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Summer Bucket List Ideas

post #1 of 16
3/26/12 at 11:25am
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I've noticed a few of you have started making a summer bucket list. Care to share some of your maybe it will inspire some frugal fun for others!!!

 

 

Our bucket list so far

1. complete our photo alphabet for a Christmas project

2. hit a different park each week

3. One cheap theatre movie a month

4. Each kid gets to make dinner and pick the menu once a week

5. Make kites and attempt to fly them

6. Make mini carboard boats(think rigatta style) and attempt to float them in the small creak near our home

 

 

Thats a few things my kids have put on our list  what are some things you have on your list?

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post #2 of 16
3/26/12 at 3:20pm

Okay, I know this isn't what you were looking for, but mine are pretty simple:

 

Get through both DD18's graduation and DD23's wedding without a hitch.  smile.gif

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post #3 of 16
5/16/12 at 3:11pm

Actually go on a road trip. Still waiting for DH to give me the dates. He wanted the reservations made by May 1st and it is now the 16th and he hasn't been able to tell me when he can take off LOL. I really hope we finally get a vacation I want out of our city for a week and I want to be more than 100 miles from home. 

 

We haven't had a vacation in more than 10 years - well vacation yes but not more than a 100 miles from home. I need more than a staycation this year. I need a change of scenery big time. I want to go explore and I think I need some big trees. 

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post #4 of 16
5/17/12 at 10:38am

Discovery Station (local science museum)

Hershey Park

Smithsonian museums (not sure which yet)

Water park

Zoo

Railroad museum

$1 Movies

Libray each week - we're doing the summer reading program

Park or pool each week

Art class at museum

Lego camp for dd9

Japan camp for dd6

 

I want to do one or two weeks of  at home science camp but I haven't planned it out. 

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post #5 of 16
5/30/12 at 7:38am

zoo

science museum and science center

$1 movies

different park each week

legoland

water park

six flags

city pass for our staycation

skateboard camp ds10

horsebackriding camp dd13 and dd 8

planning for a true vacation for October or December (waiting on dates from hubby *sigh)

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post #6 of 16
6/2/12 at 6:22am

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post #7 of 16
6/2/12 at 6:30am

Here are some general Summer Bucket List ideas that you can feel free to borrow for your list:

 

  • Go camping
  • Go to a baseball game
  • Go to the zoo
  • Visit grandparents
  • Have a lemonade stand
  • Have a garage sale
  • Visit a "U-Pick" farm
  • Eat corn on the cob
  • Have a watermelon seed spitting contest
  • Watch fireworks
  • Fly a kite
  • Go on a boat ride
  • Ride a train
  • Build a model airplane
  • Catch fireflies
  • Make s'mores
  • Make homemade ice cream
  • Go to a drive-in theater
  • Go bowling
  • Play mini golf
  • Organize a scavenger hunt
  • Go on a photo safari
  • Attend an outdoor concert
  • Picnic in the park
  • Go to a museum
  • Go swimming at the pool
  • Go swimming in the lake
  • Look for constellations
  • Ice cream bar
  • Horseback riding
  • Badminton
  • Volleyball
  • Croquet
  • Ladderball
  • Feed the ducks
  • Blow bubbles
  • Sparklers
  • Geocaching/Letterboxing
  • Re-arrange your bedroom furniture
  • Have a squirt gun fight
  • Go to a parade
  • Attend a county fair
  • Go fishing
  • Tie-dye t-shirts
  • Go to an amusement park
  • Volunteer
  • Hot dogs on the campfire
  • Run a 5K
  • Organize a neighborhood party
  • Run through the sprinkler
  • Set up the Slip N Slide
  • Collect sea shells/rocks/etc.
  • Have a pajama day
  • Bird watching
  • Make popsicles
  • Look for shapes in the clouds
  • Make a YouTube video
  • Put on a play
  • Attend a play
  • Go on a snipe hunt
  • Play Kick the Can
  • Play sponge tag
  • Dodge ball
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post #8 of 16
6/2/12 at 7:07am

What are some bucket list ideas for older kids/teens?  My daughter and her friend (they're going in to 7th grade) want to do a bucket list project this summer and I'm trying to help them think of ideas.

 

  • Volunteer
  • Earn $100
  • Start a blog
  • Put on a play
  • Make a YouTube video
  • Send a message in a bottle
  • Ride a roller coaster
  • Write a song

 

Can you help me add to their list?

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post #9 of 16
6/2/12 at 4:43pm

Okay, we have decided to do an alphabet bucket list.  Here are a few examples:

 

A is for Airport.  My kids LOVE going to the airport to watch the fedex planes, something we usually only do when we have to go pick someone up or drop them off.  I told them we would go just for the fun of it....and maybe even eat at Backyard Burger inside.  :) 

 

B is for Baseball Game.  They wanted to go to a Redbirds game....which they ended up getting to do FOR FREE because my work handed out tickets, including tickets for CONCESSIONS!!!

 

C is for Cookies.  We do a big cookie thing each year at Christmas..but we are going to do one over the summer, too, and hand them out to the neighbors as prizes!! 

 

D is for Dancing.  We are having a Just Dance for Wii party with some of their friends.  They LOVE that game!

 

 

And on and on...

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post #10 of 16
6/2/12 at 5:17pm

I like your ABC idea, Jenn!

 

We haven't made a list yet, but I will. The first two items are "move" and "go to Disneyland."  After that gets checked off, I'll make a list.

 

Some ideas for older kids:

 

  • learn a new hairstyle (youtube videos!)
  • try a new hobby
  • plan an activity for your whole family
  • learn how to cook something
  • beat a new video game
  • plant a garden
  • make a summer scrapbook
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