60 Summer Bucket List Ideas for Toddlers to Teens!

Bust past cries of summer boredom with your own, completely customized, summer bucket list! Today, we’re sharing with you how we made our fun summer bucket list color-in poster plus a list of summer bucket list ideas for toddlers, grade school kids, teens, and families to help you fill in your charts with your own perfect activities to fill your summer break!

How to Make a Summer Bucket List Poster

We started off our summer break talking about all the things we wanted to do together as a family this summer. They could be little things, like catching fireflies in the backyard or eating watermelon. We decided to make a celebration out of all things summer and include both big and small things we wanted to do during our summer break. My boys are on year round school, so we have just the month of July off to enjoy.

I picked up a large white poster board from the dollar store. Then, we wrote out a list of what we wanted to include on our poster and I started writing and drawing (what was easy enough to draw) out all of the ideas onto our poster.

It took us about an hour in total to create our summer bucket list poster! From here, we’ll color in the activities as we’ve completed them and at the end of summer break we’ll have a fun and colorful poster showing off all of the things we’ve done together as a family this summer!

15 Summer Bucket List Ideas for Toddlers

1. Attend a library program
2. Go to a splash pad
3. Have a playdate
4. Build a house from boxes
5. Ride on a train
6. Play at a restaurant playspace
7. Color with sidewalk chalk
   
8. Blow bubbles
9. Play with a parachute (or large blanket in it’s place)
10. Paint rocks
11. Experiment with a sensory bin
12. Have a bubble bath
13. Make homemade playdoh
14. Go to a puppet show
15. Play at a local museum

15 Bucket List Ideas for Grade School Kids

1. Make a treasure hunt
2. Set up an obstacle course
3. Build a blanket fort
4. Ride bikes
5. Pick berries
   
6. Attend a summer camp
7. Make friendship bracelets
8. Set-up a sprinkler under the trampoline
9. Play hide-‘n-go-seek
10. Fly a kite
11. Eat ice cream
12. Have a Nerf war
13. Read 10 books
14. Make S’mores
15. Try science experiments

15 Ideas for Teen Summer Bucket Lists

1. Go to the movies
2. Have a sleepover
3. Go for a walk
4. Visit a theme park
5. Have a water balloon fight
6. Play sardines
7. Put together puzzles
8. Design a board game
9. Bake cookies
10. Make your own t-shirt design
11. Go to the lake
12. Join a sports camp
13. Challenge a friend to a game of “HORSE” in basketball
14. Learn a new skill
15. Visit a skate park

15 Summer Bucket List Ideas for Families

1. Visit a drive-in movie theater
2. Go to a concert in the park
3. Have a family sleepover in the living room
4. Find a summer job
5. Go to a farmer’s market
6. Go on a hike
7. Have a family picnic
8. Go to a family reunion
9. Go to the beach
10. Go fishing
    
11. Go camping
12. Host a barbecue
13. Go on a stay-cation around your local city
14. Play board games together
15. Plan 1-on-1 date nights

What other fun family summer bucket list ideas do you have? We’d love to hear even more fun ideas we can all add to our summer plans. Leave your summer fun ideas in the comments to help add to the list!