Oh! The Lazy Days of Summer: Summer Bucket List

Are you ready for melting ice cream cones and days that seem to stretch on forever? How can we make the most of these lazy, hazy days? A summer bucket list - your ticket to a season filled with adventure, relaxation, and unforgettable memories.

This is our third year for making a summer bucket list and I'm so excited. We never run out of great things to do all summer long. I pick up all of the supplies we need at the beginning of summer, so we always have everything on hand no matter the day or the weather!

Everyday

Garden

Read: Ambleside free reading lists and independent lists

Take time to smell flowers

Stop to watch every sunset

Read outside

Giggle

Work on a volunteering Project
Learn a new hymn

Spend evenings on the deck
Piano

Scheduled Events

Last Day of School Basket
VBS

Church camp

Day Trip or Out and About Stops

Hike

Children’s garden

Zoo

Summer concert

Explore a creek or stream
Climb…rocks, trees, hills

Go to pond and feed the ducks

Go spelunking
Go to waterfall

Go out for ice cream cones

Visit the observatory

Pick blueberries, strawberries, and apples

Go to an outdoor concert

Go to arboretum

Go to the walking/biking trail-bridge
Take a strange road trip
Rockets

Rainy Day

Birding basket
Carrot floating experiment
Make Ice Cream Sandwiches
Volcano in a bottle
Birds in a Jar
Ice cube trick
Make a crystal tree
Make Root Beer Floats
Make a lava lamp
Natural dye project
Pencil Bag
Make a newspaper dome
Pointillism pencil painting
Magazine Butterflies
Cherry blossom painting
Newsprint Basket
Suncatcher
Cardboard skyscraper
Make Fruit Juice Popsicles
Tin can robots
T-shirt tote
Seashell Craft
Crayon rocks

  

Night Time Fun

Catch fireflies

Star gaze
Listen to crickets
Flashlight tag
Hold a flashlight to the window and watch for moths

What-to-do Jar

Painted stones
S'mores Solar oven
Mini-Tree House
Flower Fairies-land art
Queen Anne's Lace study
Water tinted painting project
Stone Footsteps
Tree study
Flower windows
Make a banging wall
Flower Arranging
Play in the Giant's Garden
Cattail Study
Letterboxing
Make a flower patch for the playhouse
Food coloring daisies
Weather study

Big Projects
Redecorate the playhouse
Pirate Boat

Make Bird Houses
Robotics project

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All of our bucket lists: Here are our lists from 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 for more inspiration.

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