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Create a Summer Bucket List

  By Marelisa

There are approximately 100 days from Memorial Day Sunday to Labor Day Monday. Make the most of the 100 days of summer by creating a Summer Bucket List. Here are lots of ideas.

Are you looking forward to the 100 days of summer?

Summer is here. Warm weather, watermelon-flavored-sorbets, sunglasses and sunscreen, long walks along the beach, and concerts in the park are just some of the things most people think of when summer rolls around. What are your plans for this summer?

The best way to have a great summer is to plan what you want to do. Below you'll find many ideas to pick and choose from so that you can begin right away to create your Summer Bucket List.

Summer on Wikipedia

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Make Lemonade

Here's a delicious a Gooseberry Patch recipe for lemonade:

4 c. watermelon, chopped
1 c. sugar
1-1/2 c. lemon juice
6 c. cold water

Place watermelon in a blender; process until smooth and set aside. In a large pitcher, combine sugar and lemon juice; stir until sugar is dissolved. Stir in water. Add watermelon; mix well. Serve very cold; stir well before serving. Makes 8-10 servings.



Beach Fun!

Beach
Beach

Go To the Beach

What's summer with at least one trip to the beach? When you go to the beach, do all of the following:

  • Load up on beach toys: pails, shovels, sand molds, and so on.
  • Build a sandcastle.
  • Go water skiing.
  • Go jet skiing.
  • Play beach tennis.
  • Lie on a tower under a large beach umbrella and read a novel by your favorite author.
  • Go surfing.
  • Go boogey boarding.
  • Build a bonfire and make hot dogs and S'Mores.

Create a Water Park in Your Backyard

Get a slip n' slide, turn on the sprinklers, get a few water guns, and fill some water balloons with water. You can even get an inflatable pool and fill it to the brim.

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Summer Food

Have all the great food and drink that you associate with summer:

  • Barbecue
  • Hawaiian Punch
  • Homemade Ice Cream
  • Coconut Popsicles
  • Corn on the Cob
  • Potato Salad
  • Fruit from the Farmer's Market
  • Iced Tea
  • Iced Coffee

Celebrate Summer

Summer Recipes
Celebrate Summer
Enjoy the long, lazy season of picnics by the river, old fashioned ice cream socials, seaside vacations, parades, flags, fireworks and burgers hot off the grill. Its filled ...
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Summer Activities With the Kids

  • Fly a kite
  • Draw with sidewalk chalk
  • Ride a carousel
  • Go to a baseball game
  • Have a scavenger hunt
  • Go fishing
  • Play miniature golf
  • Put together a summer scrapbook
  • Have a car wash and raise money for charity
  • Run a 5K
  • Learn how to hula-hoop
  • Go camping.
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Go On a Picnic

This picnic cooler for four is ideal for a picnic in the park, in the mountains, or at the beach. You can even use it for boat trips.

  • It has a removable wheeled cart.
  • The cooler compartment contains a different section for wine and food.
  • It's leak proof.
  • It includes combination corkscrew, cheese knife, acrylic wine glasses, coordinating melamine plates and napkins, stainless steel flatware. 

Picnic Cooler

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What's on your summer bucket list?

Jewelsofawe  on 07/14/2011
Fun!
Victoria  on 06/02/2011
Heading to Cedar Point is on my bucket list this summer.
lisadh  on 05/30/2011
Going to Disneyland is on my bucket list for this summer, and we'll be checking it off the list in a few weeks!
thelesleyshow  on 05/30/2011
Wow! I love how you laid this whole Wizz Article out. Love the zazzle items and just the whole visual appeal. nicely done.
irenemaria  on 05/29/2011
Of course summer is easy. No jacket, no boots or scarves.
Jimmie  on 05/27/2011
Oh my. Mungo Jerry is weird. Really, really weird.
(Online)
chefkeem  on 05/27/2011
Cross the bucket off the list and then off to the beach! :)

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