Here, you will find over 100 activities & crafts to help keep kids happy, playing, and un-bored! Let's make this the BEST Summer yet!
Summer Bucket List of Activities for Kids
- Make ice cream in a bag.
- Explore science with chalk rockets.
- Make your own sidewalk squirty chalk.
- Paint with squirt guns.
- Make kinetic sand.
- Make your own sidewalk foam paint.
- Try one of these super cool chalk art ideas.
- Cool off a hot day with ice paint.
- Make bottle rockets.
- Use empty TP rolls to make bird feeders.
- If you don't have TP rolls on hand here are 25 other ways to make a bird feeder with the kids this summer.
- Explore with super bubbles.
- Play in an air-fort.
- Make a sand volcano.
- Keep the kids busy with a GIANT water blob.
- Make mini water blobs.
- Make solar s'mores.
- Get crafty & make your own wind chimes.
- Play with GIANT bubbles.
- Play water balloon smash.
- Wow the kids with exploding sidewalk chalk.
- Build a sunflower fort.
- Grow a tepee from beans.
- Grow a bean in a jar.
- Make your own slip-n-slide.
- Make a sprinkler from an empty plastic bottle.
- Have a blast with sponge bombs.
- Play messy Twister.
- Have squirt gun races.
- Cool things off with a kiddie car wash.
- Make your own water shooters.
- Play with sponge bombs.
- Set up a bubbly outdoor ball pit.
- Play "Roll 6 & Splash!"
- Try the color changing flower experiment.
- Make glow-in-the-dark chalk.
- Make chalk pops!
- Capture a fairy.
- Grow your own fairy garden.
- Go glow-in-the-dark bowling.
- Make your own bouncy balls.
- Try one of these amazing tie-dying techniques.
- Paint with water balloons.
- Keep the kids busy with a water wall.
- Blow bubble snakes.
- Try painting with bubbles.
- Paint with glow-in-the-dark bubbles.
- Make your own bubbles using one of these amazing bubbles recipes.
- Play Nerf target games.
- Go tin can bowling.
- Make & play with homemade colored sand.
- Turn pool noodles into these fun summer crafts & activities.
- Get ready for the beach with these ocean themed crafts for kids.
- Make shark slime.
- Turn play sand into sand slime!
- Make summer themed crafts using paper plates.
- Set up summer activity jars.
- Use straws to make bubble shooters.
- Try ice painting.
- Make a mason jar aquarium.
- Make shark puppets.
- Keep kids learning this summer with these backyard engineering projects.
- Play lawn Twister.
- Play sidewalk chalk checkers.
- Make glowing ice chalk.
- Play "Fill the Bucket".
- Cool off with water balloon baseball.
- Grow your own avocado tree.
- Have a shaving cream battle.
- Make your own bean bag toss game.
- Play sponge ball.
- Build your own backyard sprinkler park.
- Get the kids in the garden with this collection of summer activities for kids.
- Play backyard scrabble.
- Create big art with paint filled eggs.
- Become a human bubble.
- Make a water slide from a pool noodle.
- Make rain clouds in a jar.
- Host a family Olympics.
- Play swimming pool scrabble.
- Use Frisbees to play Tic-Tac-Toss.
- Make sailboats from empty bottles.
- Use egg cartons to make toy airplanes.
- Play GIANT Jenga.
- Fight that boredom with these DIY paper spinners.
- Build your own fort out of newspaper.
- Make GIANT bubble art.
- Use chalk to make floating chalk art.
- WOW the kids with fireworks in a jar.
- Keep kids creating with this collection of chalk art ideas.
- Make a glow-in-the-dark volcano.
- Make a volcano from ice.
- Play with ice eggs!
- Build a lemonade stand from cardboard.
- Make aqua sand!
- Build and create with rock slime.
- Paint the rain
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Whew! There you have it! 150 Summer Play Ideas!
There are so many activities on this list I am hoping to get to this Summer, and time is just flying by! We better get busy! How many do you think you can fit in?
