For those of you who follow my blog regularly, you know I am challenging myself to spend 300 hours outside.
Now, after I did the math, I realized it was 3.3 hours outside each day. Â That’s a lot of time. Â We are 21 days (and 58 hours and 30 minutes) in, and my girls are getting bored. Â Heck, Mama is getting bored! Â So I decided to bust out a list of everything we could do outside.
Without further ado:
101 things to do outside this summer
- Visit new parks
- Have a picnic in the yard
- Visit the splash pad
- Check out a pool
- Paint with ice chalk
- Walk to get ice cream
- “Wash” play dishes
- Run through the sprinkler
- Wash the car
- Plant corn and measure it as it grows
- Picnic at the park
- Build a fort
- Go Geocaching
- Jump in puddles after a rainstorm
- Create a backyard obstacle course
- Do chalk outside
- Play follow the leader
- Go to a baseball game
- Go on a scavenger hunt
- Look for different type of trees
- Head to an orchard and pick some fruit
- DIY “drive in” movie
- Make outdoor “roads” to drive on
- Dance in the rain
- Bird watch
- Head to some fairs or festivals
- Make silhouettes with water
- Catch fireflies
- Fly a kite
- Play tag
- Roast s’mores
- Have dinner on the deck/patio
- Make a nature collage
- Go for a bike ride
- Go on a Nature Scavenger hunt
- Read a book outside
- Cloud watch
- Paint outside
- Have friends over and make a “no hands” ice cream sundae
- Roll down a hill
- Camp out in the backyard
- Go for a boat ride
- Walk a dog
- Build and paint a bird feeder
- Have an outside dance party
- Build a sandcastle
- Tie-die shirts
- Make a time capsule
- Do leaf rubbings
- Go on an ABC scavengert hunt
- Make friendship bracelts
- Adult day camp
- Go camping
- Jump rope
- Play soccer with friends
- Take pictures outside
- hula-hoop
- Make a pine-cone bird feeder
- Go fishing
- Jump rope
- Plant a garden
- Do sparklers (with adult supervision of course)
- Just let the kids run around
- Wash bikes
- Plant flowers and paint the pot
- Take a nap in a hammock (wishful thinking, I know)
- Have a corn hole competition
- Sell lemonade at a stand
- See how many jumping jacks you can do
- Do yoga outside
- Free play with boxes
- Watch butterflies
- Play with bubbles (or even try making your own)
- Do a progressive brunch with neighbors, eating outside
- Head to the zoo
- Host a play date
- Play bocce ball
- Pretend to be a pirate and search for burred treasure
- Observe insects with a magnifying glass
- Â Play hide-and-seek
- Have a BBQ
- Play ladder ball
- Create you own garden makers
- Have a pie throwing contest
- Go to a baseball game
- Go on a walk and count how many birds you see
- Pick asparagus
- Have a water balloon fight
- Go horseback riding
- Build your own splash pad
- Make a butterfly garden
- Â Build a race track (or draw one with chalk)
- Do you own putt-putt golf course
- Find new outside areas to take picture at
- Do a puppet show outside
- Find boxes to build a giant Jenga game
- Have a watermelon seed spitting contest
- Watch the sunset
- Play tennis
- Visit a farmer’s market
- Weed the garden (hey, you have to take car of the one you grew)
If you want this printable list, you can get it here