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Kids’ bucket list: 50 simple things to enjoy this summer

• Eat breakfast outdoors.

• Run barefooted in the grass.

• Roll down a big hill.

• Make a daisy chain.

• Climb a tree.

• Take a bunch of cups, bowls and jugs into the garden for some water play.

• Have a water fight.

• Jump on a trampoline covered in water balloons. 

• Spend the day in fancy dress.

• Have a picnic.

• Have a picnic indoors when it’s raining.

• Find a bridge over a river and have a game of Pooh Sticks.

• Go bug hunting in your garden or local park.

• Go for a walk in the woods.

• Do some bark rubbings.

• Get creative with some pavement chalks.

• Play a game of hop scotch

• Build a sandcastle.

• Dig a massive hole in the sand.

• Bury someone in it.

• Paddle in the sea.

• Collect some shells.

• Go looking for crabs.

• Take a pebble home and decorate it.

• Head to the local library and borrow as many books as you’re allowed.

• Stay up late because you’re having so much fun playing outdoors.

• Watch the sun set (if you’re allowed to stay up that late!).

• Play outside even when it’s raining.

• Have a disco in your living room.

• Build a den out of furniture, cushions and blankets.

• Feed the ducks or swans.

• Carry out a random act of kindness.

• Send a postcard to a friend or relative.

• Head out on your bike, scooter or roller skates.

• Eat chips at the seaside.

• Make home-made ice lollies.

• Have a family games night – board games, the Wii console, hide and seek… whatever works for you.

• Play ‘restaurants’ at meal times with the children taking the orders and cooking and serving the food as appropriate to their abilities.

• Make paper aeroplanes and fly them outside.

• Fly a kite.

• Visit somewhere you’ve never been before.

• Make homemade popcorn…

• …and have a family movie night. (One of these 80s movies might give you inspiration!)

• Buy a scrap book and stick in mementoes from your summer fun, and write about it.

• Grow a plant from a seed.

• Do a treasure hunt in your house or garden. Or go geo-caching if you’re feeling adventurous.

• Put on a show for your parents/grandparents.

• Sort out your toy cupboard and give some things you no longer play with to charity or a friend who is younger than you.

• Unplug for a whole day – grown ups too. No TV, radio, computers, tablets, smart phones (except essential phone calls).

• Eat a massive ice cream.