100 Summer Activities

The summer holidays are the ideal opportunity for having fun and making memories. However, it can also be a little daunting for parents, keeping children entertained for 6 whole weeks or more! Here are 100 screen free activities for a summer of fun!

1. Have a water fight
2. Fly a kite
3. Make bubble snakes
4. Build sand castles
5. Have messy fun with some clean goop
6. Go to a pick your own farm
7. Ride bikes
8. Have a picnic, or teddy bears picnic
9. Do some spaghetti art
10. Do some outdoor chalking
11. Build a den
12. Make worms in mud pudding
13. Get creative with play dough
14. Wash the car or toys
15. Go on a nature photography walk
16. Roll down a hill
17. Feed the ducks
18. Make monster plant pots
19. Dance in the rain
20. Paint with water on the drive /patio
21. Make fairy soup or wizardry potions
22. Have a garden bug challenge
23. Play tag
24. Make wind chimes
25. Splash in a paddling pool
26. Roller skate
27. Try salt painting
28. Visit a farm
29. Go on a scavenger hunt
30. Have a pretend shop/cafe
31. Play board games
32. Go swimming
33. Make ice lollies
34. Go to a fete
35. Make your own sports day
36. Make shell pictures
37. Go crab fishing
38. Walk in the woods
39. Make a waterfall wall
40. Ball games
41. Junk modelling
42. Climb a tree
43. Do some blindfold tasting
44. Make up a treasure hunt
45. Play pooh sticks
46. Bath the dolls
47. Write a story
48. Dance to music
49. Make soap monsters
50. Make a fizzy science volcano
51. Do some cleaning together
52. Play hide and seek
53. Make lemonade
54. Bake cakes
55. Do some face painting
56. Make bird feeders
57. Have a BBQ
58. Pretend cooking
59. Blow bubbles
60. Read books
61. Skipping
62. Make mud pies
63. Make daisy chains
64. Do some bubble painting
65. Have a snails race
66. Create outdoor art with nature
67. Bird watching
68. Go geocaching
69. Paint outdoors
70. Collect and paint rocks
71. Visit the library
72. Play football
73. Make paper pinwheels
74. Put on a show
75. Make a miniature garden
76. Make and play balloon rockets
77. Make pizza
78. Potato printing
79. Go to the local park
80. Make some musical instruments to play
81. Go camping
82. Make a rain gauge
83. Press flowers
84. Make a collage
85. Make nature rubbings
86. Make a butterfly feeder
87. Go crabbing
88. Jump in waves
89. Ride scooters
90. Make your own marble run
91. Cook dinner as a family
92. Practice handstands and roly poly’s
93. Play hopscotch
94. Have a game of rounders
95. Make shrinky dinks
96. Play Lego
97. Build your own cardboard box doll’s house
98. Try Ice evacuation play
99. Make an obstacle course
100. Play with water balloons

Please feel free to print off this list of 100 screen free summer activities, keep it close by and you’ll have a summer full of fun, just like we did last year.

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