Find family fun this summer

Play outside

• Take the kids out for a night of mini-golf. Captain’s Cove Adventure Golf (812 Lafayette Road, Hampton, 926-5011, smallgolf.com) is now open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week, with varying rates for 18 holes of golf and selections from Blake’s Ice Cream. The courses are set in a nautical theme park with waterfalls, rushing rivers, coves and more. In Salisbury, Captain’s Corner (73 Main St., 978-465-5700, captainscornerminigolf.com) recently reopened for mini-golf. The cost is $6 for kids ages 12 and under and $8 for adults.

• Head to the beach and ride the waves. You can rent a surfboard or take surf lessons from a local surf shop like Cinnamon Rainbows Surf Company (931 Ocean Blvd., Hampton, 929-7467, cinnamonrainbows.com) or Summer Sessions (2281 Ocean Blvd., Rye, 319-8207, newhampshiresurf.com). Both offer one-hour private lessons for $65; half-day surfboard rentals for $25, wetsuit rentals for $15 and surfboard and wetsuit combo rentals for $30 to $35; full-day rentals for $35/$20/$40. Summer Sessions also offers one-hour private stand up paddle boarding lessons for $65 and paddle board rentals for $45 for a full day and $35 for a half day; and Cinnamon Rainbows also offers full-day bodyboard rentals for $10.

• Take a walk or hike some local trails on the Seacoast. Odiorne Point State Park (570 Ocean Blvd., Rye), currently open to the public, offers great views of the rocky ocean shores. Hiking trails and recreational areas are open, but playgrounds and indoor facilities remain closed. Odiorne’s parking lot is operating at 50 percent capacity, but advanced day use parking is available. The cost to enter the park is $2 for kids ages 6 to 11 and $4 for adults. Kids ages 5 and under receive free admittance.

• Take the kids fishing at a local body of water. In New Hampshire, kids under age 16 can fish for free and without a license all summer long. Visit wildlife.state.nh.us/fishing for information about where to fish and what kinds of fish you can catch, plus tips for fishing with kids.

• Go camping at a local campground in the state. As of last week, select state park campgrounds are accepting reservations for July and August. Camping reservations are currently being accepted at Hampton Beach State Park (South). Visit nhstateparks.org. Or contact your local private campground, such as Wakeda Campground in Hampton Falls (772-5274), which is currently open to all campers, with restrictions.

• You can watch a movie on the beach at Monday Night Movie Night on Hampton Beach. Movies are scheduled to start July 13 and are free. Weekly movie schedules are posted on the event’s Facebook page.

• Many farms are open for pick-your-own strawberries, which typically last through about mid-July. Check for availability and picking times at a Seacoast area farm, like Applecrest Farm Orchards in Hampton Falls (926-3721, applecrest.com) or Cider Hill Farms in Amesbury, Mass. (978-388-5525, ciderhill.com).

Indoor fun

• Satisfy your sweet tooth at a local candy shop. Lickee’s & Chewy’s Candies & Creamery (53 Washington St., Dover, 343-1799, lickeesnchewys.com) has recently reopened for walk-ins seven days a week (masks are required), and the shop continues to offer curbside pickup and shipping as well. The store features gummies, lollipops, chocolates and all kinds of other delicious treats. Sweet Hannah’s (81 Ocean Blvd., Hampton Beach, 601-6665, sweethannahs.com), which has also recently reopened, offers all kinds of flavors of salt water taffy, homemade fudge, handmade gourmet chocolates and nostalgia candies. While Huckleberry’s Candies (293 Lafayette Road, Hampton, 926-5061, huckleberryscandies.com) remains closed to walk-in customers, you can still order any of its products for curbside pickup, including homemade chocolate barks, fudges, nonpareils and more.

• Head to an arcade for some gaming fun, like Hilltop Fun Center (165 Route 108, Somersworth, 742-8068, hilltopfuncenter.com), which has more than 50 arcade games (plus mini-golf, go-karts, batting cages, laser tag and a rock climbing wall) and is open Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. There’s also an arcade at Dover Bowl Family Fun Center (887 Central Ave., Suite B, Dover, 742-9632, doverbowl.com) (plus bowling, laser tag and bumper cars), open Sunday through Thursday from noon to 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from noon to midnight; and the barcade Tokens Taproom (284 Central Ave., Dover, tokenstaproom.com) has family hours on Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

• Learn about New Hampshire marine life and science with live animals, hands-on exhibits and educational programs at the Seacoast Science Center (Odiorne Point State Park, 570 Ocean Blvd., Rye, 436-8043, seacoastsciencecenter.org), which will reopen on Saturday, July 4. Summer hours will be Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visitors must purchase admission tickets in advance for a two-hour time slot during those hours. Summer hours, now through October, are daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets cost $10 for adults; $8 for seniors age 65 and up, active duty military and veterans; $5 for kids ages 3 through 12; and are free for kids under age 3.

• Hit the ramps at Rye Airfield (6 Airfield Drive, Rye, 964-2800, ryeairfield.com), a 50,000-square-foot indoor skateboard park that recently opened to the public with restrictions in place. Training sessions are available to skaters of all ages and abilities, and are limited to nine people. Coaches will be on hand to offer feedback and shoot video, but no spectators are allowed. Sign up for a session online now, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, either from 1 to 3 p.m. or from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. The cost is $20 per skater and signups are currently offered in advance only.

• Shake things up with breakfast for lunch at The Airfield Cafe (9A Lafayette Road, North Hampton, 964-1654, theairfieldcafe.com), open daily from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. The menu features unique breakfast items including eggs and omelets like the Maryland crab cake benedict and the reuben omelet; pancakes and French toast like the Oreo pancakes and cinnamon streusel French toast; Belgian waffles and homemade crepes.

• Free Comic Book Day has been rescheduled and reworked as Free Comic Book Summer. From July 15 through Sept. 9, participating local comic book shops will put out five or six different free comics every week. The comics include superhero stories, television and move spin-offs, sci-fi adventures and more. Visit freecomicbookday.com for the full list of this year’s free comics and to find participating comic book shops in your area.

• The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire (6 Washington St., Dover) will hold its annual New Hampshire Maker & Food Fest virtually this year, with a new date of Saturday, Aug. 29. Up to 150 Maker Fest kits will be available for people to reserve online for free on a first-come, first-served basis, to be picked up at the museum prior to Aug. 29. The kits will include at-home projects, hands-on activities and more, all provided by the museum and participating makers. All videos, tutorials, demonstrations and performances will be available online through about a week after the festival. Visit childrens-museum.org or call 742-2002.