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Terri Thompson
Before I share our 2012 Summer Bucket List, I wanted to give you some ideas for your own. Here are 200 fun and simple ideas for summer fun. Some are indoor ideas and some are outdoor ideas. But, all would be fun for the entire family. Have fun making your summer bucket list!
- Go Swimming
- Go Camping
- Go on a hike
- Make homemade lemonade
- Make popsicles
- Make homemade ice cream
- Go stargazing
- Plant a garden
- Go to a farmer's market
- Go to a pick-your-own farm
- Go to the zoo
- Go to an amusement park
- Go to a "new to you" park
- Go on a bike ride
- Play hopscotch
- Do splat painting
- Play Red Light Green Light
- Play tag
- Have a family board game night
- Have paper airplane races
- Host a cook-out
- Make ice cream sundaes
- Bake a pie
- Go on a scavenger hunt
- Make story stones
- Make garden stones
- Walk on a balance beam
- Have an outdoor movie night
- Experiment with baking soda and vinegar
- Make a rain gauge & measure the rain
- Make a mud pie
- Make a wormery
- Climb a tree
- Decorate flower pots
- Start a rock collection
- Catch fireflies
- Read books outside
- Go to story time at the library
- Go on a color palette nature walk
- Keep a nature journal
- Go bird watching
- Make homemade play dough
- Make pool noodle hurdles
- Put shaving cream on the slide
- Make nature wands
- Fly a kite
- Run a race
- Go on a picnic
- Paint with patio toys
- Visit a pond
- Visit a garden
- Build a sand castle
- Play with ice
- Make land art
- Make dirt cake
- Dig for dinosaurs
- Go to a museum
- Visit a nature center
- Make butter
- Hunt for bugs
- Play paintman
- Build a boat
- Make your own board game
- Do science experiments with candy
- Paint with your mouth
- Do a raised salt painting
- Trace shadows
- Make a balloon sculpture
- Play with sticks
- Play with frisbees
- Play tic tac toe on the sidewalk
- Make suncatchers
- Write a story and illustrate it
- Make smoothies
- Learn to hula hoop
- Make s'mores
- Cook over a camp fire
- Eat watermelon
- Make strawberry jam
- Make a fruit salad
- Make fresh salsa
- Hunt for sea shells
- Have a water balloon fight
- Look for shapes in the clouds
- Be a nature photographer
- Go to a splash park
- Watch a fireworks show
- Make your own slip & slide
- Go for a walk on the beach
- Go on a sound hunt
- Go to a parade
- Watch the summer Olympics
- Have a lemonade stand
- Make bird feeders
- Have a puppet show
- Paint with bubbles
- Make homemade bouncy balls
- Go to a baseball game
- Play mini golf
- Write a letter
- Make homemade cards & mail them to faraway friends or relatives
- Make a marble run
- Paint on cardboard
- Paint a self-portrait
- Watch the sunset
- See what happens when you add salt to ice
- Have a root beer float
- Make coffee filter butterflies
- Make friendship bracelets
- Participate in your library's reading program
- Eat fresh peaches
- Make rainsticks
- Swing as high as you can
- Learn about a different country
- Try a new food
- Build a fort
- Make tie-dyed socks
- Put on a play
- Slide down a water slide
- Go to an outdoor concert
- Bake cookies & deliver them to a neighbor
- Have a dance party
- Make giant bubbles
- Grill pizzas
- Make finger paints
- Play beach ball volleyball
- Examine a tidal pool
- Memorize a poem
- Do a sink or float experiment
- Tell ghost stories
- Play Pooh Sticks
- Go to a local festival
- Go pretend fishing
- Make nature mandalas
- Play hide & seek
- Learn to paint like Monet
- Play with water beads
- Play book bingo
- Play with cloud dough
- Have a party for no particular reason
- Make a terrarium
- Play t-ball
- Have silly races
- Play with a sensory box
- Go for a walk at twilight
- Learn how to use real tools (hammer, screwdriver, wrench, etc.)
- Go to an art museum
- Make recycled crayons
- Make super hero capes and pretend to be a super hero
- Paint with cars
- Make ribbon wands and dance outside
- Make old-fashioned silhouette pictures
- Fill a sketch book
- Make frozen banana pops
- Make a life-size robot
- Learn to sew a simple pillow
- Make campfire cones
- Make egg carton finger puppets
- Watch carnations change colors
- Make your own compass and learn how to use it
- Go to a local festival
- Make an Olympic logo painting
- Build Lego towers
- Make a cork-print tree
- Make a hat out of newspapers
- Make your own jump rope
- Make a homemade alphabet book
- Make raisins dance
- Examine nature with a magnifying glass
- Learn a few jump rope rhymes
- Learn a new card game
- Paint with fly swatters
- Paint with water color spray paint
- Make your own paper dolls
- Have a 3-Legged Race
- Work a jigsaw puzzle
- Go geocaching
- Make hand print fireworks
- Make stick men
- Mail a hug
- Learn to do a cartwheel
- Dive off a diving board
- Paint the sky
- Make a twig & twine raft
- Paint with golf balls
- Create a fairy garden
- Build a ramp for your toy cars
- Play Follow the Leader
- Swim in a lake
- Swim in the ocean
- Be a tourist in your own town
- Play flashlight tag
- Make a cd hovercraft
- Set up a pretend potion lab
- Go on a road trip
- Wash the car
- Have a sleepover
- Go to a movie
- Read a chapter book together as a family
- Make a scrapbook of all your summer fun!
Did I forget anything? What would you add to this list?
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32 comments:
Make a water wall/ Ball run http://familylicious.com/water-wall-ball-run/ and make a Kid Wash (think car wash but with kiddos) http://familylicious.com/kid-wash/
I didn't see Frozen Water Color Painting either and this is a summer go to for us http://familylicious.com/frozen-watercolor-painting/
And Frozen sculptures in the water table http://familylicious.com/sensory-table-iceberg-melting/
What about Alien Bubbles they are fun and when you pop them in your hands they are really cold http://familylicious.com/alien-bubbles-science/
wow! Great list... I'm tired just reading it lol. We will definitely be adding some of these to our summer bucket list. Pinning so I don't loose track of these ideas :)
200?! I am so impressed. Loved it, pinned it and I'm excited to actually do it. Thank you!!
Wow! What a fantastic list! I had a friend ask for bucket list ideas on her facebook page today. I am so sharing this with her!
Great list and thanks for including some of our ideas!
Love it! We made one to but not as many things only 50....lol.
Great list!
We have a copper fire bowl on the patio and our family absolutely loves to have cookouts. We do this just about every Saturday night of the summer. We roast hotdogs (has to be on a stick) followed by marshmallows. Then we sit and enjoy the evening, listening to the birds, followed by watching all the stars appear. (First one to see a star gets an extra marshmallow!) It's a peaceful time together with our family, and doesn't cost a thing. Some day our children will look back on these times together with great fondness.
Wow - longest list ever! We will not be bored this summer for sure. I'm think one or two a day? Am about to put on Curly Birds facebook. (and thanks for including our lemonade stand!)
Thank you for including my Splat painting! I've had lots of hits today!
Awesome list!!! thanks for the link. :)
Seriously- this must have taken you a long minute! Great post!
Such great ideas!
Thanks so much for including our Raised Salt Painting idea. This list is amazing! We're just about to go into Winter here but I've still pinned this list and we're going to work our way through it even in the cold weather!
So fun! I love your ideas! We'd love for you to join the party at Saturday Show & Tell on Cheerios and Lattes! I know my readers will like your ideas as well! :)
Have a great weekend!
Mackenzie
http://www.cheeriosandlattes.com/saturday-show-tell-12-summer-series-preview/
wow that list will keep you busy. Some great ideas.
Thats a great list. Thanks for sharing all wonderful activities!
What a great list of fun ideas! Thanks for including our rainsticks
So many great things to try out this summer! Thanks for sharing our rock collection!
I love your list but had to add Make a New Friend, Go Fishing and Go on a Roadtrip.
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Thanks for linking our colour palette :)
Please feel free to link your list to our linky of summer bucket lists (http://glitteringmuffins.com/2012/05/30/summer-bucket-list-2012/)
nice list alot of great ideas bu you can also add catch fireflies thats always fun
I would also like to take such journey. But I would most likely want to learn to surf as well in the middle of the journey I had planned.
Okay, time to secure my kids sun hats and sunblock because today, it's "summer-fun-family" day!
I might have to put our skywatcher telescope to good use because I miss our family stargazing! These activities are outstanding!
I might take the kids on the lake house and enjoy family bonding there! I love when their face light up every time they hear this.
While it might sound biased (since it's a man's point of view), it should really be a top thing to bring the family out for a baseball game this spring break. It'll be a great bonding experience, especially for the kids.
Thanks for these fun ideas for summer. I am taking the kids to a cross country drive to visit relatives and some of these activity will help drive away boredom and tantrums.
That could be an overwhelming bucket list for summer. Maybe I will need to create one for my own. I'll start with 50 things I want to do for spring.
Wow! I'm going to make a list for when I get bored this summer. How long did writing this take you?
Puddle jumping...
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