Creating an educational summer bucket list with your children can be a fun and engaging way to keep learning alive during the break.
Pull out your notebooks and write 10 goals for the summer, or 10 things you want to learn, or 10 things you want to do. Having your children make the list helps make it easier to plan your next studies and carve out interest led summer learning.
Here are some ideas that combine education with summer fun:
1. Visit a museum
2. Take a nature walk or hike
3. Camp in your backyard
4. Start a garden
5. Go geocaching
6. Beach or lake day
7. Go on a bike ride
8. Keep a summer nature journal
9. Create a summer reading challenge
10. Build a sand castle
11. Volunteer as a family at a food bank or animal shelter
12. Make ice cream or popsicles
13. Connect with a pen pal
14. Go swimming
15. Have a lemonade stand
16. Cook or bake a new recipe
17. Raise tadpoles, butterflies, praying mantis or ladybugs
18. Go to a local fair or festival
19. Build a marble run with toilet paper rolls
20. Make your own volcano eruption experiment
21. Play in a creek
22. Catch fireflies at night
23. Make sun art
24. Go stargazing at night
25. Have a backyard bonfire with s’mores
26. Water balloon toss
27. Make homemade lemonade
28. Practice a sport
29. Visit a farmers market
30. Watch fireworks
31. Make homemade playdough
32. Play flashlight tag
33. Create an obstacle course
34. Pick fresh berries
35. Visit a splash pad
36. Make your own kite and fly it
37. Go fishing
38. Learn a new instrument
39. Make sun tea
40. Tie dye t-shirts
41. Have a family movie night with build your own ice cream sundae bar and homemade popcorn
42. Go to a drive in movie
43. Make an ocean themed sensory bin
44. Play a family yard game like corn hole, bocce ball or ring toss
45. Visit the zoo or aquarium
46. Paint kindness rocks to place around your town
47. Go on a nature scavenger hunt
48. Have a homemade pizza night
49. Make a DIY solar oven
50. Explore a new park
