Epic Kids' Outdoor Bucket List (100 Things!)

Here's a massive list of 100 things for kids to do outside that don't involve electronics, but DO involve lots of great learning and physical development!  You're welcome.

1. Make a fort
2. Make slingshots
3. Toast marshmallows on a campfire
4. Whittle wood
5. Cook bracken tips to eat
6. Cook sea lettuce to eat
7. Use hand-held nets to catch little fish
8. Crab-hunt on mud flats
9. Create a seaweed collection
10. Make a nature mobile
11. Make a bottle with layered sands
12. Press flowers
13. Make an ocean viewer from a clear plastic tub
14. Play card or board games outdoors
15. Read books outdoors
16. Birdwatch
17. Play catch
18. Climb a tree
19. Lift heavy rocks and logs
20. Shovel
21. Rake
22. Dig
23. Dig with a spoon
24. Write in chalk
25. Run through a meadow
26. Play flashlight tag
27. Ride a scooter
28. Ride a bike
29. Swim
30. Do cartwheels and handstands
31. Brachiate in a tree
32. Hang from a rope swing
33. Climb a jungle gym
34. Roll down hills
35. Squat and look at the ants
36. Jump off things (rocks, stumps, raised garden beds)
37. Spin in a circle ten times with eyes open then with eyes closed
38. Rock hop at the seaside
39. Go upside down on the monkey bars or swing
40. Twist a swing up then let it spin you in circles
41. Use a screwdriver and hammer to make something outside
42. Play beach cricket
43. Bodysurf
44. Balance on logs and ropes
45. Play tennis against a wall
46. Bushwalk and bushbash
47. Go orienteering
48. Spot nocturnal animals with a flashlight
49. Identify plants
50. Explore rock pools
51. Collect specimens
52. Take photos
53. Hop and skip
54. Wrestle
55. Pop popcorn over a campfire
56. Crawl through a homemade tunnel
57. Splash in puddles
58. Race gutterboats
59. Make sandcastles or sand sculptures
60. Listen to birdsong and copy it
61. Blow and chase bubbles
62. Play flags
63. Play tag
64. Play hide-and-seek
65. Play kick-the-can
66. Skip rocks
67. Catch insects in a net
68. Run over sand
69. Slide down dunes
70. Climb fences
71. Shoot Nerf guns at toilet roll targets
72. Haul buckets of water
73. Climb a boulder and be king of the castle
74. Pull each other on a large sheet of cardboard
75. Plant new flowers
76. Walk up the tallest hill around
77. Be swung around in circles by Daddy
78. Go barefoot
79. Pick fruit or berries
80. Play hide-and-seek in the dark
81. Bring a guitar, light candles in the dark and sing
82. Collect pipis or mussels
83. Get and give piggybacks
84. Use sparklers in the dark
85. Pop fuchsias
86. Make a gnome house
87. Mark trails creatively with rock arrows
88. Make leaf rubbings
89. Go geocaching
90. Play charades outdoors
91. Play 'mosquito bites' (stick a red dot sticker on each other if you say a particular word)
92. Play water pistols or water bombs
93. Make maps using a compass
94. Learn knots
95. Search for things starting with each letter of the alphabet in order
96. Make and bury a time bomb
97. Create an obstacle course (including reciting funny poems or songs)
98. Knit
99. Stargaze
100. Go on a scavenger hunt to find a funny-shaped rock, a tiny shell, something orange, a piece of garbage, an animal scat, 2 kinds of seeds, and something pretty.

All Inside and no Outside turns this mama into Mister Grumpy, but the above list will fix it.

Time in nature rejuvenates, connects us to the Earth and to each other!

What's on your outdoor bucket list?  Please do share in the comments, I'd love to see this list grow.

If you like these ideas, maybe you want to pack yourself a Nature Backpack and get out there with our Leaf Hunt Printable.