Summer Bucket List

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Are you looking for fun ideas & activities to keep your kiddos busy this summer break?  Here are 80+ kids summer bucket list ideas– enough for each day at home!  Get a copy of your freebie worksheet.

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School is wrapping up soon for our 3 kiddos as well as us as teachers.  We love sitting down together as a family and coming up with ways to keep busy & entertained during our summer break.  We calculated that we had about 70 days at home as a family this summer.

Perhaps you are a teacher yourself and are about to spend the summer months at home with your kids too?

Today, I’d like to share with you all our kid summer bucket list ideas that we developed.  I hope that it might help your family stay busy, active & able to enjoy the summer break together.  

Don’t forget to grab your FREE printable summer checklist & start planning an awesome summer too!  Pop it on your fridge and you are ready to go!

80+ SUMMER BUCKET LIST IDEAS FOR FAMILIES

INDOOR ACTIVITIES:

• Read a book
• Do some math sheets
• Make cookies
• STEM activities
• Make popsicles
• Build a blanket fort
• Learn a new card game
• Have a movie marathon day
• Play videogames
• Do some Just Dance videos
• Spring clean school paperwork
• Go through clothing & take out what doesn’t fit
• Donate
• Play videogames
• Make photobooks
• Build Lego
• Have DIY Ice Cream Sundaes
• Art & Craft Projects
• Do a science experiment
• Make your own recipes
• Have a fancy dinner
• Make friendship bracelets
• Do a good deed
• Play Hide & Seek
• Have an ice cream party
• Have a pajama day
• Family Workout
• Redecorate your room
• Tie Dye T-shirts

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES:

• Go swimming
• Go paddle boarding
• Have a picnic
• Roast Smores
• Have a campfire
• Eat watermelon
• Catch fireflies
• Go rollerblading
• Have a water balloon or water gun fight
• Go biking
• Visit different playgrounds
• Go for a nature walk
• Sleep outdoors
• Play backyard games like cornhole, bocce ball or croquet
• Roast hotdogs
• Paint some rocks
• Draw with sidewalk chalk
• Learn some skipping skills
• Build a Sand Castle
• Have a lemonade stand
• Grow flowers
• Star gaze
• Fly a Kite
• Hula Hoop
• Play basketball
• Enjoy a scavenger hunt around the neighborhood
• Have a bonfire
• Create an outdoor obstacle course
• Play frisbee golf
• Run through the sprinklers
• Ride scooters

PLACES TO VISIT:

• Play at a beach
• Go to a mini-golf course
• Play baseball in the park
• Visit Grandparents
• Go to a National Park
• Visit with friends & family
• Go fishing
• Go to a Farmer’s Market Stand
• Go on a road trip
• Watch fireworks
• Go yard sale shopping
• Collect shells at a beach
• Go to a ropes course
• Go to a skatepark
• Visit some local festivals
• Enjoy a concert
• Visit an amusement park
• Go to the library
• Check out a museum
• Go to the zoo
• Hit up a waterpark
• Go to a ball game
• Go to a Drive-in Movie

Well, there you have it!  Enough activities to fill up your entire summer holiday!  Which activities would your kids look forward to the most?

Have a wonderful summer & enjoy all the fun family activities to bring happiness throughout this season.

Enjoy!