Family Bucket List

by alichava | Jul 30, 2019 | Children, Entertainment, Travel

A few years ago, I saw a post on Facebook from someone I was in youth group with about what her family would be doing during that summer. She had a fun handwritten list of activities that her family had created. It had things like a dance party, make slime, hike, etc. I thought it was a great idea and we decided to create one as a family, but also focus on the rich adventures that we could take advantage of here in DC. I divide the list into three times of the year: Summer, Fall/Winter, Winter/Spring. And as we have weekends free of birthday parties or Bnai mitzvah, we fill in with an adventure. As I see activities on people’s Facebook feeds, I also add it to my list.

I’m sure there are many other adventure to add, but here is what I have put together. What other activities have you done that I should add?

• African American History Museum
• Air & Space
• Air & Space (Dulles)
• American Art Museum
• American History Museum
• American Visionary Art Museum (Baltimore)
• AnneMarie Sculpture Garden (Soloman’s Island)
• Aquarium (Baltimore)
• Arcade@Smithsonian
• Art Investigators @ National Art Gallery
• Artechouse
• Badlands
• Barbies
• Beach
• Bike Rides
• Blokus
• Botanic Garden Model Trains
• Bowling
• Brookside Gardens Glow Lights
• Brookside Gardens Wings of Fantasy
• Building Museum
• Camping
• Capitol
• Caps Practice
• Chanukah Fire Truck
• Chanukah on Ice – Pentagon City
• Chocolate World  (Hershey)
• Crayola Experience (Easton)
• Cunningham State Park
• Damascus Children’s Museum, Stop Play
• Davis Kids Museum
• Diggerland (Cherry Hill)
• Dress Up
• Dumbarton Oaks
• Family Movie Nights
• Finger Painting
• Flying Circus Air Show (Sundays through Oct)
• Folkart Festival (Beginning of July)
• Frederick Trains Museum
• Fruit Picking
• Georgetown Glow
• Glen Echo Theater
• Glenstone Museum
• Great Falls Hike
• Harper’s Ferry
• Horseback Riding
• Hyperkidz
• Ice Skating
• Imagination Stage
• Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
• Kennedy Center
• Kid Museum
• Laser Tag
• Leesylvania State Park
• Lego Discovery Center
• Library of Congress
• Lighting President’s Park
• Live Music
• Magnatiles
• Make Necklaces
• Maryland Science Center (Baltimore)
• Microscope
• Millennium Stage @Kennedy Center
• Miniature Golf
• Minor League Baseball
• Monopoly
• Monster Golf
• Mount Vernon (Christmas Day)
• Nasa Goddard Visiting Center
• National Aquarium
• National Arboretum
• National Engraving
• National Geographic
• National History Museum
• National Menorah
• National Postal Museum
• Nats Game – Jewish Heritage Day
• Natural History Museum
• Newseum – Kids are Free this Summer
• Occoquan Wildlife Refuge
• Olney Children’s Ballet Theater
• Parks
• Patuxent Wildlife Refuge
• Pinstripes Bowling
• Play Video Games
• Playdates
• Play-Doh
• Port Discovery
• Portrait Gallery
• Postal Museum
• Potomac Paddle Boats
• Rock Creek Planetarium
• Rummikub
• Scrabble
• See Fireworks
• Sesame Place (PA)
• Set
• Shakespeare in the Garden
• Show at local Theater
• Sledding
• Snap Circuits
• Snow Tubing
• Solomon’s Island
• Sorry
• South Mountain Creamery
• Splash Park
• Strathmore
• Sugarloaf Mountain
• Sunflowers at Mckee Beshers Wildlife Management
• Tidal Basin
• Train Rides
• Trolley Museum
• Turkey Hill Experience
• Turtle Park
• Volunteer
• Walkersville Southern Railroad (May – Oct)
• Wharf DC
• White House
• Wolftrap Children’s Theater
• Zoo
• Zoo Lights

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