Printable Summer Bucket List for Tweens & Teens (2024)

Summer bucket list - Over 100 ideas for tweens & teens, and adults too! Includes crafts, recipes, and lots of fun activities indoors and outdoors. Free printable.

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A few years ago, I published a one-page summer bucket list that continues to be extremely popular for families, but it occurred to me this year, as I was planning the summer out for my own two kids, that the bucket list may not fit my now 12-year-old as well as it once did.

I resolved to create a new, updated summer bucket list just for tweens and teens. I printed out my new Intentional Summer Planner and given the lists of activities to my big girl to peruse and revise. She crossed out the items she had already done this summer, and by the time she was finished, I expected to have an all new list to put together for you.

Except.

She was pretty excited about almost all the things on the list. Not every single one, of course, but enough of them that I reconsidered my idea of redoing the list for older kids. I think the old list is just fine even for these cool kids.

Not wanting to give these kids a babyish list, I went ahead and updated the graphics. But otherwise, the new list is exactly the same as the old list.

If you're looking for a way to get your kids to take charge of their own entertainment, click over to this post where I have created a unique, card-based list of 150 of the best screen-free activities for elementary kids up through teens.

So that's it. I created a new summer bucket list without the babyish stuff so that our tweens and teens would have a list of their own to get ideas for the summer from.

If you're looking for more ideas of fun things you can do with your teen, pop over to this post. You can find some parenting tips for building a strong bond with your teens in this post, and this one has some tips for helping your teens stay out of trouble.

Summer Bucket List for Tweens & Teens

1. Create your own summer bucket list
2. Excavate frozen fruit
3. Do some learning outside
4. Make suncatchers
5. Make sidewalk chalk paint
6. Explode sandwich bags
7. Catch fireflies
8. Make a balance beam
9. Go see fireworks
10. Throw whirlybirds off the deck
11. Make a leaf scrapbook
12. Go on a hike
13. Water blob
14. Play miniature golf
15. Make root beer floats or root beer float popsicles
16. Wash the car by hand
17. Participate in the library's summer reading program
18. Participate in the library's summer letterbox program
19. Outdoor scavenger hunt
20. Photo scavenger hunt
21. Make a map of the backyard
22. Have a carnival at home
23. Go for a boat ride
24. Go bowling
25. Pick raspberries and make raspberry pie
26. Pick blueberries and make blueberry cobbler
27. Pick strawberries and make Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream
28. Make homemade jam
29. Swim in the lake
30. Play bocce ball
32. See a drive-in movie
33. Make root beer ice cream
34. Paint the lawn with flour
35. Make flag t-shirts
36. Paint with ice cubes
37. Make banana splits
38. Go to a petting zoo
39. Make a nature collage
40. Tie-dye shirts
41. Water balloon catch
42. Visit the amusem*nt park
43. Visit a water park
44. Have a picnic
45. Make dirt pudding or dirt pudding popsicles
46. Grow a garden
47. Bake something with fresh cherries
48. Play in the creek
49. Go to a park
50. Build a campfire
51. Cook dinner over the campfire (don't forget dessert!)
52. Make s'mores or s'mores bars
53. Go to a baseball game
54. Make fireworks art
55. Make patriotic fruit kabobs
56. Make astronaut pudding
57. Float in a pool
58. Make a butterfly craft
59. Make homemade popsicles
60. Make a Father's Day gift
61. Go out for ice cream
62. Go for a bike ride
63. Make a jellyfish suncatcher
64. Make a mini ocean aquarium
65. Make beachy pudding cups
66. Make under the sea graham cracker snacks
67. Play with water beads
68. Have a water gun battle
69. Visit a splash pad
70. Finger paint - it's not just for little kids!
71. Feed the ducks
72. Go fishing
73. Have Christmas in July, complete with Christmas cookies and Christmas music and a special meal - and maybe even a couple of gifts!
74. Marshmallow shooters
75. Nerf gun battle
76. Go stargazing
77. Watch the sunrise
78. Watch the sunset
79. Build a sandcastle
80. Make a homemade pizza
81. Grill a pizza
82. Go to a free concert
83. Go on a road trip
84. Listen to an audiobook
85. Float down a river in an inner tube
86. Ride a ferris wheel
87. Have a water balloon fight
88. Start a lemonade stand
89. Play in the sprinkler
90. Play in a public fountain (only with permission)
91. Fly a kite
92. Blow bubbles
93. Hunt for cloud animals
94. Fly paper airplanes
95. Play in the mud
96. Go to a museum
97. Go to a yard sale
98. Play frisbee
99. Play hide and seek outside
100. Visit the library
101. Take photos of flowers
102. Slip n slide
103. Workshops at Lowes & Home Depot
104. Visit a pet store
105. Jump rope
106. Play hopscotch
107. Visit a fair or carnival
108. Build an obstacle course
109. Create a music video
110. Start a YouTube channel
111. Play with shaving cream
112. Make a fairy garden
113. Take a nap in a hammock(this is the one we have and LOVE - plenty big enough for 3 teens at one time)
114. Eat dinner al fresco (you would know that means outside if you read Fancy Nancy)
115. Paint your faces
116. Try a new food
117. Start a rock collection
118. Do a random act of kindness
119. Visit a farmer's market
120. Visit a flea market
121. Make no bake cookies
122. Make frozen yogurt
123. Visit the zoo
124. See a waterfall
125. Rent a paddleboat
126. Have walking tacos
127. Learn something new
128. HAVE FUN!

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