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Summer Bucket List
100 Fun Things to do this Summer with Your Kids
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s a parent, summer is the perfect time to unwind and spend all the quality time you can with your children. All school
year long we are faced with busy schedules including work, taking the kids to school and helping with homework which
leaves very little time to have fun. For this reason when summer break comes around it is a time to relax, have fun and
focus on spending time with your children. What better way to ensure a spectacular summer vacation than create a summer
fun bucket list for your kids? A bucket list helps plan this exciting time and provides them many thing to look forward to. There
are so many great activities to do that will make summer unforgettable for you and your kids. Below we have rounded up
100 fun things to do with your kids this summer.
Feeder. 31 Make a tree swing. 32 Play dodgeball.
1 Go to weekly movies in the park. 2 Have a picnic
33 Play hopscotch. 34 Play in the yard sprinkler.
with the family. 3 Go camping in the backyard. 4 Go to
35 Go visit the Civil Rights Museum in Birmingham.
a baseball game and watch the Birmingham Barons. 5
36 Create cards with your own design. 37 Paint
Participate in a local library reading club. 6 Go fishing.
7 Plant your own flower garden. 8 Fly a kite. 9 Make some rocks. 38 Build a fort. 39 Have a water balloon
fight. 40 Play hula hoops. 41 Play Frisbee. 42
your own pizza. 10 Make a huge sandcastle at the
Make tie-die t-shirts. 43 Go to a firework show. 44 Lay
sandy beach area of Oak Mountain State Park. 11 Dance
down on the grass and cloud watch. 45 Eat watermelon
in the rain. 12 Go on a nature hike. 13 Explore the
with friends. 46 Make an airplane from paper. 47
Birmingham Museum of Art. 14 Go to the Birmingham
Create a paperboat and race them on the water. 48
Zoo and meet different kinds of animals. 15 Go jump
Make necklace beads. 49 Explore a pond. 50 Go to
on trampolines at the Airwalk Trampoline Area. 16
an outdoor concert. 51 Create a bottle piggy bank. 52
Make a nook for reading books. 17 Bake cookies and
Watch the sunrise. 53 Watch the sunset. 54 Pillow
take them to the local fire station to share. 18 Make
fight with mom and dad. 55 Go on a family bike ride.
your own homemade ice cream. 19 Find some ducks to
56 Find a splash pad to play in. 57Have a water gun
feed. 20 Go visit the local farmers market. 21 Pick
fight with friends. 58 Learn how to sew. 59 Visit the
berries. 22 Go to the Alabaster City Fest. 23 Start
Barber Motorsports Museum in Birmingham. 60 Go
a collection (rocks, coins, shells etc). 24 Go tour the
to vacation bible school. 61 Draw with sidewalk chalk.
Blue Bell Factory and see how ice cream is made. 25
62 Jump in mud puddles. 63 Play mini golf. 64
Make homemade popsicles. 26 Catch fireflies. 27
Stay in your pjs all day. 65 Put on a puppet show. 66
Try horseback riding with parents. 28 Enjoy a new park.
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