Cool off with these 30 Fun and Easy Tips:
- Run through the sprinkler with your kids, get out the slip and slide, the super soaker or the kiddie pool (add ice cubes).
- Have a water balloon fight.
- Plug in the fans, add streamers. Mind your fingers! Put a bowl of ice in front of the fan for added cooling power.
- Place a wet sheet in the open window. As the breeze passes through, you'll cool the room a bit. Frugal wind chill!
- Go swimming. You don't sweat underwater!
- Take a cold shower.
- Freeze your shower gel before using.
- Have your spouse or your kids run an ice cube up and down your back.
- Stand in front of the freezer case at your local grocery.
- Re-visit your basement (clean it out while you are down there cooling off).
- Go ice skating.
- Visit an air conditioned mall, library, or museum.
- Head to a local cave where it is always about 54 degrees F.
- Buy lemonade from the kids in your neighborhood.
- Make your own sun tea, popsicles, or fruit smoothies.
- Drink your coffee iced.
- Think cool - tell yourself you are comfortable. Mind over matter really works!
- Visit your local ice-cream parlor.
- Wear linen, a straw hat, light colored clothing.
- Watch "Cool" Movies: Happy Feet, Cool Hand Luke, Ice Age.
- Listen to "Cool" Tunes: Ice-T, Vanilla Ice, Ice Cube.
- Read a "Cool" Book: Scott of the Antarctic by David Crane, Into Think Ari by Jon Krakauer.
- Put the top down ANYWAY!
- Eat a salad dinner, picnic style.
- Wash your car - Water hose fight!
- Stay hydrated.
- Sleep.
- Exercise in the very early morning.
- Close the damper on your fireplace to keep out hot air
- Adopt a Cooling yoga position-seated forward bends, roll your tongue into a tube, and breathe in and out through it; pressing your chin to your chest as you breathe in. Check www.yogayak.com and search for cooling breath for a video.
By Diana from Prospect, KY
