Bucket List for kids

I watch my kids run around in the rain outside and I gets me thinking.

I think about all the things that I loved to do as a kid and the things that I want to share with my kids.

I think about how fast they are growing up and how it seems to just be passing away so quickly.

There are so many things that I want to share with my kids and so many adventures that I want to go on with them. It is important that we cherish them and our time with them and instill in them great memories as well. We, as parents, are the number one source of memory making for our kids. 

I want to give them great memories that last a life time. I want them to smell certain thing, or see certain things when they are older and have memories come rushing back to them and hopefully put a smile on their face.

I decided that I would make a list of all the things that every kid should have on their bucket list and share it with ya'll in no particular order.

A Bucket list of Fun for kids

• Play in the rain.
• Go on a long bike ride
• Have a dance party
• Catch lightening bugs (this may require a trip to a place where they actually have lightening bugs.)
• Build Christmas houses
• Build Halloween houses
• Go camping
• Go to Disneyland (world) at least once
• Go on a cross country road trip
• Go to summer Camps
• Make their own music video
• Tell ghost stories over a camp fire
• Visit a foreign country
• Have trick competitions on a trampoline
• Feed the ducks
• Stomp in mud puddles
• Play hide and go seek (in the house, in the woods, at a park, and in the dark)
• Have a puppet show
• Be in a play (at home or a theater)
• Go to a play
• Fly a kite
• Built a snow man
• Have a snow ball fight
• Drink hot cocoa under a blanket on the porch while watching the snow fall
• Plant a flower or a tree and watch it grow
• Go to the beach
• Play in the sand and build a giant sand castle
• Look for crabs and sea shells on the beach
• Build a tree house
• Play pick up kickball and baseball games
• Play tag at the park after its super dark
• Skip rocks
• Go fishing
• Go water skiing
• Go Snow Machining 
• Lay on the grass and look at shapes in the clouds
• Make a big pallet on the floor and have big family slumber parties
• Make and decorate sugar cookies for every holiday
• Visit the Elderly Homes and bring them some cheer
• Help make and take food to the sick
• Attend a General Conference at the Conference center
• Go on a church History Trek
• Go on a Pioneer Trek
• Go on a tour of all the Early America sights
• Go on an American History road trip
• Go to a water park
• Go to an Amusement Park
• Go on Hikes
• Explore the woods and find all things nature related
• Play in a giant foam pit
• Learn a dance routine
• Go to football games
• Do a reading contest at the Local Library
• Go hang out an read books at the Library
• Have a lemonade stand
• Have a pool party
• Go to all the Children's Museums you can
• Do arts and craft projects as often as I can
• Learn silly songs
• Built forts out of pillows and blankets and have a party in there
• Make homemade pizza and have a party on the floor in front of the TV with a really good movie
• Play ultimate Frisbee
• Learn silly songs
• Learn how to build things out of wood
• Learn electrical and plumbing tips
• Build a volcano
• Go on a sight seeing cruise
• Pick wild berries
• Swim in a lake
• Go paddle boating and canoeing 
• Go on a haunted house tour in the south
• Write a "book"
• Visit New York and tell them about 9/11
• Cook meals together
• Play games with side walk chalk (four square, hopscotch, shuffle board, etc.)
• Have a picnic in the park
• Watch a sun rise and a sun set
• Have a pillow fight
• Jump on a hotel bed
• Have a scavenger hunt (I seriously LOVE these)
• Have a door decorating contest for the holidays where they each get to decorate their bedroom door.
• Play card games late into the night
• Have a marshmallow eating contest
• Build a big giant puzzle together
• Visit family and have big family slumber parties
• Visit as many zoos as we can
• Make homemade popcorn in every flavor we want
• Tell stories together
• Read books as a family
• Go to an Antique store and show them all the things that I love, and the things from my childhood
• Make eatable Play Dough from scratch
• Make snowcream
• Make homemade popsicles 
• Tie dye shirts
• Make a blanket together
• Write letters to each other
• Play freeze tag
• Go on a treasure hunt
• Learn magic tricks
• Do science experiments 
• Learn to play checkers and cheese
• Fly kites
• Barbecue whenever possible
• Go snorkeling 
• Volunteer at the food bank on Thanksgiving
• Volunteer anywhere
• Create an obstacle course
• Have a slip and slide contest
• Learn cool dives at the pool
• Have a back yard camp out
• Roast marshmallows
• Compete in a three legged or sack race
• Have a water gun and water balloon fight
• Prank call family members
• Play trivia games
• Build paper airplanes and have a flying contest
• Teach and tell jokes
• Learn to juggle
• Go to a musical
• Thumb wrestle
• Bake and decorate a cake
• Play dress up and pretend to be different people all day
• Go to the Circus
• Climb trees
• Go roller skating
• Make silhouettes using a slide projector or a flash light on the wall
• Make and do crossword puzzles
• Play the A-Z car game
• Play bingo as a family at a local community center
• Make collages about ourselves using pictures from magazines and newspapers
• Go to garage sales and see who can find the best bargains
• Go to a Saturday market or Farmers market 
• Make plaster of Paris or wax hands
• Make a homemade pinata
• Go bowling
• Play charades or "Guesstures"
• Write a song together
• Press wild flowers that you pick together
• Make a mobile of special treasure that we find on a walk or at a flea market
• Build villages using Lego's, blocks or Lincoln logs
• Visit a farm
• Play 20 questions
• Go on family walks
• Trace your body and color it to look like you
• Learn jump rope games
• Make caramel apples
• Go to a Fair and ride fair rides and eat fair food
• Make paper strings for each holiday (hearts, people, pumpkins, gingerbread men, trees, ghosts etc.)
• Go sledding
• Design your own shirts
• Go horseback riding
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