How to Make A Bucket List For Your Family This Summer
Now that things are changing and we’re able to get out more why not learn how to make a bucket list for your family!
Summer is almost here and that means more time off for everyone. So why not celebrate that freedom with a family bucket list. It’s great because not only will you be spending time as a family making the bucket list, but you’ll be spending time as a family doing it as well.
I actually got this idea from Katie Eborall. Sometimes things happen in life and we can’t do fun stuff right away, so this is a great way to ensure you still do them later!
How to Create a Bucket List For Your Family
All you need for this bucket list activity are:
- Slips of paper
- A large jar
- A marker.
When your kiddo asks for something they can’t do or have right now, write it down together and put it in the jar. This is your bucket list.
As Katie said on Facebook “we’ll work our way through the jar and be more grateful for the little and lovely things in our lives.”
In the meantime, the jar will fill up with so many wonderful and magical things that the whole family can look forward to.
Why This Bucket List Idea Helps Kids
Kids of all ages may have a hard time understanding why the can’t have fun right this minute. With work, school, and other things in life getting in the way, you can’t always have fun right now. But responsibility isn’t on their minds like ours, they just want to play!
So a bucket list helps them know you aren’t ignoring them, but they can’t do the fun things they want just this minute, but you will do them later.
This will also gives them something to look forward too, because let’s be honest, we could all use some motivation once in a while.
What Else You Can Do to Help Your Kids
Other ways you can help your kids understand: use phrases like “We can’t do that now, but here’s what we can do instead.”
The bucket list activity is a concrete way of reminding them of what they can do right now (create the bucket list).
How to Make a Bucket Journal
In the meantime too, we can help our kids wait to do those fun things in our bucket list by even creating a bucket journal!
What is a bucket journal?
Well, a bucket journal is a journal that you write down the details and plans of those things you want to do.
This would be a great activity to go along with your bucket list. Don’t know what to put in your journal? Here are some ideas! You could write down:
- Each activity you have done
- Details about the activity like:
- How fun it was
- Stuff you did
- People you saw
- Places you saw along the way
- How it made you feel
- People you went with
- Add a checklist of things you want to do or see when you get there
- Add photos you took
- Write down new ideas
I bought just plain journals and bought sticks, washi tape, pens, and markers, and let my kids decorate their journals to match them and we’ve been using them for each bucket list item we do out of the jar.
So make this summer exciting! Add places to explore, see, and do and do them together as a family! A bucket wish jar and a bucket journal are a perfect way to make this happen!
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