de Jong Dream House: 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.