I just love summer. The past couple of years we have been creating a summer bucket list full of family activities to do together. By all means this is not the only stuff we have planned, but it gives us a good start. Here is some of what I hope to do with the kiddo this summer:
- Feed ducks -Completed-
- Visit a splash park -Completed-
- Jump around in an indoor trampoline park
- Make popsicles -Completed-
- Dig for dinosaur fossils in the sand table
- Play with the kid wash we created last year
- Make a water blob
- Sparklers -Completed-
- Have a barbecue -Completed-
- Make smores -Completed-
- Paint with mud
- Ant experiment
- Slide painting
- Squeeze sidewalk chalk
- Have a messy play date
- Make our own ice cream
- Draw on a sheet with fabric markers
- Have a themed movie night
- Host an ice cream party
- Eat a tomato from the vine -Completed-
- Visit lots of tall ships
- Zoo play date -Completed-
- Paint with rocks
- Pick strawberries -Completed-
- Pick blueberries -Completed-
- Practice riding bikes
- Learn to swim
- Run through the sprinkler -Completed-
- Revise our fairy garden -Completed-
- Create nature bracelets
- Great playground hunt
- Jump rope
- Play hopscotch
- Glowstick dance party
- Blanket fort
- Make a mud pie kitchen
- Tie dye shirts, pillowcases, everything
- Shaving cream slide
- Search for seashells -Completed-
- Make paper airplanes -Completed-
- Mentos and soda experiment
- Watch fireworks -Completed-
- Go to an outdoor concert -Completed-
- Go to a movie on the beach
- Make rainbow oobleck
- Go fishing -Completed-
- Get a library card
- Have a breakfast picnic
- Make sun prints
- Make a solar oven
- Pop painting
- Try a new fruit
- Visit a rose garden -Completed-
- Create a lava lamp
- Camp out in the yard
- Blanket fort -Completed-
- Go to the movies- kid's choice -Completed-
- Visit a new botanical garden
- Go to a butterfly house -Completed-
- Glow in the dark hide and seek
- Farmer's market -Completed-
- Our annual trip to the sunflower fields -Completed-
- Give the kiddo a camera and let him take pictures
- Make a volcano
- Play with frozen jello
I'm very excited to start crossing things off! I am hoping to spend much of the summer enjoying the outdoors and nature. We love exploring new places, and I'm hoping that this list will help motivate us to try new things. What is on your bucket list this summer?
