Spring Bucket List for Kids - Free Family Fun 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. 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 and Joe.) 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.

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

Time bound items:

1. Start a new St. Patrick's Day tradition.
2. Play Minute to Win It for St. Patrick's Day.
3. Read a St. Patrick's Day book.
4. Have a rainbow scavenger hunt.
5. Make a rainbow craft.
6. Make a mosaic rainbow.
7. Grow a good luck plant.
8. Observe Lent.
9. Go to an Easter Egg Hunt.
10. Celebrate Passover with a special seder.
11. Color Easter eggs
12. Make an Easter Egg craft with buttons.
13. Start a new Easter tradition.
14. Make the kids hunt for their Easter baskets.
15. Bring the Easter story to life.
16. Hide plastic Easter eggs in the backyard.
17. Make egg geodes.
18. Make a Mothers' Day present
19. Look for baby birds

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All spring items:

1. Plant a vegetable garden (raised bed tutorial here)
2. Plant flowers
3. Smell flowers
4. Pick a bouquet
5. Press flowers
6. Start a new habit
7. Go for a bike ride
8. Play at a park
9. Go to a festival
10. Start a compost pile
11. Shop at a farmer's market
12. Visit a petting zoo
13. Fly a kite
14. Go on a picnic
15. Sign up for a CSA
16. Read a picture book together in the hammock
17. Start a chapter book read aloud
18. Have a living room dance party
19. Have a campfire in the backyard
20. Host a cook out
21. Make dirt pudding
22. Bird watch
23. Wash the car
24. Have a no screens day
25. Bake cookies
26. Volunteer together
27. Visit a museum
28. Visit a farm
29. Try a new restaurant
30. Jump in puddles
31. Pop some popcorn and have a movie night
32. Get up early and go to breakfast (hopefully with Pappy like I used to do years ago)
33. Learn archery
34. Make a fairy garden
35. Raise and release butterfliesCLICK TO GET THE LIST
36. Raise and release ladybugs
37. Take a walk around the lake
38. Send a postcard
39. Plan a weekend getaway
40. Teach the kids badminton
41. Have a family game night
42. Write a handwritten note to a friend
43. Look at old photos
44. Make a blanket fort
45. Do a random act of kindness
46. Make a big pot of cheeseburger soup on a chilly day
47. Feed the birds
48. Train for a 5K
49. Find some chicks and pet them
50. Catch tadpoles
51. Have a poetry tea party
52. Go to a paint your own pottery studio
53. Rent a canoe or rowboat
54. Go bowling
55. Spend a day at the zoo
56. Dig for worms and...
57. Go fishing
58. Play frisbee
59. Shop at a flea market
60. Plan a camping trip for summer
61. Watch the sunrise
62. Watch the sunset
63. Play outside
64. Draw on the driveway with sidewalk chalk
65. Learn to skip rocks
66. Draw in a nature journal
67. Play in the rain
68. Pick strawberries
69. Eat strawberry shortcake
70. Go out for ice cream
71. Paint kindness rocks and leave them somewhere
72. Blow bubbles
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73. Make homemade lemonade
74. Make homemade limeade
75. Visit a butterfly house
76. Climb a tree
77. Fly paper airplanes
78. Make mud pies 
79. Make a flower garland
80. Visit a professional garden
81. Write a letter and send it through the mail
82. Eat al fresco
83. Visit the grandparents
84. Make gratitude journals
85. Pick dandelions
86. Try a new recipe
87. Make a new craft from my Crafts to Make board on Pinterest
88. Play hide-n-seek
89. Go to a garage sale
90. Make Jello jigglers
91. Have a nature scavenger hunt
92. Bake & decorate a cake
93. Make dream catchers

Grab the free Spring Bucket List for Kids printable below.

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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.