107 EPIC Summer Activities for Kids to add to your Vacation Activities List

Right now is the PERFECT time to start planning your summer bucket list. Here are 107 EPIC Summer Activities for Kids you will want to add to your vacation activities list! These are definitely must-try, fun things to do in the summer with kids of all ages from toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade children!

107 EPIC Summer Activities for Kids you will want to add to your vacation activities list! These are definitely must-try, fun things to do in the summer with kids of all ages from toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade children!

Things to do in the Summer

The key to having a fun, memory filled summer is to intentionally plan it! Here are over 107 of the best summer activities for kids. You can keep track of your plan with this Scoopin Up Summer Fun Plan!

Now, I’m not talking about planning every minute or over scheduling kids. What I mean is take a peak at these fun things to do in the summer and add them to your Summer Bucket List. Then grab the free printable at the bottom of the post if you like them 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. We have so many EPIC summer activities for kids of all ages!

Summer Activities for Kids

Play Capture the Flag
Do a Water Table Makeover like Growing a Jeweled Rose’s Princess Water Table
Build with Ice Cubes like Train Up a Child
Read a New Book Aloud Together (recommendations from 123Homeschool4Me)
Make homemade popsicles like these colorful ones from Babble
Join a Summer Reading Program
Go swimming at a pool
Have a water balloon fight like Love Play and Learn
Play Mini Golf
Paint with flowers by 123Homeschool4Me
Fly Swatter Painting Outdoors like Reading Confetti
Grow a Grass Friend
Stained Glass Pasta from Babble Dabble Do

Fun Summer Activities

Whether you have a toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, or other age child – you will love all these fun, memorable kids activities for summer!

Love the technique and finished product in this Bleeding Tissue Paper Fireworks Craft
Catch Fireflies in a Far
Leak Proof Bag from Paging Fun Mums
BIG homemade bubbles your kids will never forget
Visit a Zoo or Farm
Make a Obstacle Course like Learn Play Imagine
Pool Noodle Backyard Obstacle Course by Train up a Child
Take a Nature Walk (wherever you are: neighborhood, beach, rain, state park, etc.)
Watermelon Volcano from Natural Beach Living
Sand Slime Recipe from Growing a Jeweled Rose
Go on a Scavenger Hunt! Try these free printable library scavenger hunts (for a rainy day), zoo scavenger hunt, grocery store scavenger hunt, or treasure hunt geography hunt.
Have a Family Pillow Fight
Make your own epic Aqua Sand
Build a Huge Fort (using sticks, pillows, legos, whatever you have!)

Vacation Activities List

This is your family go to list for ideas to fill your summer vacation with. We have enough ideas for June, July and August and make you wish you didn’t have to go back to school so you could get to everything on your kids activities list.

Flower Summer Suncatcher Craft
Glow in the Dark Chalk by Growing a Jeweled Rose
Shaving Cream Balloons from Totally the Bomb
Epic Construction Slime Recipe
Make Family stepping stones like Mom Always Finds Out
Make Ice Cream in a Bag – how cool is that?!
Fizzy Sidewalk Chalk
Get moving in the back yard like Growing a Jeweled Rose did with Get up & Move Backyard Dice
Play Backyard Twister like Eucharisteo
Practice your Alphabet with an Ice Letter Hunt like Reading Confetti
Watering an Alphabet Garden like Toddler Approved
Sensory Roller Painting by Mummy Musings and Mayhem
Wash the car by hand
Make a Kid Wash by 123Homeschool4Me
Paint Me! Frozen Paint Sensory Fun by 123Homeschool4Me

Summer Bucket List for Kids

This HUGE list of activities for kids has ideas for kids of all ages whether they like active ideas, cute crafts, educational learning activities, easy science experiments, or anything in between!

Easy Flower Science Experiment
Water Balloon Science Experiment
Regrow Celery by Housing a Forest
Marshmallow Shooters (go 30+ feet!) by 123Homeschool4Me
Go Star Gazing (you can make your own pipe cleaner constellations or use our star mini book)
Watch the Sunrise (bring a picnic breakfast!)
Play at a [new-to-you] park
Make a super cute animal craft – here are 100 animal crafts to choose from!
Fly a Kite
Go Bowling (or join a bowling league)
Practice spelling in the pool like Enchanted Homeschooling Mom
Go to Chuck E. Cheese (don’t forget to get an online coupon first!)
Play in the Rain like Kids Activities Blog
Sand Paper Print T-shirrs like Alpha Mom
Make Root beer Floats
Make a Craft Stick Bracelets like 123 Homeschool 4 Me
Play tennis with Balloons
Disappearing Letters by Reading Confetti
Make Sponge Bombs like Inner Child Fun
Have a Picnic like East Coast Mommy
Fly a Bottle Rocket like Science Sparks
Fun to blow Bubble Artwork for Kids

Watermelon Puffy Paint Recipe from Crafty Morning
This Squirt Gun Painting is as fun to make as it is beautiful from Fireflies and Mudpies
Paint Rocks by Eighteen25
Plan a Memorable Family Vacation like 123Homeschool4Me
Pick berries or produce from a U-Pick
Father & Son Home Depot Clinic on making Bird House (free!)
Set up a backyard Slip & Slide like 123Homeschool4Me
Make homemade ice cream like 123homeschool4me
Go to Farmers Market
Melted Pony Bead Craft
Go Fishing
Take a Boat Ride
Watch Fire Works
Go to Disney World like 123Homeschool4Me
Play Sight Word Hopscotch like Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
Make an Outdoor Marble Run like 123Homeschool4Me (coming soon)
Make Sand Art like Busy Kids Happy Mom
Spend a day at a Children’s Museum (great for rainy days or for low crowds go on a sunny day!)