Every summer my friends and I always talk about making a summer bucket list but never manage to actually write it all down and complete it. So here is my list of ideas of things to do with your summer. Some are easier and cheaper than others:

1. Go canoeing/kayaking

2. Go to a drive in movie

3. Have a cook out with your friends

4. Stargaze

5. Go for a hike

6. Find a festival (for example I went to a Strawberry Festival in Troy, Ohio) and go to it

7. Go to a concert (preferably outdoors)

8. Spend a rainy day watching a movie series (ex: Star Wars, Harry Potter)

9. Go to a baseball game

10. Go to the aquarium

11. Go to the zoo

12. Go mini golfing

13. Make your own or buy a slip-n-slide

14. Go on a road trip with a friend or friends

15. Camp

16. Spend a day at the lake

17. Go to a museum

18. Go for a night swim

19. Go fishing

20. Eat lunch at a food truck

21. Do yoga in a park (some parks offer free yoga or you could do it yourself)

22. Ride your bike somewhere (like an ice cream place)

23. Read a good book

24. Have a game night with your friends

25. Fly a kite

26. Make s'mores

27. Go to an amusement park

28. Go-karting

29. Go to a farmer's market

30. Watch the sunrise

31. Watch the sunset

32. Try 5 new recipes

33. Bowling

34. Horseback Riding

35. Make homemade ice-cream

36. Play fugitive

37. Paint a canvas

38. Spend a whole day with no phone and no social media

39. Run through a sprinkler

40. Train and run a 5k (or longer if you want)

41. Draw with chalk

42. Have a picnic

43. Watch fireworks

44. Spend a day doing service

45. Play on a playground

46. Reconnect with an old friend

47. Go to a driving range

48. Catch fireflies

49. Listen to an album all the way through in one sitting

50. Keep a journal

51. Play with puppies at a pet store or shelter

52. Visit a place you went a lot as a child

53. Spend a day or afternoon with just one parent or sibling doing something together

54. Go thrift shopping

55. Watch a thunderstorm

56. Play frisbee

57. Treat yourself to a spa day or shopping day

58. Go to a waterpark

59. Feed ducks

60. Reorganize your room or rearrange it

61. Have a paint fight

62. Learn a new skill (ex: an instrument, knitting, yo-yoing..)

63. Make your own pizza

64. Have breakfast for dinner

65. Go paddle boarding

66. Go paint balling

67. Do a puzzle (at least 500 pieces)

68. Zip lining

69. Play beach volleyball

70. Play in the rain

71. Go to the beach

72. Go to a shooting range

73. Throw a party (any type of party)

74. Play with sparklers

75. Tell someone something you have always wanted them to know

76. Spend the day at the pool

77. Build a sandcastle

78. Try a new sport

79. Organize a Mario Kart tournament

80. If you can, go snorkeling

81. Ride a jetski

82. Swing on a rope swing

83. Learn the lyrics to a rap song

84. Tie dye a shirt

85. Stay up all night

86. Jump in a bouncy house

87. Buy a sketchbook and fill it up (if totally unartistic, get an adult coloring book)

88. Cook dinner on a fire

89. Get rid of old clothes or possessions to charity

90. Climb a tree

91. Celebrate a random holiday

92. Roll the windows down, turn up the music and go for a drive

93. Go to a big fair

94. Pick strawberries

95. Grow a plant

96. Go to a play

97. Try origami

98. Go on a date

99. Visit grandparents

100. Don't waste a single day

Hopefully this will give you ideas when you can't decide what to do on a summer day!