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    Summer Bucket List for Kids - Free Family Fun Printable

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

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    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.

    In 2017, I decided to make a bucket list for each season starting with winter. You can grab my winter bucket list and spring bucket list and fall bucket list elsewhere on this site. Now that summer is right around the corner, I am sharing my summer bucket list. This list is for elementary and possibly middle school kids. Head over here for a summer bucket list for tweens and teens.

    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.

    I've also created a similar summer bucket list just for tweens and teens, so if you have older kids, go over and check that one out too. I've shared a photo scavenger hunt for tweens and teens, too.

    Summer Bucket List for Kids - Free Family Fun Printable

    Here's what's on the printable summer bucket list:

    1. Create your own summer bucket list
    2. Excavate frozen fruit
    3. Do some learning outside
    4. Make suncatchers
    5. Make sidewalk chalk paint
    6. Explode sandwich bags
    7. Catch fireflies
    8. Make a balance beam
    9. Go see fireworks
    10. Throw whirlybirds off the deck
    11. Make a leaf scrapbook
    12. Go on a hike
    13. Water blob
    14. Play miniature golf
    15. Make root beer floats
    16. Wash the car by hand
    17. Participate in the library's summer reading program
    18. Participate in the library's summer letterbox program
    19. Outdoor scavenger hunt
    20. Photo scavenger hunt
    21. Make a map of the backyard
    22. Have a carnival at home
    23. Go for a boat ride
    24. Go bowling
    25. Pick raspberries
    26. Pick blueberries
    27. Pick strawberries
    28. Make homemade jam
    29. Swim in the lake
    30. Play bocce ball
    31. Glow stick hide & seek
    32. See a drive-in movie
    33. Make root beer sherbet
    34. Paint the lawn with flour
    35. Make flag t-shirts
    36. Paint with ice cubes
    37. Make banana splits
    38. Go to a petting zoo
    39. Make a nature collage
    40. Tie-dye shirts
    41. Water balloon catch
    42. Visit the amusement park
    43. Visit a water park
    44. Have a picnic
    45. Make dirt pudding
    46. Grow a garden
    47. Bake something with fresh cherries
    48. Play in the creek
    49. Go to a park
    50. Build a campfire
    51. Cook dinner over the campfire
    52. Make s'mores
    53. Go to a baseball game
    54. Make fireworks art
    55. Make patriotic fruit kabobs
    56. Make astronaut pudding
    57. Float in a pool
    58. Make a butterfly craft
    59. Make homemade popsicles
    60. Make a Father's Day gift
    61. Go out for ice cream
    62. Go for a bike ride
    63. Make a jellyfish suncatcher
    64. Make a mini ocean aquarium
    65. Make beachy pudding cups
    66. Make under the sea graham cracker snacks
    67. Play with water beads
    68. Have a water gun battle
    69. Visit a splash pad
    70. Finger paint
    71. Feed the ducks
    72. Go fishing
    73. Have Christmas in July, complete with Christmas cookies and Christmas music and a special meal - and maybe even a couple of gifts!
    74. Marshmallow shooters
    75. Nerf gun battle
    76. Go stargazing
    77. Watch the sunrise
    78. Watch the sunset
    79. Build a sandcastle
    80. Make a homemade pizza
    81. Grill a pizza
    82. Go to a free concert
    83. Go on a road trip
    84. Listen to an audiobook
    85. Float down a river in an inner tube
    86. Ride a ferris wheel
    87. Have a water balloon fight
    88. Start a lemonade stand
    89. Play in the sprinkler
    90. Play in a public fountain (only with permission)
    91. Fly a kite
    92. Blow bubbles
    93. Hunt for cloud animals
    94. Fly paper airplanes
    95. Play in the mud
    96. Go to a museum
    97. Go to a yard sale
    98. Play frisbee
    99. Play hide and seek outside
    100. Visit the library
    101. Take photos of flowers
    102. Slip n slide
    103. Workshops at Lowes & Home Depot
    104. Visit a pet store
    105. Jump rope
    106. Play hopscotch
    107. Visit a fair or carnival
    108. Build an obstacle course
    109. Create a music video
    110. Start a YouTube channel
    111. Play with shaving cream
    112. Make a fairy garden
    113. Take a nap in a hammock (this is the one we have and LOVE - plenty big enough for 3 kids at one time)
    114. Eat dinner al fresco (you would know that means outside if you read Fancy Nancy)
    115. Paint your faces
    116. Try a new food
    117. Start a rock collection
    118. Do a random act of kindness
    119. Visit a farmer's market
    120. Visit a flea market
    121. Make no bake cookies
    122. Make frozen yogurt
    123. Visit the zoo
    124. See a waterfall
    125. Rent a paddleboat
    126. Have walking tacos
    127. Learn something new
    128. HAVE FUN!

    Grab the free Summer Bucket List for Kids printable below.

    This summer bucket list for kids and families is an easy way to plan for your long summer at home. It's full of ideas for spending time together as a family, and each item is simple enough to put together in an afternoon. Print it out and get started making memories today!

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    1. LM says

      July 20, 2018 at 11:55 pm

      Love all your ideas!

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