Summer Bucket List — Keeping Kids From Being Bored

Summer may be a time to relax, but tell that to kids who are bouncing off the walls or saying “I’m bored.”  We want to make summer fun and memorable, but may be looking for some new ideas.  

Here are a few ideas to get you started this summer with some kid-friendly activities.

• Bake cookies for ice cream sandwiches
• Visit a farmer’s market
• Have a picnic at a park or in your own backyard
• Write and illustrate your own book and have it published into an actual hardcover book using IlluStory
• Make homemade pizza
• Have a water balloon fight
• Go biking on a trail
• Plant a garden
• Have an outdoor painting party using huge canvases or cardboard
• Make a giant hopscotch or Twister game on the lawn (with mist paint) or driveway (with chalk)
• Learn about stargazing and identify as many constellations as possible. Retzner Nature Center is located in Waukesha has an amazing planetarium
• Create leis with fresh flowers using this tutorial from Diana Rambles and have a luau in the backyard
• Visit a fire station
• Visit the zoo
• Decorate bikes and have a parade
• Attend an outdoor show-  Summer Stage in Delafield offers some fun shows to attend
• Make bird feeders by covering pine cones with peanut butter and rolling in birdseed
• Feed ducks at park
• Go for a walk and then make a collage from nature objects you find along the way
• Decorate your walkways with chalk
• Plant a butterfly garden
• Bubbles are always fun.  Make a human size bubble enclosure Lindsay & Drew style
• Go to a matinee.  Visit Marcus Theater...they have many summer specials
• Go to an outdoor movie. Lake Country family fun offers outdoor movie night at Cutler Park in Waukesha
• Press summer flowers
• Build a fort- inside if its raining with sheets and chairs, or outside using boxes(can decorate)
• Fly a kite
• Play a fun game of Drip Drip Splash (Think Duck Duck Goose with water)
• Make and play outdoor sponge bullseye
• Make pool noodle swords- The Joys of Boys shares a quick and easy way to create
• Make your own playdoh with using this recipe from living well mom
• Set up an outdoor canvas and water pistol paint with messy little monster DIY
• Make your own splash pad in the backyard. Jill Levenhagen allows her son Nathan to demonstrate a how to video on youtube

While outdoors this season, protect your loved ones from mosquitoes and ticks.  Mosquito Squad is the most trusted professional eliminating both mosquitoes and ticks so you can enjoy outdoor living and activities.