How to Create a Summer Bucket List with Your Kids

School’s letting out for the summer soon, which means you need a plan to keep the kids busy during their summer vacation. To avoid the dreaded, “I’m bored,” create a summer bucket list with all the things you and your kids want to do. Sit down with the family and write out a list of everything you want to do, then make the list into a poster to hang on the wall or fridge.  If you want to get even more creative, you can use a real bucket and fill it with pieces of paper that you’ve written your ideas on.  For those that want to create something unconventional, check out the section called ‘alternative ideas,’ which has all sorts of creative ways to display your bucket list. Check out these 21 blog entries for lists of activity ideas to get your own imagination going.

Posters

One of the simplest ideas for a summer bucket list is to write up an actual list and put it up somewhere that you and your family will see every day.  Take a look at some of these seven blog entries for free printables that will give you a way to dress up your list.

• Summer Bucket List for Moms Who Want to Engage This is a list that includes the things mom wants to do in the mix instead of just creating fun things for the kids to do.
• Free Printable & Coloring Page—Summer Bucket List Let the kids color and fill in their own bucket list for this summer and post it somewhere that you can all see it every day.
• {Summer Bucket List} 50 Summer Ideas and Activities for Kids with Free Printable Find a list of activities that you can use to make a poster.
• Summer Bucket List for Kids 2013 This blog contains a printable poster full of fun summer things to do with the kids.
• Summer Bucket List: Ideas and Create Your Own! Take a look at the appropriate clipart bucket this blogger has used to make a poster of the activities that her family wants to do.
• Summer Bucket List {with Printable!} Print your own blank list to let your family help you fill in your own activities or take some help from this blogger’s list.
• Summer Bucket List Party Features There’s a printable bucket list on this blog post that you can print or take inspiration from.

Buckets

What’s a bucket list without a bucket?  Look around the house and see if you have any buckets or baskets that you can use for your summer bucket list. If you want to draw activities at random out of the bucket, just throw folded up pieces of paper detailing your ideas into the bucket.  Otherwise, you can write your outings on clothespins and attach them to the sides of the bucket so that you can pick your activity.  No matter which idea you choose, you can find the directions in these seven blog articles.

• Summer Bucket List: How to Make One for Your Family Look at these interesting ideas for a bucket list and then find a suggestion for putting slips of paper into a sand bucket.
• Printable Summer Bucket List This list can be printed and used as a poster or attached to a sand bucket and filled with mementos of every activity you do all summer.
• Summertime Activities Bucket List {Free Printables} Use the free printables, get a lunch bucket and load in the activity cards.
• Val’s Crafty Corner: Create a Summer Bucket List Buy a brightly colored bucket and let the kids write their summer bucket list ideas on paper, then throw them in the bucket.
• Chart Your Summer Bucket List with Style Write your activities onto clothespins and attach them to the side of the bucket. As you accomplish each bucket list item, throw the pin into the bucket so you can reminisce over the experiences later.
• Summer Bucket List… Bucket Take a look at the low cost idea that this blogger had to transform a yogurt container into a bucket for her summer bucket list.
• Fall Bucket List While this is a blog about doing activities in the fall, the idea to hang buckets for each activity and then fill the bucket with souvenirs is one that will work for summer too.

Alternative Ideas

If you like to dance to the beat of your own drum, you may like these alternative ideas for a summer bucket list.  Create an idea clothesline and string it across the living room or hang it on the mantel.  For other imaginative ideas, look at these seven blog posts.

• The Ultimate Summer Bucket List There are 100 fun ideas for summer on this list that you can choose from and use in whatever way you want.
• Summer Bucket List—Nichols Family This family chose to do index cards on a giant bulletin board for their summer bucket list.
• Backyard Bucket List (73 Frugal & Creative Backyard Activities for Kids) Take a look at this list of things to do in your own yard that won’t cost you a fortune.
• The Kids Summer Bucket List Check out this idea of putting slips of paper in a tin box for a summer bucket list.
• Reusable Summer Bucket List Learn how to make a hanging chalkboard that you can use year after year to write your summer bucket list on.
• Summer Bucket List/ Silhouette Chipboard Write your bucket list ideas on chipboard buckets and hang them up like this blogger did.
• Summer Bucket List—Howard Family Clothespin your activity cards to a rope or ribbon and string it across your living room wall so that you can see your summer bucket list.

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