35 Ways to Welcome Summer

It’s officially the first day of summer! Here are some ideas you can try to celebrate the season:

1. Go on a picnic
2. Go swimming
3. Make a bird feeder
4. Make a fairy house
5. Go on a scavenger hunt around your neighborhood or through the woods
6. Release ladybugs – You can buy them online and send them out into your yard
7. Photograph spider webs with the morning dew
8. Visit (and play) in a waterfall
9. Cloud watch
10. Make s’mores
11. Play flashlight tag
12. Photograph flowers
13. Play Frisbee golf
14. Go canoeing
15. Go stargazing
16. Catch fireflies (and let them go again)
17. Go geocaching or letterboxing
18. Play putt-putt
19. Go on a night hike
20. Paint rocks
21. Start a nature journal
22. Visit a farmer’s market
23. Grow herbs
24. Read in a hammock
25. Go kayaking
26. Have a boat race
27. Go on an insect hunt
28. Go whitewater rafting
29. Visit a neighbor
30. Go fishing
31. Learn to whittle
32. Go berry picking
33. Go horseback riding
34. Learn to use a compass
35. Go camping (at a park or even in your backyard)

Photo by rosamore