Summer Bucket List & Printable Activity Sheet – Fun With Kids!
Are you looking for inspiration for Summer fun? My kids are about to be released from the walls of school and they are looking forward to the Summer months. I’m looking forward to having them home, but there is a little anxiety about how they will stay entertained.
Sometimes the best way to conquer boredom is to squash it before it starts. My kids and I thought a Summer activity checklist would be the perfect idea.
Here is a Summer Activity List for Kids that was made to squash boredom, make memories and leave them feeling like this was the best summer ever!
Download the free printable here!
- Play in the Sprinkler
- Write letters to our friends and family, then mail them!
- Have a garage sale and set up a lemonade stand
- Nature walks – make a scavenger hunt out of it
- Go to the library
- Catch fireflies at night
- Go to the pool, again and again and again
- Go to the zoo
- Ride Bikes – this can even be with the whole family
- Visit the park and have a picnic
- Go camping in the backyard
- Bakecupcakes with mom!
- Cook smores over a firepit
- Attend a free kid’s workshop at Home Depot
- Go on a road trip
- Take a vacation
- Visit a theme park
- Plant a garden
- Go fishing
- Play in a sensory bin with shaving cream
- Build a waterpark in your backyard with PVC pipe
- Have a popsicle party with all of your neighbors
- Wash the car outside in the driveway
- Blow bubbles outside
- Visit the beach
- Play on a Springfree Trampoline!
- Make homemade ice cream in a bag
- Have BBQ get togethers with friends and family
- Play Frisbee
- Run through the sprinkler
- Have sleep overs with friends
- Make popsicle stick art
- Pick flowers and put them in a vase
- Make crafts with alphabet cereal
- Water balloon fights
- Make sock puppets
- Watch fireworks
- Go to the lake
- Make homemade play dough
- Make magazine collages of your favorite things
- Make an indoor sidewalk
- Create fairy jars and capture a fairy!
- DIY Sidewalk chalk and crayons
- Play on a slip and slide
- Go bowling or mini golfing
- Play hopscotch outside
- Attend a camp
- Join a little league sports team
- Take swim lessons
- Visit a children’s museum
- Jump at an indoor jungle gym when it’s too hot outside
- Work on grade appropriate workbooks
- Read a book
- Have Fun!
- Make pasta crafts and work on counting skills
- Play dress up
- Put together a puzzle
- Visit a farm
- Family movie night outside
- Eat watermelon
- Make milk carton boats and float them
- Go to a duck pond and feed the ducks
- Have a pillow sack race
- Have a splatter paint fight outside and then run in the sprinklers
- Put on a play
- Trace your shadow and decorate it
- Make homemade popsicles with the kids
- Play flashlight tag
- Ride paddle boats
- Visit an Aquarium
- Take pictures and create a photo album at the end of Summer
- Go garage sale shopping
- Plant sunflowers and watch them grow
- Fly a kite
- Have fun!
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Great list. I’m printing it out so we have some different ideas to spice up our summer.
Such a great list to keep kids busy! Thanks for sharing!
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Will be printing this out! Since my daughter is a little older this summer when can finally do a lot of them.
What a great list. The library, s’mores and water play is top on our list!
Love this list! What a great way to enjoy the summer!
What a fabulous list fro summer! Thanks for the printable!!
This is a wonderful list. So many fun ideas!
I am a total list person so I love seasonal lists of things to do with the kids. The more I can check off the better!
What a great list! That should keep the whole summer full and fun!
This is such a great list to do over the summer with kids.
These are really great ideas! I think we’ll try out quite a few of them with my son!
This is a great list. I think we are going to have to do the S’more thing soon!
I needed a new summer list! What a great round up
There are some great ideas here! Thanks for the list. I love the nature walks. My kids always seem to see things that I would have walked right by. Love that!
This is a great list! My boys get bored quickly after school lets out!
This is a great list. I need to buy some new ink :)
i might try to knock a few of these off myself. i’m always looking for new and interesting things to do
Such a great round up of summer activities! Thanks for the printable!
Now that is a list! My kids are really looking forward to summer. we always go to Jamaica, but maybe somewhere different this year
It’s hard to believe that my daughter will be out for summer break at the end of this month. Great ideas!! Love them all, and we will probably do them all.
That’s a great list! I love that you have activities on there for all ages!
That’s a terrific list! My oldest begged for a trampoline for years.
I am going to need this list! I want summer to be fun and enjoyable for the kids. (and me)
Wow…this is an excellent list of summer activities! We’ll be doing lots of these and hopefully we’ll be able to take a small vacation too. That’d be awesome.
I love this! Printing it up and hanging on our fridge!
This would make a totally fun summer without boredom. Love your ideas!
I love your list! This is perfect for when kids come to mom saying “I’m bored!” Blowing bubbles is a favorite at our house!
All great ideas- but I especially loved the kids workshop at Home Depot. I never knew they offered one!
Yours is the longest list I have seen on this subject. Way to go. I do a lot of the activities listed, but you have inspired me to try some different ones. The splatter paint fight, making milk carton boats and planting some sunflowers are ones that I will be surprising them with.
I would do the majority of this by myself, lol. Summer is a great time to just get all the fun out of your system before that next College semester begins.
The kids and I are working on planning our “Summer Bucket-List”. After reading your list, I have a few more awesome ideas to add to the list!
My preschoolers are home with me 24/7 so we can use this list now! Thanks for the printable!
Such great ideas for summer. I need to print this list and do it as the days go by!
s’mores on a firepit sounds like a nice relaxing night at home! can’t wait to try that one.
these are great, I love the idea of the popsicle crafts, they were so much fun when I was a kid.
What a great list. And most of these things are free in themselves!
I am totally saving this list for August when I Have run out of my own ideas and need things to do!! Love it.
This is a great list! My kids and I have been working on a list all winter long and we’re looking forward to tackling it soon!