom boat trips, eating the food from different t cultures.

Just chilling on the beach and being happy to do so. Sitting on the family tartan rug eating sandwiches, boiled eggs etc....Salty wind blowing through your hair, wrapping up in beach towels to keep warm (this was the UK), arriving back at the holiday house feeling exhausted but looking forward to shop bought fish and chips.