School’s Out…
So, its a pretty exciting time right about now if you’re finishing school: exams are over, there’s nothing you can do now but wait for results day. You have 6 weeks of uninterrupted adventures and lol-worthy excursions with your mates before you have to start adulting for real.
No matter what you have to look forward to in September, whether its back to school, off to college or out into the working world… Here are 67 relatively inexpensive but fun-filled ideas to make sure you have the most memorable summer ever. After all that hard work – you deserve it, right!?!
The Ultimate Bucket List:
- Go camping with mates
- Get on your bikes and go offroading
- Set up a charity car wash (hint 😉)
- Experiment with food – try to cook something new and exotic or just order a takeaway in
- Go to a silent disco
- Camp at a festival
- Learn to skateboard or rollerskate
- Swim in the sea
- Learn a language
- Create a website
- Make a pinhole camera and create some awesome unique and homemade photographs
- Come Dine with Me: get three friends and each make a three-course meal. Vote on the winner.
- Go Geocaching
- Make an outfit entirely from scratch out of fabric from old clothes
- Create a collage of your squad photos from over the years
- Make a scrapbook – it’s like a real-life Pinterest!
- Build a treehouse
- Train for a Triathlon
- Make your own tent and spend the night in it
- Learn an instrument
- Go Aqua-zorbing
- Make a movie – all you need is a smartphone and some basic editing software like iMovie!
- Do a charity run…
- Start a dog walking business
- Put on a gig/concert for all your friends and family
- Road trip!
- Re-decorate your room
- Do a tenner challenge with your mates. All start with a tenner and you have 1 month to make a profit – The person with the biggest profit buys dinner – everybody wins 😉
- Go snorkelling
- Attend a roller disco (old skool)
- Start a band
- Go to a comedy show
- Read a book a week for 6 weeks
- Take up yoga
- Organise a massive water-fight with your mates
- Try to break a world record
- Go to a car boot sale and sell your old crap
- Befriend an elderly person
- Have a go at mountain boarding
- Fly a kite
- Have a powder paint fight
- Have a picnic
- Volunteer at a food bank or soup kitchen
- Get into local politics – campaign for change
- Start a sports league
- Go rockpooling
- Make up a dance routine – or if you’re not great at choreography – learn a Beyonce one
- Try bouldering
- Plan a trip to a theme park
- Learn to juggle
- Create a giant slip n slide in the park with some tarpaulin, washing up liquid and water.
- Try surfing
- Host a karaoke party
- Go paddleboarding
- Write a bucket list – try to tick off as many as possible in 6 weeks
- The Paperclip challenge – Start with a paper clip and trade your way to an Xbox
- Get 1,000 followers on Instagram
- Go boombox rollerblading
- Stay in a caravan
- Learn to play poker
- Gaming marathon – get your mates together for 48 solid hours of hardcore gaming and snacks
- Movie marathon: watch all 8 Harry Potter movies back-to-back
- Organise a potluck BBQ and invite everyone you know
- Make it your mission to actually ‘catch em all’
- Write a song
- Invent something
- Visit a waterpark
Do you have any suggestions? Let us know in our community.
