southern california blogger — With Kendra

Sharing our summer bucket list for 2022! We LOVE summer over at our house. I feel like it’s just so much fun and we love being outside every single day. I wanted to share some things we are wanting to do this summer to give you some ideas with your kids. Let me know what you plan on doing in the comments!

I bought a few new things from Target for the kids to use in our backyard. I like to do a little refresh outside and get some new water toys, bubbles, shovels and things like that. I love the Sun Squad line at Target for outdoor toys. They are all really affordable, super fun and colorful and great for summertime. I’ll link all the things I got for you in this post along with some other things online that look really cute too!

Summer Bucket List 2022

summer nature scavenger hunt
We love scavenger hunts these days. We did a spring one and one for Easter. I write down things like, something that crawls/something yellow/something flying and make some type of theme. The kids then draw a picture of what they find down on their clip board and it’s really a fun way to get us all outside together. For summer I’ll things like, a lizard, a bee, a brightly colored flower, ants, grasshopper and so on! Let me know if you make on for your kiddos!
arts & crafts
Painting is definitely our go-to craft. It’s so fun to see what they come up with. Some days I’ll have something for them to paint and other days I’ll just say paint whatever you’d like. We use craft paper or I’ll find boxes that’ll be thrown out for them to paint. One time we had a huge box and we made it into a little playhouse and I drew a door and windows then let them color the rest. We also love play doh and cookie cutters, dot markers and I love looking on Pinterest for specific ideas. And if you haven’t given your kids paint brushes and a cup of water to use outside you need to today! My kids will “paint” the rocks or fence for so long!!
beach days
The kids are at such a fun age for little afternoon beach trips. We love to hang at the beach for a while with our sand toys and then go out to a casual dinner together.
river trips
We are hoping to make a lot of these this summer! The river is one of our favorite places to be. We disconnect for a few days and just enjoy being outside and in the water. We wakeboard, paddle board, play corn hole, can jam, honestly you name it. Basically games all weekend long!
ice cream and old town
Some times we don’t feel like packing a big bag or doing anything that takes prep, but still want to do something. That’s when we will head to old town and get some ice cream together. Especially on a hot evening!
lots of time in the backyard
Our patio cover/deck is set to start on May 1st! I cannot wait to have that done by hopefully end of June. I need to go to Target and get one of those plastic pools. We had one last summer and used it SO much. So easy to cool off and the kids love it.
swimming at the grandparents house
Andrew’s parents live about 25 minutes from us, so we swim at their house a lot! Now that the girls can swim we are planning on going over there at least once a week!
legoland & safari park
We make a lot of trips to the safari park but I’d love to go to Legoland again!
family bike rides
Another FREE and fun thing we like to do with our family. We put Owen in the towing seat that attaches to Andrew’s bike. We usually will bike to a park and let the kids play for a while.