Summer Bucket List

Does anyone else have a tough time deciding on fun stuff to do last minute? Well, we are those people! Dannie and I always try to think of things to do on the weekends and nothing ever comes to mind because 1. It's last minute or 2. We don't have the money. We decided to put together a summer bucket list. We thought it would be fun with Olivia also and would give us a chance to put our phones away and spend more time with her. Although, I'm sure we will be documenting it so I can make a list at the end of the summer of what we actually did.

It took us a few hours to sit down and think of activities that sounded fun as well as things we already do, but would like to do more of. We get a lot of rain here in Central Florida, so we needed a lot of indoor activities for rainy days. Dannie is only here on the weekends, so we didn't need a huge bucket list. Since Olivia is still young we can repeat a few of the indoor activities while Dannie is working.

This is what I used:

Colored popsicle sticks (purchased from The Dollar Tree)

1 Sharpie or pen

1 jar or plastic cup

Colored card stock

1. We separated the popsicle sticks by color and made different categories. (Outdoor-yellow, Indoor activities-purple, Water activities-blue, Family time-green, Crafts-red, and Food related-orange)

2. We wrote out the activities that we wanted to do on each color and placed them in the jar.

3. Afterwards, I cut out little tabs with colored card stock and hung them around the top of the jar. This will direct us when we're picking a certain color/category.

Our bucket list ideas:

Outdoor-yellow: Park day, take a trip to Lowe's & pick out flower's to plant, picnic in the park, find an open field and fly a kite, watch fireworks on July 4th, go watch a movie outdoors in the park (a lot of local parks participate in this locally), and visit an outdoor zoo.

Indoor activities-purple: Paint a picture or send cards to Instagram friends, color together, build a fort (Dannie is especially excited for this one), family blog fun, sleepover in the living room, dance party (Olivia's favorite), and movie/popcorn night.

Water activities-blue: Sprinkler fun, watch the sunset at Ft. Island Gulf Beach, beach day, splash pad, trip to the Tampa Aquarium, and go swimming at grannies house.

Family time-green: Go to the park with Abuela, go visit great-granny, themed dinner with the family, sibling get together, and play date with the cousins.

Crafts-red: Design shirt images on my Silhouette for Olivia, paint a canvas, finger paint with Olivia, take a photo an hour all day, Pinterest crafts, and chalk art on the sidewalk.

Food related-orange: Visit local Farmer's Market, Date night at Mojo's (we always take Olivia, she loves it here), DIY pizza night, ice cream night at Twistee Treat, visit local food truck, dinner on the patio, and bake sugar cookies and decorate them.

All of these activities are pretty cheap minus some of the water related items. We really don't need require big, extravagant entertainment, so that is how you can keep this cheap and fun! Good luck and have fun!