107 Must Do Kids Activities for your Summer Bucket List

The key to having a fun, memory filled summer is to intentionally plan it! 

Now I’m not talking about planning every minute or over scheduling kids. What I mean is take a peak at the 107 Must do Kids Activities for your Summer Bucket List, grab the free printable if you like, and start penciling them in on your calendar. 

Then you will make sure to actually do the fun things you intend to do and actually create that fun, memory filled summer you and your kids are longing for. 

1. Paint with Rocks like Fantastic Fun and Learning
2. Join a Summer Reading Program
3. Catch Fireflies in a Far
4. BIG homemade bubbles like We Are That Family
5. Visit a Zoo or Farm
6. Colorful Bubble Snakes by Housing a Forest
7. Word Scavenger Hunt by Play dough to Plato
8. Have a Family Pillow Fight
9. Build a Huge Fort (using sticks, pillows, legos, whatever you have!)
10. Glow in the Dark Chalk by Growing a Jeweled Rose
11. Make Family stepping stones like Z Recommends
12. Have Family Derby Races  like TP Craft
13. Make Ice Cream in a Bag like Food Your Way
14. Fizzy Sidewalk Chalk by Growing a Jeweled Rose
15. Make a lemonade stand by Sunscholars
16. Wash the car by hand
17. Make a Kid Wash by 123Homeschool4Me
18. Paint Me! Frozen Paint Sensory Fun by 123Homeschool4Me
19.  Pouring Potions & Color Mixing by The Chocolate Muffin Tree
20. Regrow Celery by Housing a Forest
21. Marshmallow Shooters (go 30+ feet!) by 123Homeschool4Me
22. Go on an Alphabet Treasure Hunt  by Playdough to Plato
23. Go Star Gazing
24. Watch the Sunrise (bring a picnic breakfast!)
25. Play at a [new-to-you] park
26. Zoo Scavenger Hunt with Printable by I Can Teach My Child
27. Fly a Kite
28. Have a Picnic like East Coast Mommy
29. Fly a Bottle Rocket like Science Sparks
30. Go swimming at a pool
31. Have a water balloon fight like Love Play and Learn
32. Play Mini Golf
33. Paint with flowers by 123Homeschool4Me
34. Fly Swatter Painting Outdoors like Reading Confetti
35. Grow a Grass Friend
36. Paint Rocks by Eighteen25
37. Plan a Memorable Family Vacation like 123Homeschool4Me
38. Pick berries or produce from a U-Pick
39. Father & Son Home Depot Clinic on making Bird House (free!)
40. Set up a backyard Slip & Slide like 123Homeschool4Me
41. Make homemade ice cream like 123homeschool4me
42. Go to Farmers Market
43. Go Fishing
44. Take a Boat Ride
45. Watch Fire Works
46. Go to Disney World like 123Homeschool4Me
47. Play Sight Word Hopscotch like Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
48. Make an Outdoor Marble Run like 123Homeschool4Me (coming soon)
49. Make Sand Art like Busy Kids Happy Mom
50. Spend a day at a Children’s Museum (great for rainy days or for low crowds go on a sunny day!)
    1. San Francisco by Bug and Buddy
    2. Little House on the Prairie by Living Montessori Now
51. Have Popcorn Movie Day on a rainy day
52. Go Bowling (or join a bowling league)
53. Practice spelling in the pool like Enchanted Homeschooling Mom
54. Go to Chuck E. Cheese (don’t forget to get an online coupon first!)
55. Play in the Rain like Kids Activities Blog
56. Volunteer with your kids like 52 Brand New
57. Host a themed Playdate
58. Put out the Fire (with water hose) by Toddler Approved
59. Make a Portable Water Wall like Fun-a-Day
60. Make & Sail Ice Boats like Reading Confetti
61. Painting with your Feet like Here Come the Girls
62. Paint with Water and Ice like Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails
63. Attend a local church’s Vacation Bible School program
64. Have a Backyard movie night like Housing a Forest
65. Sensory Fun with Ice like Plain Vanilla Mom
66. Backyard Frozen Fun by Counting Coconuts
67. Marshmallow Sensory Play by Fantastic Fun & Learning-
68. Summer Sensory Play with Shaving Cream by Growing a Jeweled Rose
69. Make a Hot Air Balloon like DIY Projects for Kids
70. Make a Mud Kitchen like The Imagination Tree
71. Make a Pinecone Bird Feeder like Tinkerlab
72. Make a Melted beads Stain Glass Sun Catcher like 123Homeschool4Me (coming soon)
73. Glowing Outdoor Science Lab by Growing a Jeweled Rose
74. Lawn Tic-Tac-Toe like Learn Create Love
75. DIY Spray Paint for Preschool and Toddler Art by Sun Hats and Wellie Boots
76. Alphabet Water gun targets  by Creative Capital B
77. Make a Solar Oven for some Summer Science by Kitchen Pantry Scientists
78. Make Your Own Lava Lamp by Come Together Kids
79. Make a Pinwheel like My Homespun Threads
80. Rock Candy like Moms Crafty Space
81. Grow Giant Sunflowers like The Golden Gleam
82. Make Bubble Prints like Vivid Layers
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83. Sand Paper Print T-shirrs like Alpha Mom
84. Make Root beer Floats
85. Make a Craft Stick Bracelets like 123 Homeschool 4 Me
86. Play tennis with Balloons
87. Disappearing Letters by Reading Confetti
88. Make Sponge Bombs like Inner Child Fun
89. Play Capture the Flag
90. Do a Water Table Makeover like Growing a Jeweled Rose’s Princess Water Table
91. Build with Ice Cubes like Train Up a Child
92. Read a New Book Aloud Together (recommendations from 123Homeschool4Me)
93. Make homemade popsicles like these colorful ones from Babble
94. Visit a State Park
95. Make Salsa from your Garden you grew
96. Make a Driveway Obstacle Course like Creative Family Fun
97. Pool Noodle Backyard Obstacle Course by Train up a Child
98. Make an Outdoor Band (bang on garbage lid, wind chime, water in cups, etc)
99. Take a Nature Walk (wherever you are: neighborhood, beach, rain, state park, etc.) like Crystals Tiny Treasures Marine Walk
100. Go Go Camping outside or indoor camping ( 
101. Take a day trip to a Beach
102. Make Sponge sculptures like The Chocolate Muffin Tree
103. Glow in the Dark – Firefly Nightlights by 123Homeschool4Me
104. Get moving in the back yard like Growing a Jeweled Rose did with Get up & Move Backyard Dice
105. Play Backyard Twister like Eucharisteo
106. Practice your Alphabet with an Ice Letter Hunt like Reading Confetti
107. Watering an Alphabet Garden like Toddler Approved
108. Summer Bucket List with Free Printable by Motherhood on a Dime
109. Sensory Roller Painting by Mummy Musings and Mayhem
110. Find more great ideas from Little Wonder’s Days Bucket List 
111. Bowling – KIDS BOWL FREE
112. Ice Cream in a Bag – Growing a Jeweled Rose

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