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