50+ Fun Family Ideas for Summer

Looking for ways to cure summer boredom? Want to bond as a family and grow closer to God? I’ve come up with over fifty ideas to help kids have fun this summer and keep on learning. So GO create some memories together.

Go Crafting

1.      Make your own stickers here

2.      Create a time capsule

3.      Decorate stones with Bible verses or blessings to place in your garden or around your house.

4.      Make a puzzle. Take a photo, print it out, cut it up into pieces and put it back together.

Go Cook

5.      Make homemade ice cream

6.      Make your own pizzas or calzones

7.      Make s’mores

8.      Cook together. Find some fun recipes here

Go Grow with God

9.    Write Bible verses with chalk on the driveway

10.   Take a family walk around the neighborhood and pray for your neighbors

11.   Act out a Bible story

12.   Plan a backyard Bible study

13.   Memorize Bible verses

14.   Make a prayer jar with your prayer requests for the summer. Place it on the dinner table.

15.   Create a prayer board. Place somewhere everyone can see it. Put prayer requests on one side and answers to prayer on the other.

16.   Design a blessings box. Each day write down your blessings to put in the box. Share with your family each week.

17.   Find some fun Bible STEM activities here

18. Go on a Bible Scavenger Hunt

Go Learn

19.   Get away from screens and create a “brain box.” Place learning games, coloring pages, books, puzzles, and other learning activities in the box. Pull it out each day and let kids pick what they want to do.

20.   Capture bugs, check out books to learn about them, take photos and make a journal. Write down what you learn about each bug.

21.   Visit a museum and create a scavenger hunt. Write down new things you learn about different objects.

Go Outside

22.   Plan an outdoor movie night

23.   Blow bubbles

24.   Have a water balloon fight

25.   Take a family bike ride

26.   Eat dinner outside

27.   Plan a picnic

28.   Go hiking

29.   Have a campout

30.   Plan a field day in your backyard. Check out a lesson plan from my book here

31.   Participate in a race

32.   Find some fun outdoor games here

Go Play

33.   Create your own scavenger hunt

34.   Do the Library Scavenger Hunt

35.   Join a parade

36.   Have a family game night

37.   Put on a talent show for your parents. Have your parents video the show to always remember

Go Read & Write

38.   Visit the library

39.   Start a summer book club

40.   Write a short story

41.   Tell stories around a campfire

42.   Send encouraging notes to friends and family in the mail

43.   Write a poem about what you love about summer

44.   Act out a story after you read the book

45.   Start a summer journal

46.   Make a movie. Write your own scenes or use ones from a book. Assign siblings and/or friends a role and pick a director and someone to video.

Go Serve

47.   Collect flowers for a friend or neighbor

48.   Serve at a food pantry

49.   Color or draw pictures for the elderly at a local nursing home

50.   Visit a local nursing home

51.   Pick up trash on your street (be sure to wear gloves)

52.   Join the Bag-Packing Challenge for the homeless here

Just Go…

53.   Watch an athletic event

54.   Go out for breakfast

55.   Visit the zoo

Check out my previous blog posts for more ideas:

10 Weeks of Summer

Ways to Get Kids Reading this Summer