Our Summer Bucket List and Week Planner
Pick ideas together, then plan one week at a time. Use with kidinfo.com/activities/summer-activities-for-kids/
Name(s): Date:
- Sit down as a family and choose 10–15 ideas. Everyone gets to add at least two.
- Check off each idea when you do it. Repeats are allowed.
- Use the week planner to schedule a few ideas around camps, work and rest days. Leave some days empty on purpose.
Our bucket list
- Run through a sprinkler obstacle course
- Dig a toy out of a frozen ice block
- Play a giant chalk board game
- Sleep out (or camp in) in the backyard
- Make sun prints
- Have a sponge splash relay
- Play neighborhood nature bingo
- Make fruit ice pops
- Keep a cloud journal for a week
- Earn a Junior Ranger badge or do a park ranger challenge
- Borrow a stack of library books
- Watch the sunset together
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This week
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Hot-day checklist
- Sunscreen and hats packed
- Water bottles filled
- Shade spot picked for breaks
- An adult watching any water play, buckets emptied after
- Indoor backup plan if it’s too hot or stormy
Free for home and non-commercial classroom use. Plan around the heat: early mornings and evenings are usually the most comfortable times to play outside.