Our Summer Bucket List

     So, it's summer once again, which means time for our Summer Bucket List.  I started posting our pictures doing some of the summer activities on Facebook and have had a lot of questions on how to make one.  So here ya go.....      A few summers ago, I came across this fun idea of a Summer Bucket List from this great blog Little Wonders' Days.  Liam and I had a lot of fun coming up with ideas for our own Summer Bucket List in year's past, so I wanted to do it again this summer.   If you haven't done this before here's how it works.....

** I pretty much got the basic outline from Kelly's blog and adapted the master list to what our family wanted to do for the summer, special events around our area, and fun local places to visit **

• First, make a master list of all the things your family will enjoy doing this summer.
• Then break it down into how much time each activity will take and color code them by that.
• Write each activity on the corresponding colored coded paper.
• Take a simple sand bucket and decorate it with sticker letters, then place the papers inside.
• Each day or evening, depending on your already scheduled activities, someone pulls out one piece of paper. (So, if you have  busy day, then you would pick out a color coded paper for an activity for an hour or less, if you have a full day open, then you would pick out a color coded paper for an all day activity).

I've broke down our activities into 4 time categories with corresponding colors:

• All Day Activities
• Half Day Activities
• 2 Hour Activities
• 1 Hour or Less Activities

Here's what I came up with for our 2014 Summer Bucket List...

All Day Activities:

• El Paso Zoo
• Go on the Wyler Aerial Tramway
• Go to Bob-O's Family Fun Center
• Visit White Sands National Monument
• Go to Carlsbad Caverns
• Visit Jungle Jaks
• Visit the Outlet Shoppes of El Paso
• Go to Wet-N-Wild Waterworld
• Go Discover Dinosaurs
• Go to Western Playland Amusement Park
• War Eagles Air Museum
• Go to El Paso Exploreum
• Go to The Old Apple Barn
• Go to Adventure Zone

Half Day Activities:

• Go to the Farmer's Market
• Visit the Railroad Museum
• Visit the Museum of Art
• Have a play date
• Go to the Aquatic Center
• Visit the Alameda Park Zoo
• Visit the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum
• Go to the New Mexico Museum of Space History
• Go to the Southern New Mexico Wine Festival
• Visit the Sunland Park Racetrack
• Make Pottery
• Go to FunTrackers
• Go to the Desert Hills Pool
• Go to Fantasy Place
• Go to Jump Land

2 Hour Activities:

• Go to Story Time
• Visit a Bookstore
• Go to Chuck E. Cheese
• Visit the Museum of Nature & Science
• Have a picnic 
• Feed the Ducks
• Play at the playground
• Go Bowling
• Make a Volcano
• Go to Gym Magic
• Go to Peter Piper Pizza
• Visit Big Daddy's Flea Market
• Go see the Space Murals Museum
• Go to My Kids' Cafe
• Go to the Park
• Water table fun
• Finger paint
• Go see a movie
• Build something 
• Visit the Gene Roddenberry Planetarium
• Bounce house
• Visit a factory
• Kickball 
• Go to indoor play place
• Go to the Branigan Library
• Paintball art 
• Play in sprinkler

1 Hour or Less Activities:

• Make Gak
• Get a Cupcake
• Water balloons
• Go on a Shape Hunt
• Ride bikes
• Pool party
• Blow bubbles
• Make "Five-Minute Ice Cream"
• Draw with sidewalk chalk
• Make a craft
• Fly kites
• Have a tea party
• Water gun fight
• Make Popsicles
• Go for Donuts
• Go for Ice Cream
• Go on a Hike
• Play board games
• Get some Frozen Yogurt
• Make Sunlight Prints
• Make Balloon Rockets
• Make a fort
• Paint a self portrait 
• Ceramics 
• Soccer
• Bocci Ball
• Silly String

     We have so many fun things planned this summer!!  If you have never done a Summer Bucket List, I suggest you do!  It's a great way to spend some fun family time together over the summer.