100 Fun Family Activities: Summer Bucket List Ideas

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The kids are home for the summer and parents are scrambling to keep them busy. Summer breaks can be a great time to reconnect and make special memories with your children. A summer bucket list is a great way to help keep kids busy and entertained all summer long. Unlike summer camps, you can pick and choose what activities you want try and do them on your own schedule. Here are 100 summer bucket list ideas for your kids.

There is something on this list for everyone but, families with younger children will rejoice as these activities are varied and lots of fun.

1. Make homemade lemonade
2. Go to a drive in movie
3. Make smore’s
4. Go fruit picking

(See what happened when we went strawberry picking -video)

1. Visit a kids science center
2. Make homemade popsicles

1. Go to the beach
2. Meet your flight’s pilot(s)
3. Take a boat ride
4. Go to $1 movies
5. Enroll in a summer reading program
6. Go biking

1. Attend a summer concert
2. Go to the zoo
3. Go to the waterpark
4. Have a bbq

1. Go to the farmer’s market
2. Go go-cart racing
3. Run through the sprinklers
4. Rent a paddle boat

1. Visit Sesame Place
2. Go on a road trip
3. Have a picnic
4. Visit Legoland
5. Visit a National Park
6. Ride a Ferris Wheel

1. Build a sand castle
2. Feed the ducks at the park
3. Create a summer beach playlist
4. Order ice cream from an ice cream truck
5. Visit an outdoor pool

1. Fly a kite
2. Go to a baseball game
3. Toss a frisbee
4. Build a diy beach caddy
5. Have a block party
6. Schedule a professional family photo shoot

1. Make homemade watermelon granitas
2. Play with side walk chalk
3. Play an old game of hop scotch

1. Blow bubbles
2. Have a hula-hoop contest
3. Visit a state fair
4. Go fishing
5. Get faces painted

1. Play slip and slide
2. Get a butterfly kit
3. Make smoothies
4. Build a bird house
5. Make a beach cake

1. Meet your favorite character
2. Stay in a cabin
3. Plant a garden
4. Visit an aquarium
5. Try a summer salad

1. Ride a roller coaster
2. Have a game of soccer
3. Visit an island
4. Watch some fireworks
5. Visit the circus

1. Have a yard sale
2. Visit Washington, DC
3. Attend vacation bible school
4. Have a water gun fight
5. Ride a carousel

1. Watch a puppet show
2. Make homemade ice cream
3. Sign up for swim lessons
4. Plant a tree

1. Have a beach party
2. Visit a petting zoo
3. Start a lemonade stand
4. Visit Dutch Wonderland

1. Attend a county fair
2. Watch a summer blockbuster
3. Have a water balloon fight
4. Go to Hershey Park
5. Have snow cones
6. Dine at a restaurant al freco
7. Play jumprope
8. Rent a beach house
9. Lay in a hammock
10. Go camping
11. Watch the sunset
12. Make a fruit salad
13. View the fireworks
14. Go out for fro-yo
15. Go shell collecting

1. Build a tree house
2. Carve a watermelon
3. Make pina coladas
4. Make homemade ice tea
5. Sleep under the stars
6. Make your own banana split
7. Have a slumber party

1. Travel
2. Lay out in the lazy river
3. Play on the monkey bars
4. Pick some fresh flowers
5. Go on a scavenger hunt

Updated: Original article published June 2016. Updated May 29, 2019