Summer 2011: Bucket List

  Wow! What a fun idea. Creating a summer bucket list. Now, I really can't wait for summer to start.   Here's mine...    

Everyday

Garden

Read: Ambleside free reading lists and independent lists

Math story problems

Handicrafts

Take time to smell flowers

Stop to watch every sunset

Read outside

Giggle

Work on a volunteering Project

Learn the hymn “You are Everything”

Spend evenings on the deck

Scheduled Events

VBS

Church camp

Scavenger hunt

Camp out in play house

Day Trip or Out and About Stops

Hike

Children’s garden

Zoo

Go to science center

Summer concert

Park: Explore a creek or stream and climb…rocks, trees, hills

Lake Park and feed the ducks

Go Spelunking

Play putt-putt

Go out for ice cream cones

Visit the observatory

Pick blueberries, strawberries, and apples

Go to an outdoor concert

Go to Arboretum

Go to the walking/biking trail

Rainy Day

Play in the rain

Make Moon Sand

Make a volcano

Play a board game

Make snow cones

Make mud pies

Make Popsicles

Craft day

Learn new jokes

Paint Bumble Bee & Ladybug Rocks

Make homemade play dough

Make funnel cakes

Root beer floats

Make fizzing sidewalk paint

Make ice cream sundaes

Paint or tie dye t-shirts

Make sidewalk paint or this one

Make ice cream in a bag 

Make a bird house

Decorate the walking sticks that are in the corner of the garage

Make a whirligig

Make fruit Popsicles

Work on a big puzzle

Make a beach garden with sand, sea shells, and sea glass in a small terra cotta dish

Make rock candy

Make walnut boats or bark boats to sail in water table or puddles

Have a WII fit fun night

Make donuts

Make silly putty

  

Night Time Fun

Catch fireflies

Star gaze

Make an entire meal on the grill

AND make an entire meal over the fire

Spend some time sitting around a camp fire

What-to-do Jar

Gather wildflowers and leaves

Find a new tree to study

Fly a kite

Paint with water

Watch the clouds

Ride bikes

Roll down a hill

Blow dandelions

Picnic

Play ball

Play Frisbee

Jump rope

Hula hoop

Horseshoes

Play hillbilly golf

Play corn hole

Swing

Do a nature journal page

Wash the car together

Have a silly dance contest

Blow bubbles

Wear a bathing suit all day

Play in sprinkler

Play with sidewalk chalk

Use our sidewalk paint to paint with our feet

Play with sparklers and pops (not only on the fourth)

Make Fresh Flower Halos 

Play in the sunflower/morning glory house

Make a cloth tent on the deck hang with clothes pins and line

Work on a stick tepee

Play in sunflower and morning glory house

Collect rocks

Decorate the play house with shells, wildflowers, rocks

Shadow Watching

Are there enough days in the summer for all of this? I'm not sure, but a few may need to go on my 2012 list.

What would be on your list? Join the fun! 

Wishing you homeschool blessings,

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