Summer Bucket List
This is a list of fun activities I wrote a long time ago when my older kids were much younger and before my youngest was born. We haven’t don’t everything. Only 60 as far as I remember. We are going to give this list another try since my three youngest don’t remember anything, and my oldest barely do. They do want to make their own list which I am open for. We’ve been busy with Eid, post Eid and renovations. Since we are renovating half of the house and planning on moving them to that half to do the other half we are also busy packing up their stuff which is hard since we are still living here and they are using a lot of it.
Anyway, as soon as we write sa new list I will post it inshallah.
Honesty, they didn’t bounce. They didn’t pop as fast as regular bubbles do so they were a lot of fun.
Recipe:
1 cup water
1 tablespoon dish soap
1 teaspoon glycerine (I found some at the pharmacy)
Let it is for 24 hours. I kept it in a jar.
A glove or sock helps so the bubbles don’t pop, even without them they didn’t pop quickly and were a lot of fun!
Make s’mores in a solar oven (it is so hot here that it actually melted the chocolate. I remember even back then I had workers and renovations going so we did it late in the afternoon after the workers left and the sun wasn’t as hot. We definitely need to try this again at noon and I’ll post the results.
Walk on sand with stamped flip flops.
Put on a puppet show.
Bake cookies.
Bake cupcakes.
Have a picnic. (indoors if it’s too hot)
Watch old cartoons. (We watched classics like Tom & Jerry and Donald Duck)
Have a donut in a coffee shop.
Make a den with the couch coushions.
Plant seeds and watch them grow.
Build an amazing Lego creation. (I bought this Lego Kit to try with the kids.)
Play a game of cards. (We always play Go fish)
Play UNO.
Pretend to be airplanes.
Make a home cinema including tickets and popcorn.
Do some cloud watching.
Make some pancake art. (I used an empty plastic squeeze bottle.)
Make homemade pizza.
Do a science experiment. (We made flying tea bags.)
Make sun prints. (You will find more science experiments here too.)
Draw chalk art outside.
Play a board game.
Nature rubbings.
Photographic alphabet.
Make a smoothie.
Recipe: (my original recipe from back then.)
One pineapple, peeled and chopped
One tall glass of orange juice. (5 oranges)
250 grams of frozen strawberries.
Make a milkshake.
Make a time capsule.
Make a marble run.
Make our family tree
Play rock paper scissors. (who knew how fun that could be!)
Write and send a letter.
Make popsicles.
Do a random act of kindness.
Learn about a different country.
Play hopscotch.
Play Restaraunt.
Draw around yourself on a big piece of paper and decorate it. (I used these awesome rolls of paper from Ikea)
Jump rope.
Play limbo.
Make a dominos line.
Make sock puppets.
Use a basket and string to hoist stuffed animals upstairs.
Write a story. I found these cute half written cartoons that could help inspire the kids.
Play freeze tag.
Have a water balloon fight.
Make lemonade.
Bake an apple pie.
Dinner by candle light.
Play charades.
Dress up and take photos.
Learn something new.
Play tic tack toe.
Build a Lego tower.
Go out for ice cream.
Play jenga.
Toast marshmallows.
Chalk and sponge targets.
Play eye spy.
Play musical statutes.
Origami. (We made butterflies.)
Have a three legged race.
Water bucket relay race.
Play carrom.
Make paper pinwheels. (I used during in stead a pin, I tied it in triple knots on both sides and then trimmed the string and it worked fine.
Play with huge balloons.
Learn how to make bubble gum bubbles.
Go out for breakfast.
Take a photo a day.
Watch the sunrise. (I have never accomplished this with my kids, I never want to volunteeringly was them up on vacation!)
Have a bubble bath.
Make a balloon-cup-shooter.
Make ice cream floats. (My older kids love root beer floats, a childhood favorite for me. I love that!)
Go night swimming with glow sticks.
Complete a DIY Project.
Tie dye t shirts.
Ride a rollercoaster.
Go bowling.
Photobooth.
Visit pet store.
Write a book together.
Make homemade pasta.
Balloon animals. (Harder than you think!)
Hold a Mario Kart tournament.
Have a water gun fight.
Play Hangman. (I remember my kids enjoyed it more than I expected!)
Do a puzzle together.
Have a connect four tournament.
Make something from Pinterest. (We made a lego candy dispenser.) & Hot dog octopus which the first time was a fail and the second time was much better. I cut the hot dogs in half which helped the “tentacles” curl and look for octopus like.
Make slush. (My kids idea and they loved it of course.
Recipe: (my recipe and notes from back then.)
200 ml of juice
100 ml of water
Pour in a shallow container and freeze for one hour. Take out, mix ice crystals. Put back in freezer for another half hour and repeat. It says it should be ready to serve but it took longer in my freezer. Maybe because my freezer is so full so I couldn’t put it deep inside? But the important thing is to keep checking on it and mixing so you don’t get big pieces of ice.
Have dessert for breakfast, we had marshmallow sandwiches between slices of french toast. It was delicious and the kids loved it!
I found more than weren’t in my notebook, that I had posted on YOU-app. I will add them tomorrow.