100+ Summer Bucket List For Kids - Active Littles (2024)

If you are on the hunt for a summer bucket list for kids, I’ve got you covered!

This is one of the best summer bucket lists for children.

I am so excited to be sharing this list with you!

Be sure to bookmark this list to come back to every year!

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Some of the best summer bucket list for kids ideas I cover involve a bit of:

• Outdoor Activities

• Arts and crafts

• Water play for kids

• Sensory Activities for Kids

• DIY Creative Summer Bucket List Ideas

And, more!

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Note: Share with me below in the comments your idea of fun things to try out this summer.

I’d love to update it with YOUR ideas too!

I will also include a fun summer bucket list for kids printable at the bottom of this post.

Everything all in one page is extremely helpful. 🙂

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Alright, let’s get into this massive list of good ideas to try this summer!

Related: If you are also on the hunt for things to do during summer for kids here is our list of over 80 Summer Activities for kids!

See Also: Summer Sensory Bin

How do you make a summer bucket list for kids?

The best family summer bucket list for kids doesn’t have to have all the bells and whistles!

In fact, making a unique fun activity list for summer can look a lot like a simple sensory bin or homemade craft.

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Fun Summer Bucket List Ideas

There is always a perfect opportunity to make your very own summer bucket list. Here are some ideas:

• Water Balloons

• Scavenger Hunt

• Paper Plates

• Squirt guns

• Laser tags

• Hula hoops

• Kiddie pool

• Indoor campout

• Craft projects

• A list of fun activities

• Water games and outdoor fun

• Catch fireflies and release

• Outdoor water games

• Craft supplies we bring out on rainy days

• Summer camp

• Enjoying Ice cram sundaes with the whole family

• Root beer floats and an outdoor movie theatre make for a great time

• Fruit picking at a local farm

• A nice nature walk

• A bake sale

• Visit an amusem*nt park

• Visit a national park

• Travel the United States

• Visit Kansas City, the Carolinas or California

• Check out live music

• Attend a baseball game

• Donate to a local charity

• Tell ghost stories as a camp activity

• Create a summer journal

• Visit a butterfly garden

• Use sidewalk chalk to create something epic

• Make homemade popsicles for a hot day

• Watch a new movie at a local movie theater

• Homemade ice cream is so much fun

• Attend a kid friendly outdoor concert

• Make paper airplanes

• Make homemade pizza together

• Bring out the duct tape and craft paper and draw out a pretend play road trip

• Read a new book at a local library

• Buy fresh fruit at a farmers’ market or local grocery store

• Less screen time by visiting local parks

• Visit a local fair and try out the Ferris wheel

And, more!

200+ Outdoor Summer Activities for Kids

What are some of your family favorite ideas?

Do you have an old favorite idea that makes the end of the school year a best time?

Summer break is a perfect time to add those day trips in or to visit a new place or a new trail to explore.

There lots of new things with extra time that we can choose to bring about as quality time with our loved ones.

Let’s check out even more favorite things that make up for a good time with our younger and older kids.

I am so happy to be able to provide the best way to go about the summer season.

Many of these ideas allow for a great way to make those summer days so much fun!

And, a lot of these ideas can be made easily with a few homemade items.

Here are a few outdoor summer kid ideas we’ve tried in the past and truly loved:

• Easy Summer Window Art

• Ice Cream Shaving Cream Kids Activity

• Dinosaur Sensory Bin

• Pebble Kids Activity

• Nature Sensory Bin

• Pouring Water Kids Activity

• Ocean Sensory Bin

• Water Table Activities

Related: Looking for even more fun for kids this summer? This is our favorite list.

See Also: Summer Backyard Sensory Bin

And, here are even more easy outdoor activities for kids to add to your summer bucket list:

• Splash pad fun

• Water balloon throw

• Butterfly Catch and Release

• Picnic in backyard

• Fly a kite

• Roast Marshmallows together

• Bring out the water table

• Watch a movie outdoors

• Make smores together

• Summer STEM experiment

• Summer sensory play

• Bike ride together

• Play in the sprinklers

• Play with the hose

• Ice sensory bin

• Jump in rain puddles

• Dance in the rain

• Water table sensory table

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Our Favorite Summer Busy Book

What should I put on my kids bucket list?

Maybe a simple summer bucket list craft!

Here are our top picks for arts and craft ideas for the summer:

• Create a summer craft

• Summer paper plate craft

• Make a card for loved ones

• Paint rocks and stones

• Fish craft for kids

• Draw a sun and the ocean

• Tape resist activity

• Window paint activity for kids

• Paper mache craft for kids

• Face painting

• Flower art craft

• Pool noodle art

Related: Looking for over 80+ activities to do in the summer with kids? Here are even more ideas just for you!

Sun Craft Summer Activity

Another fun set of summer bucket list activity ideas – sensory play ideas for kids:

• Alphabet sensory bin

• Garden sensory bin

• Campfire sensory bin

• Ocean Themed sensory bag

• Ocean sensory bottle

• Water play

• Outdoor sensory play

• Rainbow sensory bottle

• Outdoor alphabet hose clean

• Wash toys sensory bin

• Taste safe sand sensory bin

• Pom pom water play

• Colorful water sensory bin

• Frozen water bead sensory play

• Wading pool water play

What are the top 10 summer bucket list items?

This is the ultimate summer bucket list!

And, what I love about it is that I can go back to it for a list of ideas we can try out this summer.

If I had to choose the top 10 summer bucket list ideas for kids, they would be:

• Summer Bucket List Ideas for Toddlers

  • Splash pad fun

  • Wash toys sensory bin

  • Watch a parade

• Summer Bucket List Ideas for Preschool

  • Paint rocks

  • Fish craft for kids

  • Plant a seed

• Summer Bucket List Ideas for Kindergarten

  • Make ice cream

  • Window foam ABC kids activity

  • Outdoor flower color hunt activity

• Summer Bucket List Ideas for Kids

  • Outdoor obstacle course

  • Create DIY bubbles

  • Collect seashells

I may have gone a bit overboard here with 12 ideas instead of 10, but you get the gist of it. 🙂

I categorized this summer bucket list for kids for a differentiated set of ages and our “top 12”.

Ocean Themed Sensory Bottle

How do you write a summer bucket list for kids?

Luckily, I’ve created one for you!

It’s an easy no prep, print and go printable that can be printed and added to a refrigerator or saved on your phone.

You can find the summer bucket list ideas at the very bottom of this post.

Ocean Sensory Bag

Kids Summer Bucket List

If you are looking for a good set of some of the best STEM summer bucket list ideas for kids, here are a set of simple bucket list ideas for ya:

• Build a sandcastle

• Create kool aid playdough

• Make watermelon slime

• Create kinetic sand slime

• Flashlight animal shadows

• Giant bubbles (Karo syrup solution)

• Create 2 ingredient Goop recipe

• Create foam soap

Paper Plate Jellyfish

Bucket list for kids

If you are looking for summer fun list of ideas to try that may take a good small drive to get there, here are some ideas:

• Take a trip to the museum

• Go to the beach

• Build a sandcastle

• Camping trip

• Checkout summer preschool themed library books

• Kid friendly festival or parade

• Collect seashells

• Local farmers market

• Strawberry picking

• Kid friendly hike

• Take a trip to a water park

• Fishing trip

What other fun outdoor ideas can you think of adding to this summer bucket list for kids? Share with me below!

Fish Activity for Toddlers

Indoor Kids bucket list Ideas

A good chunk of our time this summer can look a lot like being indoors.

Here is a good bucket list of ideas we would try in the kitchen as a family:

• Make ice cream

• Make pineapple pizza

• Create popsicles

• Make a delicious desert

• Cook a wholesome meal together

• Bake summer cookies

• Homemade lemonade

Ocean Theme Sticky Wall for Preschool

DIY Summer bucket list for kids

Looking for simple DIY summer ideas to try with the kids this summer?

Here is our list of DIY ideas that are simple and easy and fun:

• Lemonade stand

• Plant paint brushes

• DIY popsicles

• Frozen lego blocks

• Bubble solution

• Rainbow sensory bottle

• DIY slip and slide

• Indoor obstacle course

• Sensory bin

• DIY chalk paint

• Water maze

Preschool Summer Activity Pack

Best summer bucket list ideas

I hope that you enjoyed this creative summer bucket ideas list and that you try some of these out.

I want to hear from you!

What are some fun things you may have tried before for a summer bucket list for kids?

I’m always up for learning easy fun summer activities each and every summer.

Please be sure to share with me in the comments.

Preschool Ocean Activity Pack

Related: Looking for a list of fun summer things for kids to do? Be sure to bookmark this massive list of fun summer activities to do with kids.

And, don’t forget to check out this massive list of outdoor bucket list ideas which we go back to each year.

Here is a list of free and fun ideas for summer that can be printed out:

• Sun worksheets

• Summer printables for kids

• Summer printable

These are a set of educational printables that I made for my LO and I am sharing with you!

It sure saves for a time capsule of ideas and I am so happy it will be helpful for you!

Alright, here is your summer bucket list printable for kids freebie…

Free Printable Summer Bucket List PDF