Summer Bucket List Party 2012

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You can see how our summer bucket list started in this post.  We have enjoyed doing a summer bucket list for a few years now.  We sit down and talk about what everyone is looking forward to doing for summer(which is an adventure in itself).  I write our list out, add a few fun twists, and throw it all in a bucket. 

The activities are color coded for how much time an activity will take.  I printed our activities on colored scrapbook paper and then we put the slips in our bucket.  The kids take turns choosing a slip accordingly.  I try to have most of the necessary supplies on hand so we can get right down to the fun.  Some of our activities need to be planned, like our road trip with Nana or outdoor concerts, so they will be on the calendar already.  Some days we won't pull a slip at all and other days we might throw it back and try for a different slip. 

Full Day(the aqua blue slips of paper)

Make and fly kites

Make homemade bread and jam

Visit a Chinatown

Visit a national park

Visit a museum

Visit the zoo

Traveling story hour (museums, butterfly houses, gardens, forests, pizza parlor)
Explore a nearby town
Make a Smash Book of our summer

Have a fairy tea party

Have a hungry Caterpillar party

Have a snow cone stand

Host an Olympic game day

Host a summer reading book exchange party

Go to the beach (take a ferryboat ride while we're there) 

Go to a baseball game
Find a volunteer project to complete

Half Day(the hot pink slips of paper)

Build robots from recycled items
Make a biosphere

Play at a new park

Go for a picnic (breakfast, lunch, or dinner)

See an outdoor movie

Lego block scavenger hunt and building challenge

Fill the kiddy pool and add bubble bath

Make sponge water bombs and play outside

Make a paper bag book

Have a hot dog roast

Make up a new recipe

Make granitas
Make paletas (Mexican popsicles)

Visit a music store and explore instruments
Take a bus ride downtown

About 2 Hours or Less (the lime green slips of paper)

Make a shell necklace

Make a freezer pie
Make bread and butter pickles

Make fun soaps on a rope

Make and grow a bonsai garden

Make a salamander habitat

Make a worm habitat

Make a water scope and look in the pond

Find and watch an anthill

Decorate lap desks

Make splat paintings

Parachute play

Make vacation memory jars

Walk to a favorite dinner spot

Have a midnight buffet (at 8:00 pm though!)

Stargaze

Make sun catchers

Make a tablecloth

Make felted rocks

Make rock candy

Go on a bug hunt

Play putt putt golf

Take the art easel outside and paint

Paint sticks

Play water balloon basketball
Make a mermaid's garden or an octopus's garden

Planned Events and Everyday Summer Fun

Road trip with Nana

Vacation Bible School

Ride bikes, scooters, plasma cars

Go to the pool
Go to a concert

Read, read, and read! and Write, write, and write!

Sign up for a summer reading program

Pick blueberries

International Food Passport- Make a passport of countries and go to restaurants or make something at home.  Stamp them off as we go.

Blow bubbles, toss balls, play hopscotch, color with sidewalk chalk

Eat the foods of summer- lots of berries, melons, and peaches, roasted corn and fresh veggies, make popsicles, ice cream, s’mores, and lemonade!

Visit farmer’s markets

Watch fireworks
Catch fireflies
Play in the garden

Even though summer doesn't officially start until late June, we'll start our summer bucket list when the kids get out of school, which is the first week of June. We have yet to complete a summer bucket list, but that's okay, we have fun trying!  You can see our 2011 list here and our 2010 list here. 

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The party rules are pretty simple....

1. Link up your summer bucket lists that are kid/family friendly.
2. Include a party button or text link on your post or blog.
3. Have fun reading some other links.

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I link to these parties, Linking to The Educators' Spin On It