Summer Bucket List

It's the last week of school, which means I have only a few short days before our five-year-old is home with me all day. D loves school and has been a little sad about leaving his teacher and friends, so we've been working on a summer bucket list to help him think of all the fun things we can do.

I love this printable from Leanne at Organize & Decorage Everything.It's printed out and ready for summer boredom complaints!

Our son is rising kindergartner, so our list is based on his interests (all things science and space) and feedback from his teacher (he excels academically, but is still developing his social and gross motor skills), our budget, and our location. Here's our list.

Indoor Fun

• Sports Camp
• Pool time at at our fitness center
• Make a balloon rocket
• Make a sandpaper shirt
• Join the summer movie club (Tuesdays at 10)
• go bowling
• Visit the Cleveland Aquarium
• Made homemade popsicles

Outdoor fun:

• Wet sponge bullseye
• Learn to ride bike without training wheels
• Walk in woods
• Start the day with a walk
• Go geocaching
• Go letter boxing
• Go blueberry picking
• Visit the farmer's market
• Play mini-golf
• Shoot rockets
• Fly a kite
• Make a frozen toy block
• Spend a day at Tuscora Park
• Visit a nature preserve
• Attend a First Friday event
• Attend the Hall of Fame parade
• Attend the Italian-American festival
• Go to a water park
• Go on a nature scavenger hunt or treasure hunt
• Stargaze
• Play with the sand and water tables (post to come!)
• Make a chalk masterpiece on the driveway
• Blow bubbles with  homemade bubble mix

Spiritual

• VBS
• Dinner devotional
• Work on memory verses
• Learn the 10 commandments
• Write our Compassion kids

Always learning

• Continue weekly spelling lists started by his teacher
• Practice tying his shoes
• Practice writing lower case letters
• Daily quiet time as he transitions to no naps :-(
• Summer reading program from Scholastic
• Many trips to the library
• Book reports
• Workbooks pages to earn tech time
• Space Camp!
• Work on typing/keyboarding skills
• Learn to play chess

Places to Go, Things to See

• Visit the Neil Armstrong museum
• Go to a drive-in movie
• Meet the chickens that provide our eggs.
• Visit the McKinley Museum
• Visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame
• Visit Great Lakes Science Center
• Discover a new museum
• Hit garage sales. I give him $1 per week to spend. If he spends it all, he has to be patient while I finish shopping. If he doesn't spend it all, he can keep it for next week, or add it to his save jar.

Social

• Family game nights. We've been playing a lot of Settlers of Catan.
• Play with neighborhood friend
• Playdates with school friends
• Host friends from Canada

I made a printable of our summer bucket list. 

What's on your summer bucket list?

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