Summer Bucket List - 100+ Ideas For The Summer

You've got the whole of the summer stretched before you - so what are you going to do to keep the kids entertained for 6+ weeks?!

What you need is a summer bucket list - a list of over 100 ideas for things to do in the school summer holidays.

So here is your definitive Summer Bucket List (or should that be bucket and spade list. I'll get me coat....)

Summer Bucket List

Learn the 6 rules of sun safety.
Decorate a T-Shirt
Go skating
Make your own Playdough with ingredients that you already have in the kitchen.
Go butterfly spotting.
Wear all the same colour clothes.
Go to the cinema. Here are the latest kids movies that are in the cinema right now.
Wear odd socks
Play hide and seek

Image Credit: Ilona

Organise a Nature Scavenger Hunt.
Wear a hat.
Re-read your favourite book
Build a den.
Have a sleepover.
Talk in Pig Latin.
Go skateboarding.
Make a paper fan to help you keep cool.
Tick off some of the 50 things to do before you're 11¾.
Learn a few words in a foreign language
Make your own ice lollies (popsicles)
Donate some unwanted clothes and toys to a charity shop.
Make paper planes.
Write a story.
Have a proper afternoon tea with cucmber sadwiches and cake and china cups.
Go for a bike ride.
Make your own newspaper or magazine
Visit a Farm Park
Go to the theatre
Make an animation.
Go and feed the ducks - here are some safe things to feed to ducks.
Have a picnic.
Have a picnic indoors on a rainy day.
Visit a 'pick your own' farm and pick your own fruit and veg.
Visit a corn maze.
Get messy with some papier mache.
Record yourself speaking and be amazed at what you sound like.
Take the train or bus ride instead of going by car.
Play Tennis For Free.
Have a dress-up day. Get out all the kids dressing up costumes, find some old clothes, bags and jewellery and try everything on. Make hats out of card or newspaper.
Read poetry.
Have a sports day with all the old favourites – 3 legged race, egg and spoon and a sack race.
Make your own Sponge Bombs then lob them around to cool off.
Make a recycled collage. Use old magazines and junk mail to make a picture.
Be a tourist in your own town by visit your local monuments and museums.

Image Credit: Andrew Branch

Take a dog for a walk. Or maybe a cat....
Make your own jigsaws by cutting out pictures from magazines.
Make paper lanterns to decorate the garden for a barbeque or party.
Have a treasure hunt by writing clues to find objects hidden around the house.
Sing along to your favourite songs.
Keep a scrapbook of all your summer holiday fun.
Learn to play chess.
Go fly a kite.
Make some leaf rubbings.
Write a poem
Go and see a summer pantomime
Plant some seeds.
Make paper boats and have your own boat race.
Be pavement artists and decorate with colourful chalks.
Throw a cocktail party with these non alcoholic cocktails.
Do a drawing.
Check the bottom of the garden for fairies. Take your camera and see what you find.
Try to run away from your shadow - how do you get on?
Paint a picture.
Go bird watching
Go on a minibeasts safari
Go to the zoo
Hug a tree
If you live near an airport or airfield, go plane spotting.
Dance to some music.
Be really organised and get all your school uniform bought and named in good time. Maybe not the kids idea of a great afternoon out, but excellent for Mum's sanity.