Summer holidays have officially begun and with the weather being so beautiful there is no better place to be than outside! Scavenger hunts are a great way to keep children entertained and to help them discover more about their environment.
My Free nature scavenger hunt printable is great for at home in the garden and for days out. There are two versions that you can download. One with the labels written for you and one with blank spaces so that children can practise writing the words on their own. Hit the appropriate download button to claim yours now!
80 ideas for things to do this summer: Our summer bucket list
School holidays are almost upon us and this year we decided to create a bucket list to encourage us to do more together this summer. We’ve included small activities as well as big ones so we can squeeze most of our activities into evenings and weekends when Dad is home from work. Our bucket list has been created with a budget in mind, the great thing is that aside from a few big days out many of these activities are free or cheap, this means we can have loads of fun as a family without blowing the bank, which is so easily done during summer!
Here’s the full list
Build a blanket fort
Have a water fight
Bake a Cake
Have a BBQ
Plant some flowers
Nature painting
Make fresh fruit skewers
Visit family
Build a garden den
Make a bird feeder
Go on a trip to the zoo
Make a bug house
Go Strawberry picking
Try Geocaching
Camp in the Garden
Draw a storyboard
Go fishing
Visit a farm
Draw on the patio with chalks
Play hopscotch
Ride on a train
Make puppets and a puppet theatre
Go on a scavenger hunt
Make Clay Fossils
Go to the Museum
Have a movie night
Make sensory bottles for baby
Go to the Aquarium
Make Leaf rubbings
Donate old toys
Make a fairground inspired coconut shy
Make ice lollies
Go to a Car boot sale
Make a summer Scrapbook
Go on a Picnic
Go swimming
Go on play dates with Preschool friends
play with a water sprinkler
Fly a kite
Make a slip n slide
Splash in the paddling pool
Go to the arcades and play on the penny machines
Put on a puppet show
Play Frisbee
Join a Club (sport, swimming, music etc)
Ride a bike or scooter on a family walk
Make fruit smoothies
Go on a make believe Safari
Make a play Restaurant
Go to the Library
Hunt for insects
Tidy/rearrange and style the kids bedrooms
Paint rocks (many towns have rock painting Facebook pages, the basic idea is to find hidden rocks, post them on the page then either keep them or re-hide them and paint more to hide, we’ve stumbled across a few lovely rocks whilst out and about)
Read a new book
Make our own Pizza
Start a science project, probably an exploding paper Mache volcano!
Do some handprint art to hand and give to Family
Go stargazing
Go to the Beach
Have a family board game night
Was the car
Do some junk modelling
Play rounders
Spend time with Cousins
Use our membership and visit a national trust site
Feed the ducks at the nearby lake
Visit all the local parks
Blow bubbles – finally use all the bubble mixture we’ve collected!
Play tag in the garden
Play Cricket with the whole family
Build a sandcastle
Play hide and seek
Make somebody a gift
Make paper Airplanes
Do 5 jigsaw puzzles
Learn to skip rocks on the lake
Make homemade lemonade
Make Biscuits
Build a giant Lego castle
Play snap
We don’t expect to achieve every single item on the list but we will keep you updated on our progress by highlighting in red which ones we manage to do!
What have you got on your family bucket list? are you ready for the summer holidays? I know we aren’t!
