Get ready for a summer full of fun, memories, and creative activities your kids will remember forever! We have over 50 fun ideas for summer! These summer activities include ideas for indoor, outdoor, exploring nature, summer craft ideas, and more! Add these to your summer bucket list ideas with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th graders too!

Fun Ideas for Summer

Summer nature activities
- Geocaching learn how to start geocaching with your kids for some summer fun!
- Berry Picking – find a local u pick farm to pick strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, peaches, cherries, and more! This is not only fun and delicious but is a great way to help kids explore where food comes from and dive into some cooking skills too.
- Trip to the River – Explore nature with a fun river trip filled with quiet and excitement at the same time
- Go camping – Vacations don’t have to be expensive or thoroughly planned out! We have tips for taking kids of all ages camping to learn and explore nature while having a break from the usual hustle and bustle of life!
- Go Climbing – Get kids active and strengthening their bodies and gaining new confidence by taking a family climb or hike
- Go on a sound walk – Learn to listen to the sounds around you and discover a whole world of sounds in nature with this fun idea!
- Foraging for Food – foraging doesn’t only happen in the kitchen pantry – try this idea!

Summer arts and crafts
- Epic Squirt Gun Painting allows kids to play and create a unique summer art project
- How to Draw – take some time to learn how to draw with a class, youtube step-by-step tutorial, and other free offerings
- Bubble Prints This engaging and beautiful summer art and craft project is one of our favorites! It is as fun to make as it is pretty at the end!
- Paint with Water – You don’t need any fancy supplies to try this simple project for young kids!
- Suncatchers are always a fun summer project! They look so pretty when the sun shines through them and brightens up indoor spaces! Try these flower suncatchers that use actual flowers, simple watermelon suncatchers, these Pony Bead Suncatcher, or these simple and cheery sun summer suncatcher craft
- This is a zany Color Mixing activity or you can try this no mess painting activity where kids can mix colors
- As a kids I loved making scratch art! You would use crayons to create a fun, colorful image, coloring every square inch of your paper. Then color over the colorful crayon with black crayon until it’s all covered. Now use a craft stick or finger nail to make a design and watch the colors come ack out out. You can also try this activity with pre-made scratch art papers
- Rock Painting is such a fun, classic activity that mixes nature and crafts for a fun, keepsake craft that will decorate your garden beds!
- You’ve heard of a pet rock, but now meet this adorable Pet Cactus
- Every year at camp we woudl alwasy make tie dye shirts. I was alwasy amazes when I took off the rubberbands to see the cool designs in my custome Tie Dye Shirts
- Create beautiful designs all over your driveway with this fun, easy, and cheap sidewalk paint recipe
- This painting with marshmallows is quick, easy, and super fun!
- Got a lot of crayon pieces? You can turn them into pretty Upcycled crayons
- This Color-changing Sidewalk Chalk is a fun twist on a classic activity! Your kids will flip
- If your summer is hot, you’ve got to try this Frozen Paint to allow your kids to get creative making art while cooling off at the same time!
- Or make this fizzy sidewalk paint recipe that is a fun twist
- My kids would love this Stomping Bubble Wrap Painting
- Shell Windchimes kids love the sound of windchimes gently maing music in the summer breeze. This project allows kids to make their own windchimeswith shells you buy at the craft store or have leftover from a recent trip to the beach
- Ready…. Set….. Fold! These Scrapbook Paper Planes are fun to make, personalize, and fly. We like to have competitions on whose will go the farthest.
- This Land Art is another fun art in nature project for kids of all ages!
- Amazing Tin Foil Art Project for Kids of all Ages
- This zany balloon drop painting is sure to be a favorite summer arts and crafts project with children of all ages

Summer STEM
- These Glow in the dark fairy lights are super easy and pretty to make
- What kid doesn’t like collecting bugs from around the yard?! They can house them temporarily while they are making their observations in these custom Bug Jars for kids to make
- Explore seeds and how plants grow with this easy, and outrageously FUN grass house project
- Work on balance and exploring nature with this Stacking Stones activity
- Who said the train tracks had to stay in the houst? Take your play outside with this book based activity that will have your kids hapiily making Backyard Roads for hours
- Make this quick and easy Marshmallow Shooters STEM activity – go over 30 feet!
- Not only is this Ice Cream in a Bag fun-to-prepare, but it is absolutely declicious too!
- Make your own cute Straw Rockets with the free template
- Footprint Trail Detective is a fun way to teach kids about animals and how scientists learn where animals have been
- Head to the beach for this Beach Tidal Pool activity
- Catching Lightning Bugs is one of my all-time-favorite activities to do at my Grandma’s house every summer. THey had a big property I could wander and catch these fascinating insects!
- Frozen Flowers is a unique way to explore nature
- Ready to cool off? Try these Stacking Ice Logs activity for kids
- Making a Solar Oven is a classic project that not only amazes kids, but helps them learn about scientific principles and use creativity and problem solving to get the desired results from their summer science project.
- Egg Shell DIY Chia Pet Craft – Silly Spring / Summer Activities for Kids
Summer Science
- Volcano Watermelon Experiment – Summer Activity for Preschoolers
- Simple Summer Science Sunscreen Experiment
- Water Balloon Experiment – exploring densit with an EPIC summer activity for kids
- Lemon Volcano is a fun Summer Experiment for kids of all ages
- Exploding Watermelon Science Experiment is easy enough for all ages with a big BANG!
- Vinegar and Baking Soda Rocket Science Experiment for Kids
- EPIC Mentos and Soda Experiment is super simple with geyser like results that will WOW kids!
- Simple Tomato Battery Fruit Science Experiment or this lemon battery activity
- Try this how to make a lemon clock to explore electricity

Summer Play
- My kids all-time favorite summer activity was making this ice cream edible playdough recipe! It looks, feels, molds, and tastes like ice cream, but you can play with it like playdough!
- Nothing says summer like a big bowl of strawberries! Bring that summer sensation to your summer play with this easy, scented strawberry jello playdough recipe
- This bright and cheery lemon playdough is fun to design with and wonderfully scented too
- Super Simple Sand Slime
- Scented, Watermelon Playdough Recipe for summer
- Whip up a batch of Kool Aid Playdough – it smells amazing!
- Whip up a batch of this fun Fluffy slime
- Glitter glue Slime is quick and easy to make for summertime play
- How fun is this – Pudding Slime
- DIY Flubber is perfect to pair with the old DIsney classic movie Flubber
- You’ve GOT to try this homemade solution for Giant Bubbles
- This fun, colorful snake kids will make is so simple, but so silly and fun at the same time!
- Beach Playdough is perfect for summer

Summer Bucket List Games
Games, DIY toys and invitations to play can add awesomeness to your Summer. Check out these ideas:
- This zoo scavenger hunt is one of our favorite activities, their are lots of choices from simple animals finds for young kids, color hunts, habitat hunts, ones that review key terms, and more!
- Grab this simple summer bucket list bingo to make a game out of getting in summer fun!
- Let your kids dream up and make plans for their summer with these summer planning printables
- We love using this visual Ice Cream summer bucket list on our fridge and watching the cone get more and more scoops as we do more of the fun summer activity ideas
- Try the camping scavenger hunt to add some extra fun to your next trip
- Head to the farm to visit the animals and complete this farm scavenger hunt
- On your next visit to your local library, when you are signing up for your summer reading program, try this fun, free printable library scavenger hunt or this book scavenger hunt
- Rainbow Nature Hunt
- Super Soaker Sponge Balls
- Find a new favorite Family Board Games with our tried-and-true list
Preschool Activities
- DIY Foam Paint for Kids
- EASY Science Activities for Preschoolers
- Baking Soda Slime
- Watermelon Slime Activity
- Printable Road Shapes Activity
- Glow in the Dark Fairy Jar
- Color Changing FLowers Experiment
- Painting with Cars
- Easy-to-Make Balloon Hovercraft
- Super Cool Scribble Draw Bot
- Edible Peanut Butter Playdough
- Egg Shell DIY Chia Pet Craft – Silly Spring / Summer Activities for Kids
- Grass Head Craft for Kids
- EASY Stained Glass Pasta Art for Kids
- Race Track Pool Noodle Activity
- Starry Night Project with Tin Foil
- Blow GIANT bubbles with this Homemade Bubble Solution
- DIY Foosball Table
- Lots of fantastic Books for Preschoolers
- 30 Fun June Crafts for Kids
- Must try Lego Zipline
- Fizzy Planets Solar System Project
- Free Printable Doctor Pretend Play
Summer Fun
Looking for more outdoor activities for kids and things to do in the summer? Your toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, and elementary age kids will love these fun ideas to keep them busy all summer long:
- Marshmallow Shooters – go over 30 feet!
- Lemon Volcano is a fun Summer Experiment for kids of all ages
- Silly Bandaid Art Craft for kids
- 2 ingredient Easy Slime Recipe
- Epic Squirt Gun Painting
- Super Simple Sand Slime
- How to Make a Lava Lamp – it’s super EASY!
- Kids will no nuts over this simple Pop Rock Experiment
- Leak Proof Bag – Amazing Science Experiment with Everyday Materials
- Mind-Blowing Magnetic Slime for Kids
- Water Balloon Experiment – exploring densit with an EPIC summer activity for kids
- Amazing Bubble Painting
- Mind Blowing Color Changing Playdough
Free Beach Printables
Looking for more summer beach themed printable worksheets and activities for kids? You will love these free resources:
- Free I Spy Beach Printable
- Sandcastle Math Subraction Craft
- Summer Beach Coloring Pages
- Lots of Beach Worksheets to practice a variety of math and literacy skills
- Sandcastle Activities –Â Count & Trace Worksheets
- Free Printable Summer preschool math worksheets
- Seashell Summer Letter Maching Printable
- Practice counting and tracing with these cute Sandcastle Number Tracing
- Letter Tracing Sandcastle Printable
- Summer Worksheets for Preschool
Summer Worksheets
These pages will allow you to get in some low-prep practice with a variety of math from telling time, counting, writing numbers, number recognition, and more!
- Crab Preschool Summer Math Worksheets
- Ice Cream Math Worksheets
- Summer Math Puzzle Worksheets
- Garden theme Telling Time Worksheets pdf free
- Kindergarten Summer Math Worksheets
- Free Printable Summer Scavenger Hunt
- Summer Printable Activity Sheets
- Hands-on Summer Skip Counting Puzzles
- Fun Summer Activity Sheets
- Preschool Number Coloring Pages for Summer
- Summer Kindergarten Worksheets to work on math
- Pool Summer Worksheets Preschool
Camping & Smores Printables
- Smore Kindergarten Math Worksheets
- Math Camping Worksheets for Preschoolers
- Free Camping Tracing Worksheets
- Smore Complete Sentence Game
- Pratical Advice and Tips for Camping with Kids
- 10 Campfire Games to play around the fire
- Smore Skip Counting Activities
- Camping Worksheets to work on math and literacy skills with kindergartners
- Camping Theme for a weeks worth of educational activities for kids of all ages
- Smores Rhyming Words Activity
- Counting camping math activities for preschoolers
- Printable Marshmallow Template Ten Frame Activity
- Name Recognition Camping Craft Preschool
Summer worksheets for kindergarten
Looking for more fun, summer theme educational activities for prek and kinders? Check out these free summer printables!
- Summer alphabet picture puzzles
- Pail and Shovel Summer Alphabet Letter Game for Summer
- Summer Handwriting Worksheets
- Hands-on Ice Cream Compound Word Activity
- Summer Playdough Mats
- Water Gun Parts of Speach Game
- Playdough Watermelon Seed Counting Activity
- Summertime Dot Art Printables
- Cute Flip Flip Letter Matching
- Free Printable Bubble Math Worksheets for Kindergarten
- Beach Ball and Pool Writing Numbers 1-20 Kindergarten
Summer Math
- Summer Counting Clip Cards
- Printable Kindergarten Summer Math
- Grill and Count Summer Playdough Mats
- free printable ice cream sundae template to 20 Activity
- Pirate Number Sense Games
- Hands-on Playdough Ice Cream Patter Printable
- I Spy Ice Cream Activity SHeets
- Hot Dogs number words activities for kindergarten
- Count to 20 with these Watermelon Watermelon Seed Counting Activity
- Count to 10 vegetable counting worksheet
- Counting Animals Worksheets
- Fishing Math Craft is a fun Number Craft Activities
- Strawberry Picking Summer Rhyming Activity
- Summer Color by Number Worksheets
Summer Printables
- Free Bubble word family sort printable
- Practice Tracing Letters with this summer themed Ice Cream Alphabet Printable
- Swimming Goggles matching upper and lowercase letters game
- Seeds Find the Letter Worksheets
- Garden Seeds Adding to 10 – Addition Games Printable
- Work on phonics skills with these alphabet popsicles beginning sound activity for summer
- Surfboard opposites game printable
- Zoo Color by Number Animals
- Summer Sun Maze Kindergarten Sight Word Worksheets
Summer Learning
- Grab these Free Printable Summer Bookmarks and a book off our Kindergarten Book List
- Counting Firefly Math Worksheets
- Firefly Math making 10 free printable
- Watermelon Watermelon Rhyming Words
- Practice making letters with this hands-on Watermelon Printables
- Learn about the life cycle of a dreaded summer bug with Mosquito Worksheets
- Discover this helpful insect with the life cycle of a bee worksheets
- Free Plant Life Cycle Worksheets
- Learn about life cycles with these ladybug life cycle worksheet
Summer Theme
- Practice letter tracing on these cheery summer alphabet tracing
- Work on writing with these summer writing prompts ,Build and Write Lego Writing Promtps, or these Pineapple wrting [printables.
- Summer Hat Craft Printable Template
- Bee Ten frame addition worksheets
- June Coloring Pages
- Number Sense Butterfly Math Activities for Preschoolers