Summer break is the best time of year! Let’s plan your ideal summer with a bucket list of perfect opportunities for maximum summer fun. This list includes ideas you can do with friends and family or on your own!
You can make your own summer bucket list and use this one as a starting point, or print the list below and start checking things off!
What’s a Bucket List?
A bucket list is typically a list of goals or things a person wants to achieve in their lifetime, but we’re shortening the time period to make it just for the summer months! Often, bucket lists include lofty goals and major travel, but when you make a bucket list for a shorter period of time, you can include much smaller outings and simple (but fun!) ideas.
Fun Summer Bucket List Ideas
Here’s a list of fun ideas for a summer bucket list! They’re in random order, and you can use them to brainstorm your perfect summer fun list.
- Go to a water park
- Ride a Ferris wheel
- Attend an outdoor concert
- Go to a baseball game
- Visit a national park or state park
- Make homemade ice cream
- Play beach volleyball
- Make a summer playlist
- Have a picnic
- Watch fireworks
- Go for a bike ride
- Pick berries or peaches
- Visit a local museum
- Go camping
- Shop at your local farmers’ market
- Visit the local library
- Have a campfire
- Have a water balloon fight
- Shop at a yard sale or garage sale
- Make a time capsule
- Take a road trip
- Get a new summer outfit
- Make a root beer float
- Visit the zoo
- Go to a local or state fair
- Play minigolf
- Have an outdoor movie night
- Make homemade popsicles
- Plant some flowers
- Have a sleepover with friends
Bonus bucket list items
These options are a bit more involved and require some planning, but would be so fun to do!
- Take a hot air balloon ride
- Learn a new sport
- Volunteer at a local charity
- Take a dance class
- Go on a photo scavenger hunt
- Make a summer scrapbook
- Go horseback riding
- Donate school supplies
Your Summer Bucket List
Your summer fun list can include as many or as few items as you’d like – maybe you want to list your top ten priorities, or maybe you want it to have 30 things to really pack your summer full of exciting opportunities!
You can make a list on your phone or print something out like the bucket list below to hang on the wall. I love having a physical copy on the wall so I can see all the fun things I plan to do!
