Our Summer Bucket List

This summer I have a few goals. The utmost is to have FUN! Another goal I have is have for the summer is to seriously tone down the amount of television my children watch. They probably don't watch television as much as the average child but still, I would like the three or fours days a  week they watch a movie or television to be more like one or two days a week. Since they ask every single day to watch the television or to play on the Wii I thought I better come up with some ideas of fun (mostly non-electronic and CHEAP) things to occupy our time this summer.


Also, since I am resolving to actually complete some of those cute little pins from Pinterest I made a cute container to house all of our lovely summer plans, goals, and ideas. 


It actually was easier than I thought and I thought I would share it with you.

The first step was probably the most difficult of the process. Since I am not uber computer savvy it was more difficult than you might think to trace a tongue depressor and then insert into Word and be able to type in. But somehow, after what seemed like a lifetime of messing with it, I managed to type each thing from our summer bucket list into each little shape. Then, before I printed them I color coded them. 




- Every project or activity that I had all the necessary supplies for on hand, and could be done quickly without prep work went on the cute orange polka dotted cardstock.


- The yellows sticks are projects that require either some prep work on my part or a few supplies from the store.


- The red polka dotted cardstock was used for projects to be completed in the kitchen, (like cooking projects and homemade playdoh). 


- Blue ended up being things we wanted to do that were out of the house. This out and about category is most full of free things we want to do this summer but has a few things that will cost some money.


- The last category, printed on the lovely color green, is family fun. I set aside all the activities that I know Brandon wants to do with us. Since his time away from work, school, and his internship this summer will be small I thought we would make the most of our time with fun family activities. 

Next thing I did was glue them to the tongue depressors. I just used a paint brush and a half glue half water mixture. One swipe of the tongue depressor and one swipe on top of the paper. It worked beautifully and was messy enough that the boys loved it. 


I then let them dry over night and then put them in the cute bucket I made.

                                               

Here is our finished product:

And here is what went in it:

Alphabet Scavenger Hunt

Apple Butter

Backyard Campout

Bake Apple Pie Cups

Balloon Ping Pong

Bean Bag Balls

Bird Feeders

Blanket Fort

Bleach T-Shirts

Book Holder for the Car

Build a Cardboard Fort

Calm Down Jar

Car Wash

Continents Mobile

Craft Store Dollar Bin

Custom Stickers

Design Your Own Flags

Discovery Bottles

DIY Bathroom Rug

Draw a Self Portrait

Elmer’s Glue Art

Feeding the Ducks

Find a Pen-pal

Flashlight Tag

Gardening

Geocaching

Giant Ice Cube Excavation

Glow in the Dark Bubbles

Goodwill Junk Art

Handprint Collages

Handprint Monsters

Have a Pajama and Pancake Party

Hiking

Homemade Instruments

Homemade Lemonade

Homemade Pizza

Homemade Playdoh

Homemade Popsicles

Homemade Smoothies

House of Cards

Indoor Hopscotch

Indoor Obstacle Course

Indoor Slip and Slide

Ivory Soap Science Experiment

Just Because Cards

Leaf Scrapbook

Cake Pops

Care Packages

Chocolate Pretzels

Homemade Muffins

Pinwheels

Tie Dye Shirts

Own Rock Candy

Strawberry Jam

Melted Crayon Art

Messy Twister

Mini Golf

Mod Podge Photo Collage

Monopoly Marathon

Mud Pies

Museums

Nail and Yarn Art

Nature Rubbings

Origami

Outdoor Slip and Slide

Paint Chip Mosaic Coffee Table

Paint with Pudding

Paper Airplane Contest

Paper Airplane Contest

Paper Bag Puppets

Paper Dolls

Pet Rocks

Photo Scavenger Hunt

Picnic

Picture Frame Doorway

Pop the Balloon

Popcorn Party and Movie Night

Pressed or Hammered Flower Prints

Purple Day

Rain Painting

Research an Animal

Robots

Root Beer Floats

Salt Clay Sculptures

Seatbelt Pillows

Shaving Cream Paint

Sidewalk Paint

Silly Picture Fashion Show

Snack Necklaces

Sour Patch Grapes

Sponge Balls

Stained Glass Windows

Straw Sculptures

Summer Memory Box

Sun Prints

Taped Finger-paint Art

Thrift Store

Toothpick and Marshmallow Sculpture

Vegetable Stamps

Visit a Pet Store

Visit a You-Pick-It Farm

Wash the Car

Wash the Dog

Watch Fireworks

Water War

Watermelon Eating Contest

Welcome Troops at the Airport

Worm Hunt

Write a Letter to a Loved One

Yo-Yo on a Stick

Ziploc Bag Ice Cream

Please, by all means, use my list, and have a great summer!