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Summer Fun Ideas

Below are some links for ideas and events to keep you busy and happy during the summer months. We hope that they are useful if for nothing else than as a springboard to come up with your own ideas. We obviously can't list all events throughout the state but we hope to give enough examples so that you will be able to contact those your own community to find out what is available in your area.

101 Things to do in the Summer

Summer Reading Programs

Ways to Retain Knowledge

Community Summer Events

101 Things to Do in the Summer

  1. Make a scrapbook of everything you do this summer
  2. Have a picnic
  3. Write a letter to your best friend
  4. Visit another country
  5. Go to a ballgame
  6. Get a job (parent's permission)
  7. Become a photographer
  8. Make dinner for your family
  9. Compare the book to the movie made from thr book
  10. Write a poem
  11. Learn about fireworks
  12. Bake some cookies
  13. Take a boat ride
  14. Sketch a picture of your house from the outside
  15. Go to camp
  16. Visit a farm
  17. Take a walk and record the sounds
  18. Make your own soccer camp
  19. Keep a journal of what you do during the summer
  20. Cut up an old greeting card picture and make a puzzle
  21. Start a band
  22. Make a new kind of sandwich
  23. Blow up balloons, put notes inside and hand them out to friends
  24. Go backpacking
  25. Go outside and find 10 different kinds of flowers
  26. Create a web site
  27. Go camping
  28. Invent a new dance
  29. Help an elderly person with house or yard work
  30. Visit the zoo
  31. Learn a foreign language
  32. Make an obstacle course in your back yard
  33. Make a treasure hunt
  34. Read a story to someone
  35. Have a winter theme party
  36. Recycle bottles and donate the money to a local charity
  37. Clean up a nature trail
  38. Build a tree house
  39. Create a new world
  40. Set up a lemonade stand
  41. Learn or teach a new sport with someone
  42. Attend a concert
  43. Have a family game night
  44. Make a movie
  45. Make a collage from magazine words and pictures
  46. Create a terrarium
  47. Go canoeing
  48. Discover a new favorite author or book series
  49. Go to a museum
  50. Make a fire plan 
  51. Make up bubble solution and have a contest
  52. Find a pen-pal (parent's permission)
  53. Plant something
  54. Visit a tourist spot near your home
  55. Host a yard sale
  56. Build a sandcastle
  57. Donate some of the toys and clothes you no longer use
  58. Research your family tree
  59. Fly a kite
  60. Invent your own board game
  61. Use a compass or GPS to map your neighborhood
  62. Build a time capsule
  63. Act in a play
  64. Throw a cultural heritage block party
  65. Make a bird feeder
  66. Organize a bike safety clinic
  67. Spend time with your grandparents
  68. Attend a first aid class
  69. Dig for fossils
  70. Write a song
  71. Tie-dye some t-shirts
  72. Take a dog for a walk
  73. Have a paper airplane contest
  74. Go without TV for a day
  75. Sign up at your local library for their summer reading program
  76. Learn some new outdoor games
  77. Make something from recyclables
  78. Share your favorite movie with a friend
  79. Make home made ice cream
  80. Jump on a trampoline
  81. Get a magazine subscription (parent's permission)
  82. Organize a scavenger hunt
  83. Go swimming
  84. Paint a portrait of your best friend
  85. Start a collection
  86. Write a fairy tale
  87. Travel in time
  88. Stargaze and track the moon phases
  89. Learn how to sew
  90. Visit a National Park
  91. Rent a video of a ballet
  92. Roast marshmallows
  93. Watch the birds
  94. Arrange a bouquet of flowers
  95. Learn to blog (parent's permission)
  96. Re-decorate your room
  97. Learn to play chess
  98. Adopt a pet (parent's permission)
  99. Keep your brain going
  100. Teach someone to use email
  101. Create your own holiday

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