As school is winding down you may be thinking of ways to keep everyone entertained this summer! Keep them entertained the healthy way by keeping their mind and body active with a healthy summertime bucket list! Here are just a few suggestions:
Have a picnic at the playground.- Kick off your day with smoothies at the park.
- Host a cookout.
- Roast marshmallows over a campfire and make s’mores.
- Camp out in your backyard.
- Go for a family bike ride.
- Have a water gun or water balloon battle.
- Play shaving cream twister.
- Play backyard Yahtzee with giant dice and a bucket.
- Play frisbee and kickball.
- Fly a kite.
- Play water balloon baseball.
- Cool off at a free spray spark.
- Place the sprinkler under the trampoline or jump on it with water balloons!
- Go hiking.
- Have a nature scavenger hunt.
- Sit on the ground with your kids and identify the shapes of the clouds.
- Put on old shoes and go for a stroll in a stream.
- Pick strawberries at a local farm. Make delicious recipes!
- Go to a baseball game.
- Watch a movie at the drive in.
- Visit the local zoo.
- Go to a parade.
- Join the Summer Storytime program at your local library.
- Go to a beach.
- Spend the day at the pool or waterpark.
- Go to a carnival or a fair.
- Visit an amusement park.
- Take your scooters to a local skate park.
- Watch a fireworks show.
- Play a round of mini golf.
- Watch the sunrise.
- Build a sandcastle.
- Make water bombs out of sponges.
- Decorate the driveway with sidewalk chalk and have a photoshoot or draw a hopscotch board and play a few games.
- Play with the slip n slide and the sprinkler.
- Have a car wash using ride on toys.
- Make homemade ice cream.
- Make fruit infused water.
- Buy a popsicle mold and make homemade popsicles.
- Make banana splits or have a sundae bar.
- Paint with squirt guns on a canvas.
- Watch a movie in your backyard.
- Catch lightning bugs.
- Stargaze with your family.
- Have a water bucket relay.
- Smash water balloon pinatas.
- Play “tennis” with (clean) fly swatters and balloons!
- Build a fort.
- Play freeze tag, sardines in a can, hide and go seek and flashlight tag.
- Enjoy story time, crafting, block play or coloring outside.
- Have your kids create a Summer Scrapbook by keeping a journal about their favorite Summer activities, and adding mementos and pictures.
