Recently, I was inspired to create a Bucket List of things that I would like to accomplish before I die. I thought that I would also make a Bucket List that just pertains to this summer as well. When I go back to Weber in the fall, I want to feel like I actually accomplished stuff this summer instead of just sitting around.
Also, I was inspired by Phineas and Ferb to make a to do list for the summer. Yes, I am 18 and I know Phineas and Ferb should be beneath me, but the show is so amazingly awesome that it doesn’t even matter. It’s a really good show!
Anyways, I’m showing you guys the list of things I want to accomplish this summer, and as I complete stuff, I’ll check it off…or cross it out. Most likely cross it out. And I’ll maybe put a picture with the complete task if I feel up for it. I haven’t decided yet. Now, I know some of the things on the list are really easy like ‘go swimming’ or ‘make a fort’, but I think sometimes you need easy tasks as well as more difficult ones to keep you motivated to actually do things. I mean, who wants to accomplish things if they’re all really hard or really easy?
Okay. Enjoy this list, and maybe you’ll be inspired to compile your own! Note: I honestly went to like 5 sites and took all the ideas from those lists and put them together on this one…although I only put the cooler stuff on this list. Oh, and some of these things might seem childish, but it’ll be fun to do them anyways! And some of the items may also seem similar to each other, but it isn’t my fault.
Adopt a word- List 20 things you like about someone. Now give the list to that person and make their day.
- Host a movie marathon — but choose the DVDs with your eyes closed. Don't forget popcorn!
- Make your own pet! Gather some rocks from outdoors and glue or draw eyes on them.
- Prepare some rainbow jello.
- Raining? Don't hide indoors. Whether you're 3, 13, 33 or 63, get out there and splash in the puddles. Feel the joy!
- Give some old clothes a new life. Tie-dye a t-shirt or repurpose some jeans.
- Paint a room in your house. Or do a painting of a room in your house.
- Write a letter to someone using only letters cut from newspapers and magazines. Or whip up a quick one online. Now mail it!
- Microwave s'mores. Or peanut butter s'mores.
- Memorize your favorite poem.
- Go for a whole day without speaking. Can you do it? Challenge friends or family members to join you.
- Write a letter to yourself to be read at your high school graduation. Or your wedding. Or at your 50th birthday party. What would you tell yourself?
- Try not to think about purple gorillas.
- Drink 9 glasses of water in one day.36. Learn the art of calligraphy.
- Send a thank you note to someone who did something nice for you.
- Write a book, a story or a poem. Print it from your printer, or just handwrite it using your nicest penmanship. Now give it to someone as a gift — or donate it to a library.
- Challenge yourself to write a story that's only 100 words long (it's not as easy as you think!) — share it with us in the comments here!
- Illustrate an entire story (maybe your autobiography!) with stick people.
- Play with your food.
- Catalog your books. Or inventory your socks.
- Try to catch 25 grapes in your mouth, one at a time.
- Use chalk to write something encouraging on the sidewalk — in 10 different places.
- Brighten someone's day! Leave inspirational notes between the pages of library books. Or download spoke cards to secretly attach to people's bikes.
- Read a manga.
- Whip up some chocolate banana pops.
- Prepare a picnic to eat in your backyard. Or in the park. Or even in your living room.
- Engage in an epic waterhose battle (in the yard, not the house). Or how about a shaving cream fight? Or pelt each other with pudding!
- Learn a magic trick.
- When's the last time you made a fingerpainting? Create a masterpiece. Then try painting with your toes.
- Dye your hair with Kool-Aid (assure your parents it's not permanent).
- Go for a walk with a memory box. Fill it with objects you find (rocks, old birds' nests, flowers, leaves, rocks, etc).
- Plant flowers. If you don't have anywhere to plant them outdoors, plant them in a pot indoors instead.
- Write a haiku. Or get the internet to write one for you.
- Tint sand with food color (or powdered paint) and create sand art in jars. Or make sand pictures.
- Sculpt with tinfoil.
- Blow gigantic bubbles.
- Count how many licks it takes you to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop.
- Doodle on anything BUT a piece of paper. Try doodling on a leaf or a shoe ... or even a My Little Pony!
- Whip up some homemade smoothies. Or slurpees.
- Laugh 400 times today. Keep count.
- Learn Morse Code.
- Head to your local dollar store and pick up supplies to make some of these awesome crafts.
- Become a tattoo artist.
- Read a novel from beginning to end in one sitting (it's ok to take bathroom breaks).
- Concoct a baking soda volcano.
- Learn how to tie a necktie.
- Go to the library
- Go for ice cream
- Go to the park
- Choose a recipe from a children's cookbook, then make it
- Try sardines
- Make bean pictures
- Go to the beach
- Make cornstarch "goop"
- Make coffee filter butterflies
- Sleep in a tent
- Make an indoor fort
- Make an outdoor fort
- Climb a tree
- Play with water
- Get read to
- Make popsicles
- Have a tea party with the stuffed animals
- Fold a newspaper hat
- Go to farmers market; get a tamale; listen to the music there
- Do crayon rubbings
- Play in the sand
- Play hopscotch
- Look at the clouds
- Make a "telephone" with string and paper cups
- Make a wax paper crayon melt--hang it in the window
- Go on a "color hunt"
- Bake some cupcakes and deliver them to friends and family.
- Do 25 jumping jacks!
- Go to the movies with your siblings.
- Make dinner for your family.
- Have a sleepover party and watch scary movies.
- Have a bubble bath.
- Make a mixed CD of your favorite songs and title it "The soundtrack of my life".
- Buy some crayons and a coloring book.
- Read a book based on a movie you have seen.
- Go to a museum.
- Swing on the swings at the park.
- Learn how to define and spell 5 new words from the dictionary.
- Put on the radio and dance.
- Buy a hula-hoop & start using it!
- Learn some words in another language
- Buy a fabulous sun-hat
- Have an Elton John singalong
- Lie around in the grass with your sunglasses & a pair of headphones on
- Walk barefoot through the grass.
- Build a sandcastle.
- Grab a blanket, spread it out in the grass and cloud watch.
- Catch lightning bugs.
- Eat the Best Banana Split ever.
- Take a nap under a shade tree.
- Go swimming.
- Play with water balloons.
- Sketch a flower that is growing in your yard.
- Go fishing.
- Sleep in your backyard, under the stars.
- Write a poem
- Write a song.
- Write a play.
- Start your novel.
- Paint your toe nails.
- Paint your fingernails with bright sparkly polish.
- Watch the sunrise.
- Watch the sunset.
- Eat some fruit with fruit dip.
- Skip stones at a lake.
- Get a new hairdo.
- Make a CD of your favorite summertime songs.
- Go stargazing.
- See some fireworks.
- See a baseball game.
- Play mini-golf.
- Create a sidewalk mural with chalk.
- Visit “High rock”
