Even though we’ve never done one before we’ve decided to make a bucket list for the summer!
Usually we like things to be low key and laid back in the summertime, but then we came up with the idea of old school activities for children!
You know what I mean–all of the fun summertime activities that we used to do when we were younger.
We decided to come up with an old school summer bucket list!
Some of the activities on the list are ones we love, some we don’t do enough, and some we haven’t done before, but all of them are ones we want to pass down to our children.
I’m excited to share some of my childhood with my kids!
Old School Summer Bucket List (so far):
1. Play kick the can.
2. Make paper airplanes.
3. Build a fort.
4. Make friendship bracelets.
5. Go swimming after dark.
6. Make sun tea.
7. Sing jump rope songs.
8. Play hopscotch.
9. Camp out in the backyard.
11. Have a picnic.
12. Blow bubbles.
13. Have a water balloon fight.
14. Host a lemonade stand.
15. Make popsicles.
16. Play clapping games like Miss Mary Mack (Mack Mack).
18. Tie dye a shirt.
19. Catch fireflies.
20. Find constellations.
21. Have a hose fight.
22. Play Marco Polo.
23. Slide down the slip ‘n slide.
24. Roast marshmallows over the fire.
25. Play manhunt.
26. Play spoons.
27. Decorate our bikes.
28. Go fishing.
29. Play flashlight tag.
30. Tell spooky stories.
31. Play UNO.
32. Make pet rocks.
33. Run through the sprinkler.
34. Play whiffle ball.
35. Play Spit.
36. Eat ice cream in our pajamas.
37. Go to a drive in movie.
38. Play kickball.
39. Hula hoop.
40. Make ice cream.
These are some of the activities we are going to do this summer–I can’t wait!
What about you? What would you add to an “old school” bucket list for summer?
Brilliant post, Megan! I felt like your list was a compilation of someone who had a tape of my summers through high school. I am going to do many of these with my young grandsons and will keep this post to continue to move through the list as they reach the ages to do the rest of the activities! Thank you!
That’s fantastic! I’m looking forward to a fun, lazy summer and wish you the same!
Fabulous! Now this is OUR kind of list 🙂
Awww! Thanks! It was the only kind of bucket list I could commit to for the summer!
I love this list!! One question, what is spit? That is not something we ever played in my neighborhood!
It’s a card game! I’ll have to do it soon so I can post about it! It’s fun!
I always feel so heartbroken that my kids can’t camp out in the backyard. It’s just not the same on a fire escape. lol This is a wonderful list, though.
LOL! You need to pretend camp one night in the family room then! You can sleep in a fort and tell spooky stories! No animals. No bugs. And you could secretly sneak back into your bed to sleep if you wanted to!
Great list! Fun ideas
Thanks Carli!!!
Love the list and I plan to use it, but I would like to give fair warning on the lemonade stand one. Kids can only do a lemonade stand if they get a permit. Seriously. You have to obtain a business permit or the cops will shut down your stand. So before you encourage your young ones to do a lemonade stand, look into the permit for your area and prevent a heartbroken child.
So crazy!!!! Maybe we’ll have to have a backyard one then…
Making mud pies
Freeze tag
Leave a jigsaw puzzle set up on a table for rainy days or quiet activity during the heat of the day or evening time.
Red light Green light
Hop scotch
Make ‘stilts’ out of the big cans that pineapple juice comes in.
LOVE these!!!! How could I have left mud pies off????
I was thinking also of:
Red Rover, Red Rover and
Simon “says”
I could think of a whole bunch more, I just don’t have the recollection I used to have.
I so love reading this, even though I don’t have any children, I think of my childhood fondly.
Thanks for posting.
I forgot about Red Rover too!!!!! I may break that one out tonight!!! 🙂
In addition to paper airplanes…after a big rain storm, make paper boats and find a small stream to “sail” them
LOVE that idea!!!!!!
Great post! 🙂