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
Here are some tips & Videos from The Innovative Dad about Bucket Lists
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