Our Summer Bucket List 2016
It is that time of year again!
Summer is here and adventure is everywhere, if you want it to be! We do and in our family, to help keep us on track, we make a summer bucket list of everything we want to do during the summer. Our summer bucket list keeps us motivated and conscious of everything we want to do, plus really helps guide me as I plan out our summer week’s activities.
The kids and I have been working on this list all week. We realized that there were a few things that we did not get to last summer (see that Summer Bucket List here) so we added them on to this year’s list along with all of the new things we hope to try.
Our Summer Bucket List
- Swim in the pool everyday
- Check out the big LA farmer’s market
- Have a summer solstice party
- See The BFG movie in the theaters
- Introduce ourselves to one new farmer at our Farmer’s Market in Malibu
- Our version of Junior Chef home competition – kids have to create their own recipe, gather the ingredients and make it within a certain amount of time. Presentation counts also!
- Bakery Tour – we came up with a list of 8 local bakeries, one to visit each week of the summer!
- Kayak trip to Channel Islands
- Become a Junior Ranger at the Channel Islands National Park
- Volunteer 2x at the Senior Center this summer
- Beach 4x a week
- See Through The Looking Glass in theaters
- Read The BFG out loud by the fire together as a family
- Build a paper machete volcano (I have wanted to do this for 2 summers now… I am going to make sure it happens this summer!!)
- Visit our family and friends back East
- Board the MayFlower and visit Plymouth Plantations in Massachusetts
- Make a family video on what the journey across the ocean and creating the first settlement was like
- River Kayak Trip in New Hampshire
- See as many firework displays as we can
- See the dancing bears at Clarks Trading Post
- Visit Whales Tales Water Park
- Visit the Ventura Water Park
- See an Orchestra Concert in the Park
- Make summer travel journals
- Visit The Joshua Tree National Park
- Become Junior Rangers at The Joshua National Park
- Check out The Discovery Cube of LA – an interactive children’s science museum
- Do the Pirate’s Adventure Dinner Theater
- Bake cookies for our neighbors
- Do one random act of kindness each day
- Surf camp
- Tennis camp
- Swim camp
- Nature camp
- Fishing on a lake
- Tubing on a lake
- Find one new to us fruit or vegetable each week
- Take a bike hike day trip in Ojai
- Exchange handwritten letters with pen pals
- Invite friends to the beach for an epic sand castle competition
- Plant a garden
- Grow tomatoes
- Have ice cream at Ventura Harbour
- Pick and press some flowers
- Attend an outdoor movie in a park event
- Have a weekly family counsel fire
- Have an end of summer pool party
- Back-to-School shopping spree
- Go to an air show
- Have an awesome summer!
Here’s to hoping that this is the summer we get to everything on our summer bucket list!!
What is on your summer bucket list?
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