100+ Awesome Summer Bucket List Ideas

Make this the best summer ever with these fun summer bucket list ideas. Or use these bucket list ideas to create your very own family bucket list for this summer! Anything to get you playing and enjoying the summer season to its fullest!

What Is A Bucket List?

If you’ve never made a bucket list before, they’re the best. A lot of people have bucket lists full of items they want to do sometime in their life. Maybe a travel bucket list of places they want to travel or a seasonal bucket list of things they want to do this summer. It’s basically a list of things you want to accomplish within a set amount of time.

While some people like to put together say a lifetime bucket list, I prefer to make bucket lists for short periods of time such as the summer. This year our summer is the shortest it has ever been with my son going to kindergarten in the fall – that means we only have three months to finish everything on our summer bucket list!

100 Summer Bucket List Ideas

Everyone’s bucket list can be a little different, but these bucket list ideas should hopefully be enough to get you started with creating your own!

This list has 100 ideas of fun things to do this summer, things you can do with kids or without. I tried to make them generic enough that they were things everyone can do, not just people who live in the DFW area like we do. If you want to use this one, you can click here to download the free printable summer bucket list.

1.  Go to Mount Puppy or another imaginary destination from this list
2. Go on a bike ride
3. Make popsicles like these ocean blue ones with gummy sharks inside
4. Build a fort
5. Do a cartwheel
6. Roll down a hill
7. Bury your toes in the sand
8. Fly a kite
9. Jump over the waves
10. Build a sandcastle
11. Go to a drive-in movie theater
12. Eat a hot dog straight from the grill
13. Go on a picnic and a picnic scavenger hunt
14. Have a water fight
15. Play one of these outdoor water games
16. Have a watermelon seed spitting contest
17. Have a family board game tournament
18. Go to a carnival
19. Listen to an outdoor concert
20. Go to a waterpark
21. Do a cannonball
22. Play in the sprinklers
23. Watch fireworks
24. Sit in a hammock
25. Buy something at a garage sale
26. Create your own lemonade stand
27. Eat a snow cone
28. Go to some sort of festival
29. Bake cookies and give them to someone else with these treat tags
30. Make root beer floats
31. Watch a movie on the big screen
32. Go to a farmer’s market
33. Get a temporary tattoo
34. Watch early morning cartoons
35. Snuggle in bed during a summer thunderstorm
36. Have an indoor campout or if the  weather cooperates, go camping
37. Get books to read at the library
38. Play kickball
39. Swim in a lake
40. Make homemade pizza
41. Catch fireflies
42. Watch a sunset
43. Go on a roadtrip
44. Build a sand castle
45. Learn something new
46. Make something explode
47. Go to an amusement park
48. Dance it out
49. Eat a funnel cake
50. Volunteer somewhere
51. Paint something
52. Make one of these easy summer crafts
53. Jump in puddles
54. Make and play a backyard game
55. Eat breakfast for dinner
56. Go on a staycation
57. Collect seashells
58. Go ice blocking
59. Stay up past midnight
60. Pick berries
61. Eat ice cream before it melts
62. Make s’mores
63. Have a water balloon fight
64. Play beach ball volleyball
65. Plant flowers
66. Get a mosquito bite
67. Eat corn on the cob
68. Travel somewhere you’ve never been
69. Go to a museum
70. Find a dinosaur
71. Spend a day barefoot
72. Lay on grass and look at the stars
73. Drink ice cold lemonade
74. Have a family slumber party
75. Swing on the swings
76. Go to a baseball game
77. Send a postcard
78. Go to a fair
79. Go to camp
80. Hike a mountain
81. Run a race
82. Take a picture by a colored wall
83. Make homemade ice cream
84. Relax in a lazy river
85. Ride a roller coaster
86. Order pizza at the pool
87. Buy a new pair of sandals (these Sanuks are my favorite)
88. Go fishing
89. Play frisbee
90. Drink a tropical drink
91. Go to a splash pad
92. Sleep in
93. Find a sunflower
94. Float in a pool
95. Wave a flag
96. Try 12 flavors of ice cream
97. Have a backyard BBQ
98. Go see a show
99. Find a double rainbow
100. Play until the daylight is gone

Make Your Own Summer Bucket List

The best part about a bucket list is that it should be all your own. I’ve given you 100+ ideas of things to do this summer. Feel free to pick and choose from this list of summer bucket list ideas and create one that’s perfect for your own family! And unlike my list, feel free to get specific. If there’s a place you want to eat, add that specific restaurant to your list. Oh and don’t forget to plan an imaginary adventure to one of these fun filled destinations.

Free Printable Summer Bucket List

Enter your first name and email address in the form below to print! You will be taken directly to the PDF of the game and received an email copy as well. If you do not see a form, please click here to get to it!

Make sure to pin these summer bucket list ideas for later! 

A Bucket List Kind of Summer

This summer is a special one for my family. My sister and brother-in-law moved in with us just for the summer. It’s the first time we’ve ever had family living with us, and it’s amazing! They’ve been taking my son on daily adventures while I get some work done, and then we all play together as a family at night.

It’s also a special summer for Radio Flyer as they celebrate their 100th anniversary this year. Radio Flyer was started 100 years ago by creator Antonio Pasin with the dream to bring joy to every boy and every girl. I’d say he succeeded since Radio Flyer is still the most loved brand for kids’ wheels and still in the business of fostering play and imagination in kids 100 years later.

  

As part of the 100th year anniversary celebration, Radio Flyer created a Travel Agency just for kids. Talk about an amazing bucket list item! Instead of planning trips to normal places like Disney World, the kids were able to come to the travel agency and both plan and go on trips to places like Mount Puppy and Cotton Candy Swamp!

I showed my son this video, and he decided right then and there we needed to go to Mount Puppy. Forget Daytona Beach or Gulf Shores, my kid just wants to head to Mount Puppy this summer.

A visit to Mount Puppy was the first thing we added to our summer bucket list. The second thing? Go on a bike ride. My son isn’t quite ready yet for a two-wheeler, so we used the Radio Flyer Build-A-Trike option and built him a tricycle that’s perfect for all of our adventures. It’s red, has his name, and even has a basket in the back for bringing along his friends.

And it was perfect for our first summer bike ride – a bike ride to Mount Puppy.

  

Enter to Win Your Own Radio Flyer Wheels

Would your kids love a set of Radio Flyer wheels of their own? Radio Flyer is currently hosting a Stars & Stripes Giveaway where they’re giving away a different set of wheels every day in June. Today’s prize is a Radio Flyer 3-in-1 EZ Fold Wagon and who knows what tomorrow’s prize will be! You can get full details and enter the giveaway here.

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Radio Flyer. The opinions and text are all mine.