22 Summer Activities For The Family + Win a Shaun The Sheep Prize Pack
I’ve been trying to come up with summer activities and goals for my family and I for a few months. After a not-so-exciting summer last year, I knew I wanted to create a family summer bucket list. We wasted a lot of the summer last year with doing nothing (well, not nothing, Netflix is a thing isn’t it?). When we had a record snow fall this summer, I said to my husband that this year we were going to take full advantage of the summer and create some memories as a family. My son is three now, and he’s at the age where we can do a lot of fun things together.
Summer Activities Bucket List:
Here are my personal summer activities bucket list, be sure to share your own in the comments!
- Play more tennis, and learn the rules of the game (right now it’s a win if we can get a streak going).
- Go fishing and teach the little guy how to cast.
- Have my son catch his first fish.
- Teach my son T-Ball and register him for a team
- On August 5th, cool off in the theater and watch the new movie, Shaun the Sheep: The Movie. It will be our first theater experience as a family.
- Try S.U.P (stand up paddle-boarding).
- 3 words: Backyard camp out.
- Hike the local mountain trails.
- Teach my son how golf.
- Golf at least twice a month, bonus points if I can par a few holes.
- Finally run that 5k, with my son biking beside me.
- Visit the local hobby farm and introduce my toddler to the baby animals.
- Create the perfect BBQ sauce.
- Vis it and support the local Farmer’s Market on Saturday’s
- Spend as much time at the lake as possible.
- Put our new fire pit to good use, and roast as many marshmallows as our stomachs will allow.
- Go on our first real family vacation to Kelowna.
- Remember to be a tourist, and stop at attractions we believe Carter would like to see. It’s important to me that we’re not in a massive rush to get there.
- Visit the Kettle Valley Train in Summerland.
- Visit and participate in the activities at Myra Canyon
- Water fights!
- Take tons of photos and make many memories
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WHAT SUMMER ACTIVITIES ARE AT THE TOP OF YOUR BUCKET LIST THIS YEAR?
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I really want to take my son to Canada’s wonderland! Its #1 of our bucket list!
I love your list! I think fishing with your kid sounds fun. I love taking tons of photos, too.
We went to a movie the other day & there were a ton of Shaun the Sheep previews! haha 🙂 Now my kids & I are real curious about it!
This is a great list!! I love having water fights with my kids. Our favorite summer activity is camping (which is when a lot of the water fights go on! LOL)
I love that you and your son have a bucket list. That’s so smart. The summer goes by too quickly. I’m sure your bucket list will be something that he thinks back on fondly when he’s grown up!
I hope so Crystal! I’m really looking forward to our vacation next week 😀
My daughter is always talking about this movie! Can’t wait to watch it in theatres!
Please tell me you didn’t really have a record snowfall in the summer! 😉 The Shaun The Sheep movie looks so cute! Our goal this summer is to get my son caught up on swimming lessons so he can join other kids his age this fall. I can’t believe it’s August already – I better get started!!
It was! I had never seen so much snow 🙁 We even had a backhoe removing snow in our driveway and we couldn’t keep up.
I thought you for sure meant to type “in the winter” or even the spring!! We’ve never had snow here in the summer. If we did, I think I’d have to move! Ha!
Oh shoot! Yes! That is what I meant. No snow in the summer (how awful would that be?).
My summer bucket list includes trying 3 new foods, going on a roller coaster with a loop and to try water skiing
Beach day is on the top of mine!
Go to the pool and the movies.
We love our weekly family trips to the local farmer’s market during the summer.
On our bucket list this summer is to visit the Britannia Mine Museum in BC with the kids
I have been wanting to go for a year! Let me know how it is!
The things at the top of our summer bucket list are hiking as many local trails as possible, swimming under a waterfall and lots of swimming!
I love the idea of a bucket list for the summer. I have a friend who does this and captures each in a picture for a scrapbook = super idea so must do!! 🙂
OH! I love that idea!
My summer bucket list includes paddleboarding in the lake and ziplining through the woods
Spends lots of time playing at the beach and go for lots of bike rides
On our family summer bucket list: go to the beach often; go up to the lake for day trips, go for bike rides; and now.. See this cute movie!
This summer holding a family garage sale and helping my daughter test out her first real rod & reel are tops on our bucket list!
Thanks for the giveaway, my kids are both big Sean the Sheep fans!
I wanna do a hot air ballon ride this summer!!
The number one thing on our bucket list this summer is to get the family together and go fly our kites on our favorite hill in Jasper, AB. Just waiting for a windy day!
tennis is on my list this summer, great tips thanks
On our bucket list this summer is just to explore some of the things Calgary has to offer. We’ve already gone to the zoo, several parks, Calaway Park etc. More to do still!
This summer when I’m not working, I will be keeping my family company at home, since my husband has some medical issues. You can have fun at homme, too, movies are one of our fave pastimes !
water play in the pool, at the beach, and in the sprinkler
to see the Canadian Air Show!
Oh that sounds like a lot of fun!
I really love backyard camping .We have a pool and a fire pit back there so we set up the pop up trailer and sleep out there on hot nights.It’s so awesome!We love the cool summer breezes and the sounds of nature as we fall asleep.
We plan to go to a few concerts, the beach and the movies!
Go carts would be a lot of fun!
Love the list!
We plan to do more outdoor activities….camping is on our summer bucket list.
I’d love to try these under my skirts.
My summer bucket list includes a lot of things to do with my grandchildren. I want to go visit my 2 month old grandson since I have not seen him since he was born, spend some time with some of my grandchildren in August when they come and visit from Boston, and go visit my grandchildren that live in the same city and do crafts with them. I taught the oldest 2 to sew so we will continue with that also. August will be a fun and busy month.
Swimming in the lake!
On our bucket list is the local museums, visit some new parks and splashpads and maybe road trip to Montreal!
My summer bucket list is to have a lot of fun at the lake and farm with my grandchildren and husband!
At the top of our Summer Bucket List are trips to the beach and a visit to the Waterpark!
we play yard games like croquet.
some geo caching and camping
I want to visit as many of the beaches in area as I can.
I really want to take my son to the beach so he can try playing in the sand!
I can’t wait to spend a weekend with my best friend who I only get to see once or twice a year!
I love spending time at the pool.
I look forward to going camping!
The top of our list in exploring all the new beaches around our new home!
Thank you ,
On our bucket list is catching a fish with a net while at Pinehurst .
Potty Training ( hopefully the trees outside will help 🙂 )
Take my toddler across the border for the first time.
Go to the CNE
Go to Medieval Times
We want to take the kids fishing. It is just one of the things on our bucketlist
Camping
We’re looking forward to going to Medieval Times and to the Ontario Science Centre.
Water fights, zip lining, going to the beach and of course going to museums (ROM, Ontario Science Centre)
We’ve been camping a lot, but we haven’t had nearly as many campfires yet as I would like. It’s been really dry here, Halifax has been getting all of our rain… which is fine, but we have a well. It would be nice to get 2 solid days of heavy, non-stop rain and then it can continue being dry. This movie looks so cute! I would love to watch it with all my young nieces and nephews (and my boys as well)
My daughter has already taken the grandkids to see the movie. They loved it. Our family has always done a lot of camping and fishing during the summer. We always look for camping areas that allow swimming so we can keep cool.
SUMMER ACTIVITIES ON MY BUCKET LIST? GOING TO CEDAR POINT AND FINISHNG PAINTING THE HOUSE
i want to go boating
Go to Toronto’s Air Show.