100 Activities for Summer

Here is the list of idea I have for my family to do this summer. Some probably won't make sense and others might not be available to you (I added alternate suggestions in italics). As I post the projects, I will add links back on this main page. We've already scratched off 3 things from the list, one being the Shadow Tracing I posted yesterday. I know today is scheduled to be an art project, and if I can get it done and posted between our weekly lunch date with dad and work I will. Otherwise look for it next week. (In other words, don't really look for it later today, it is highly unlikely to be here!)

1. Visit a ghost town
2. Go to a baseball game
3. Go to the drive-in
4. Go to an outdoor movie at the park (or watch a movie in your own backyard)
5. Squeeze an egg experiment
6. Ice cream in a bag
7. Ice excavating
8. Make frozen peanut butter balls
9. Make a nature I-spy bag
10. Homemade shrinky dinks
11. Kid bike wash
12. Frisbee golf
13. I-spy walk
14. Make gak
15. Feed the ducks
16. Go to a splash pad (or any water park)
17. Make homemade play dough
18. Go camping
19. Picnic by "our bridge" (or a place that is special to you)
20. Make frozen bananas 
21. Make friendly fireflies (or catch/watch fireflies if you are lucky enough to live where they live)
22. Build marshmallow structures
23. Make sidewalk paint
24. Camp in the backyard in a tent
25. Go for a train ride (or some mode of transportation you don't normally use - bus, boat, etc.)
26. Visit a beach
27. Get snow cones
28. Make hot rocks
29. Create a photo alphabet book
30. Grow grass heads
31. Go on a family hike
32. Make homemade popsicles
33. Build a bird feeder with Grandpa
34. Make and blow bubbles
35. Go on a treasure hunt
36. Play in the backyard pool
37. Play in the sprinklers
38. Ride bikes and scooters
39. Draw with sidewalk chalk
40. Grow alfalfa sprouts
41. Trace shadows
42. Build a marble run
43. Make a foamerator
44. Construct a marshmallow shooter
45. Go star gazing
46. Make and float a soap boat
47. Mix Mentos and diet cola
48. Make a balloon rocket
49. Play on a slip 'n' slide
50. Hammer nails into a stump
51. Make pinwheels
52. Play mini golf
53. Find bugs
54. Send a letter to "someone special"
55. Make black magic art/Sgraffito/a scratchboard
56. Draw and sew "string bean" stuffed people
57. Make a hummingbird feeder
58. Visit a garden 
59. Do marble painting
60. Make thumb print art
61. Do coffee filter painting
62. Make cornstarch clay creatures
63. Go on a family bike ride
64. Have a stuffed animal picnic with "flat food"
65. Make an emerald tree boa
66. Paint with glue and shaving cream
67. Make fireworks prints
68. Create twig designs
69. Make a honeycomb hive
70. Make sand playdough
71. Do some corn syrup painting
72. Build a rubber band board
73. Go on a color walk
74. Find floaters and sinkers
75. Make mudpies & mud bricks
76. Make coffee filter butterflies
77. Visit the city library and get library cards
78. Make rain/glitter bottles
79. Do" pretty as a peacock" project
80. Visit a farm
81. Make "worms at work"
82. Make a whirligig
83. Build a bug hotel
84. Visit the aviary (or go bird watching)
85. Go fishing
86. Make newspaper hats/boats
87. Go on a seedy sock walk
88. Wash the car
89. Take apart a machine
90. Make a garbage viewer
91. Create a batik with glue
92. Visit the zoo
93. Bake cookies in the car
94. Go geocaching
95. Have a water drop race
96. Join & participate in library's summer reading program
97. Make inside dirt
98. Make old fashioned phones with cups and string
99. Attend an outdoor concert
100. Volunteer or service project

 

This post was linked to:

The Thrifty Home

Women Who Do it All 
Gluesticks (Super fun summer stuff on her site!) 
Come Together Kids (Ongoing fun summer ideas!)