100 Summer Activites for Kids

Summer is here, and I know that I am always trying to keep the kids busy and having fun.
Here is a list of 100 things that I put together to keep the kids busy this summer.
I plan to print off this list and highlight each one we do.
Hopefully we can do them all before school starts up again.
I hope this gives you some ideas too.

1. Go for a bike ride
2. Make homemade ice cream or visit an ice cream parlor
3. Bake a double batch of cookies and deliver one to another family
4. Learn a few magic tricks and produce your own magic show
5. Have a picnic
6. Hike or climb trees
7. Make popcorn or maybe even caramel corn
8. Blow bubbles
9. Go swimming or water skiing
10. Plan a scavenger hunt for outside. Or plan one for in the house using every letter of the alphabet.
11. Draw a map of your block or of your town, or trace a map of your country and fill in the states or cities or other feature
12. Make playdoh
13. Read a good book aloud
14. Look through photo albums or view family movies, or videos
15. Make a collage from magazine words and pictures
16. Collect some canned goods for the food bank
17. Draw pictures with chalk on the sidewalk
18. Go fishing
19. Plan a family game night
20. Work on a jigsaw puzzle
21. Go roller skating
22. Paint a picture
23. Have a candy treasure hunt
24. Work on a crossword puzzle
25. Try origami (Japanese paper-folding) or make a paper airplane and fly it
26. Make an obstacle course in your back yard
27. Visit a tourist spot near your home
28. Write a poem
29. Make a bird feeder
30. Walk around your block and pick up all the litter you can find.
31. Go to the zoo
32. Go bowling
33. Make your own homemade pizza
34. Invite another family over for a game of charades or "Guesstures"
35. Listen to your favorite music and dance around
36. Go without TV for a day
37. Make a collage using seeds, rice, cereal, old buttons and sewing scraps
38. Run around the block 3 times
39. Open a day spa
40. Go camping–or stay home and camp out in your own dining room.
41. Build with LEGOS
42. Make puppets out of lunch bags, old socks, felt, wooden clothespins. Put on a puppet show
43. Have a bonfire outdoors or in your fireplace and roast hot dogs and marshmallows
44. Write a letter to your best friend
45. Visit a shut-in or an elderly friend or relative in a nursing home
46. Pick wild flowers and press some of them to save
47. Make dinner for your family
48. Sketch a picture of your house from the outside
49. Play educational computer games
50. Find a joke and tell it someone else
51. Make a piece of art out of objects you have around the house
52. Sign up at your local library for their Summer Reading Program
53. Color a picture or write a letter to send to grandparents
54. Make a list together of all the things in your house that use electricity. You might do this when you lose power sometime.
55. Plant something
56. Enjoy a shopping trip for something little, but fun---a jar of bubbles, stickers, paper dolls, a matchbox car
57. Play store, library or school
58. Visit a farm. Milk a cow, help to feed the animals. Take pictures.
59. Play a new sport- badminton, volleyball, tennis, Frisbee, yard darts or ping pong
60. Tour where Dad works
61. Play hide-and-seek (inside or outside)
62. Help wash the car
63. Share a favorite movie with a friend
64. Draw a family tree on paper and complete it as a family. Add old photographs if available
65. Go jogging or take a walk together
66. Give each person a large piece of paper and take turns tracing the outlines of their bodies on it. Color in the outlines to look like you.
67. Jump on a trampoline
68. Go to the library
69. Gather a variety of leaves and identify them
70. Rearrange the furniture in your bedroom
71. Memorize something meaningful: a psalm, a poem, a passage from the Bible, the Gettysburg Address
72. Make caramel apples
73. Fly a kite
74. Jump rope
75. Learn how to make a fortune teller
76. Visit a friend
77. Make a summer snack
78. Read favorite poems aloud
79. Put together a scrapbook describing a favorite vacation or any special event (pictures, writing, souvenirs)
80. If it's warm outside, turn on the water sprinkler and run through it
81. Make a lemonade stand
82. Water the yard, houseplants or flowers
83. Play with sand toys and trucks in a sandbox
84. Swing
85. Play a card game
86. Go to a ball game or play one---football, kickball, softball, baseball, basketball, soccer
87. Finger paint with chocolate pudding
88. Make a milkshake or a smoothie
89. Have a real tea party with some friends
90. Take a trip to an amusement park, a museum or a planetarium
91. Clean out your closet
92. Practice playing a musical instrument. If you don’t play an instrument, try learning to play one, maybe the recorder or the harmonica.
93. Make a yummy salad and eat it
94. Build a fort
95. String beads to make a necklace
96. Write and illustrate a short story
97. Build a robot out of empty boxes of all shapes and sizes. Oatmeal and salt boxes work well
98. Volunteer to help a neighbor for free—just because
99. Play with water guns
100. Make your own list of things to do when you’re bored


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