Jadah shared her summer bucket list last week and it really inspired me. I have been “thinking about” a bucket list since I fell in love with The Happy Family Movement. ”Making” one has been a whole different story.

This week, I finally sat down with my family and brainstormed what we would love to do this summer. I wrote the ideas on giant popsicle sticks and threw them in a mason jar. It sits on our kitchen counter and is a constant reminder of the adventures awaiting us this summer.

Here are my summer bucket list ideas

1. Make paper mache hot air balloons
2. Stay in our pajamas all day
3. Look for alligators (at a state park)
4. Organize a softball game with friends
5. Launch a baking soda rocket
6. Play dress up with the kids (and go somewhere in the outfits)
7. Bake pretty cupcakes (mine are normally pretty ugly)
8. Have a lemonade stand and donate proceeds to a charity
9. Geocache bananza
10. Have a tie dye party
11. Make homemade ice cream and have a toppings party
12. Ride a rollercoaster
13. Go to a Tampa Bay Rays baseball game
14. Build an awesome sandcastle
15. Cook a hotdog with a magnifying glass
16. Slip n Slide
17. Camp in our living room (tent, sleeping bags and the works)
18. See a movie at a drive-in
19. Pick blackberries
20. Go bowling
21. Make a movie starring our family
22. Build a massive fort
23. Play in the rain
24. Go down a water slide
25. Decorate our street with sidewalk chalk

You can join The Happy Family Movement’s Summer Bucket List Challenge here.

Have any Summer Bucket List ideas? Share them below!