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.

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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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I spent all my days at my grandparents, mid 70s. I had a proper canvas tent on their garden and I can still smell fabric warmed by the sun. My granddad would take me and their neighbour's granddaughter to the local park and we'd get a Mivvi (?) ice cream from the kiosk. A particular 1970s memory is them taking me to the nearest big town and treating me to some white and yellow plastic clogs.
It was all so bloody simple back then.

Days at the beach. Searching rock pools, being buried in the sand with sandy sandwiches followed by donuts and ice cream

One of my favourite memories that I would love to recreate was walking down by the river with my grandparents all together and just enjoying the company and the sun shine and then later stopping to share some chips. It wasn't fancy but I have always cherished those days

My best holiday memories as a child were camping in the back of our car, we used to drive from Germany to England (and back) a few times a year. We would stop off at campsites on the way in different countries, where my dad would put all the seats down flat in the car and we'd all snuggle up in sleeping bags and duvets.

Staying at my grandad's caravan on France, swimming and cycling all day , chips and bbq for dinner, staying up as long as we wanted. Bliss!

Summer evenings after dinner running through the garden sprinklers with my sister. Chasing each other and giggling lots.

Sounds silly but I loved being able to go outside after tea and playing for another few hours in the summer. Also loved day trips and picnics at st Andrews. Im taking my kids there this summer. Can't wait.

Swimming in rivers, playing out in the street until the sun went down, caravan holidays and making new best friends wherever we went.
We never went abroad and yet summertime always seemed to be warm and last forever!

Going fruit picking with my nan and making Jam with her or going for a bike ride on my own. So many wonderful memories, a day at the seaside.

We used to have a week in a house in Bournemouth and go to the beach every day. We did this for around 3 or 4 years . When I became a teenager, I moaned like hell because I would rather be home with my friends. That makes me feel really sad looking back.

I would like to hire a house within walking distance of the beach and stay there with DD and go swimming in the sea every day. We do take a short break to Paignton each year and if the weather is nice we manage some beach time.

Camping in a tent. I used to love it even if it rained. The smell of canvas and damp grass in the morning. Getting up a bit chilly and our holiday tracksuits to keep warm. Still working on my other half as he doesn’t like the idea of tents at all but I think it’s a kid rite of passage!

Playing tennis for hours and hours at the gite we used to rent every summer in France. Then we’d have Nutella on croissants, which we NEVER had at home!

Swimming every day, playing outside for hours we just had to be home for tea

I don't think anything could ever beat the simplicity of splashing around in the paddling pool set up in the back garden, the grass wet with mud from the overflowing water that was just a bit too cold to be comfortable. I always seem to remember days like these going hand in hand with cheap bottles of bubbles and tiny plastic water guns from the tiny toy stand at the newsagent and tubs of ice cream from the ice cream van in the evening. Perfect. 

My mum would take us for long walks in the forest and tell us stories. I’ve started doing it with my own DC already.

We had several Bramley apple trees in our garden and the lawn was always covered in wind falls. As a family we used to play cricket with the apples that were beyond cooking use. The splat sound the apple made and the spray of apple pieces everywhere was heaven to us as small children (the stickiness, not so much).

Afterwards we would watch the huge variety of garden birds from the kitchen window as the gorged themselves on the fruit.

I'd love to recreate a summer I remember as a child, it seemed to be hot every day for weeks ! So it would be a huge paddling pool full of water, a slide going into it, water pistols to have water fights with and a tent to sit in for meals, drying off, before splashing, sliding and squirting until the sun set.

Playing with the slippy slide in the back garden.

Making fences out of buckets and broomsticks and riding our imaginary horses around the garden, neighing, cantering and jumping fences a la Hicksted.

spending the day by a river near my nans house, paddling and playing under the bridge. Having a picnic and waving to the hikers passing :)

Our summer was spent at all the parks, we would take a packed lunch and spend hours happily there. We would also visit the seaside for days out, with fish and chips and ice cream before we went home.

We also spent a lot of time in the garden with our toys. I don’t remember spending much time indoors so I try and recreate that for my children and get them outside as much as possible in the summer months.

My favourite summer memory is going to the nearby local beach with my grandparents. They would make us all a picnic lunch and a flask of coffee for my gran. Pack the car full to the brim with windbreaker, blankets, bucket and spades and blow up yellow dingy and spend the whole day on the beach, crab hunting, rock climbing and making sandcastles with my grandad while I my sunbathed watching us all.
Love to take my own children there now .

Growing up in Ireland, our summer holidays were long - 9 weeks! I loved the long, long sunny days, playing out with friends. As a child of the 70s, the dangers of the sun were not understood and I also remember being frequently sunburnt and slathered in calamine lotion afterwards

Rockpooling for me, definitely. I lived near the beach as a child and was so sure-footed! I’d like that for my DC too.

I remember being offered a voucher to try this ice cream. Then giving all my details as requested in exchange for the vouchers. Then being told that they had ran out of vouchers. Data mining thieves.