Make a fun bucket list (or use ours) to make the most of those preschool years!
Childhood flies—blink once and your child is ready for school. Kindergarten can be a blur of PTA meetings, lunch boxes, and homework. Savor the time before school by making a bucket list of fun (and useful!) things to do together.
- Visit a working farm and learn where food comes from. If you can, gather eggs, milk a cow, or pick and plant food.
- Plant seeds and watch them grow together. Sunflowers, nasturtium, marigolds, and pumpkins are all easy to grow from seed.
- Catch a frog, tadpole, ladybug, or lightning bug. Be sure to release them later.
- Build a sandcastle as tall as your child.
- Read classic books together, like The Swiss Family Robinson, Heidi, Charlotte’s Web, or James and The Giant Peach.
- Go fishing.
- Teach your children to use and carry scissors properly.
- Draw a pictures of each other.
- Collect and donate gently used toys and clothes to a women’s or homeless shelter.
- Learn to count to 100.
- Teach your child to skip rocks.
- Have dinner together at a “fancy” restaurant.
- Learn to say, “Hello!” in five different languages.
- Try out a new sport.
- Learn how to swim—it’s fun, and it’s an important skill. You can teach them yourself or sign them up for lessons.
- Camp out in the backyard. Pitch a tent, roast marshmallows, and tell stories.
- Go to the circus or attend live theatre.
- Bake a cake together.
- Pick out new, seasonal vegetables to try at your local farmers’ market.
- Spread a blanket in a park or the backyard and count the stars.
Tell us what’s on your bucket list!
