Printable Spring Bucket List for Kids & Families

Over 100 ideas for kids, teens, families, and adults! Includes crafts, recipes, and lots of fun activities indoors and outdoors. Includes printable.

Many years ago, I made a summer bucket list for like five years in a row, except I never ever called it a bucket list. But it was the same thing.

I decided to make a bucket list for each season starting with winter in 2017. You can grab my winter bucket list for kids and families here and fall bucket list here. Now that spring is right around the corner, I am posting my spring bucket list.

As a full-time working mom and a mom blogger, I have to be really intentional about spending time with my kids. If I'm not intentional, our days and weeks would slip by, and I wouldn't have spent any real time with them.

I mean, we're in the same house, maybe even in the same room, but I'm writing on my blog or talking to their dad or working at my job, and they're watching tv or playing Legos or Barbies or something else. On their own.

If I'm not careful, my kids and I can lead these parallel lives, and I don't take the opportunity to pour into them at all. Like I said, I have to be intentional about it.

Hence the need for a bucket list for every season of the year. We can choose from the items on the list when we have little pockets of time or as opportunities come up. It will give us a base, a starting point from which to make our time together fun and rewarding.

As an aside, I am super intentional about scheduling fun. I make sure we do something fun together, all four of us, every single week, no matter what. (Well, unless they go on a weekend trip. Then I plan something fun for just me.) I have it written into my planner, I save money for it out of every paycheck, and I almost always make it happen.

I have read studies that say children make incredible memories on vacation. We do take vacations, usually one big one per year with a couple of weekends away.

But what if we can build those incredible memories in little bites sprinkled all throughout the year? Would that not add up in their little memory banks to a childhood well spent? I sure hope so.

If you're looking for a way to get your kids to take charge of their own entertainment, click over to this post where I have created a unique, card-based list of 150 of the best screen-free activities for elementary kids up through teens.

This year, I made a Spring Bucket List for the four of us. Here's what's on it:

Time bound items:

Start a new St. Patrick's Day tradition.
Play Minute to Win It for St. Patrick's Day.
Read a St. Patrick's Day book.
Have a rainbow scavenger hunt.
Make a rainbow craft.
Make a mosaic rainbow.
Grow a good luck plant.
Observe Lent.
Go to an Easter Egg Hunt.
Celebrate Passover with a special seder.
Color Easter eggs
Make an Easter Egg craft with buttons.
Start a new Easter tradition.
Make the kids hunt for their Easter baskets.
Bring the Easter story to life.
Hide plastic Easter eggs in the backyard.
Make egg geodes.
Make a Mothers' Day present
Look for baby birds

All spring items:

Plant a vegetable garden
Plant flowers
Smell flowers
Pick a bouquet
Press flowers
Start a new habit
Go for a bike ride
Play at a park
Go to a festival
Start a compost pile
Shop at a farmer's market
Visit a petting zoo
Fly a kite
Go on a picnic
Sign up for a CSA
Read a picture book together in the hammock
Start a chapter book read aloud
Have a living room dance party
Have a campfire in the backyard
Host a cook out
Make dirt pudding
Bird watch
Wash the car
Have a no screens day
Bake cookies
Volunteer together
Visit a museum
Visit a farm
Try a new restaurant
Jump in puddles
Pop some popcorn and have a movie night
Get up early and go to breakfast (hopefully with Pappy like I used to do years ago)
Learn archery
Make a fairy garden
Raise and release butterflies
Raise and release ladybugs
Take a walk around the lake
Send a postcard
Plan a weekend getaway
Teach the kids badminton
Have a family game night
Write a handwritten note to a friend
Look at old photos
Make a blanket fort
Do a random act of kindness
Make a big pot of cheeseburger soup on a chilly day
Feed the birds
Train for a 5K
Find some chicks and pet them
Catch tadpoles
Have a poetry tea party
Go to a paint your own pottery studio
Rent a canoe or rowboat
Go bowling
Spend a day at the zoo
Dig for worms and...
Go fishing
Play frisbee
Shop at a flea market
Plan a camping trip for summer
Watch the sunrise
Watch the sunset
Play outside
Draw on the driveway with sidewalk chalk
Learn to skip rocks
Draw in a nature journal
Play in the rain
Pick strawberries
Eat strawberry shortcake
Go out for ice cream
Paint kindness rocks and leave them somewhere
Blow bubbles
Make homemade lemonade
Make homemade limeade
Visit a butterfly house
Climb a tree
Fly paper airplanes
Make mud pies
Make a flower garland
Visit a professional garden
Write a letter and send it through the mail
Eat al fresco
Visit the grandparents
Make gratitude journals
Pick dandelions
Try a new recipe
Make a new craft from my Crafts to Make board on Pinterest
Play hide-n-seek
Go to a garage sale
Make Jello jigglers
Have a nature scavenger hunt
Bake & decorate a cake
Make dream catchers