Summer bucket list for couples

These 80+ ideas for your couple’s summer bucket list will see your summer full of fun!

The heat warms your skin the minute you step outside. The sound of cicadas fill the air. Everything feels slow, almost heavy.

It’s summer time.

The sun rises early and sets late, and the days themselves stretch forward seemingly without end.

It’s the perfect time of the year to reconnect as a couple, to spend time together with intention, and to experience new things.

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It’s the perfect time for a bucket list.

Creating a summer bucket list is something I recommend couples do every summer.

This is for several reasons.

• it’s the chance to create some shared goals
• novel experiences act to slow down time

And while a bucket list is generally highly personalized, most of us could do with some inspiration every now and again!

Use the categories I’ve provided to brainstorm additional ideas for your own perfect summer.

At home ideas for your couple’s summer bucket list

There’s plenty of bucket list ideas that you can achieve this summer without even leaving your house.

1. Make a backyard movie theater
2. Buy a pizza oven and make pizza from scratch (try these pizza recipes)
3. Make or buy a fire pit, roast marshmallows and / or make s’mores
4. Sleep under the stars
5. Plant flowers that blossom in winter for some winter cheer
6. Plant a tree together
7. Plant a vegetable garden
8. Learn how to make iced tea or coffee
9. Grab a telescope or star-gazing binoculars and get up close and personal with the night sky
10. Watch the sunrise and make a cooked breakfast
11. Set up a hammock and lie in there together and read
12. Have a summer mocktail making contest
13. Make homemade ice cream
14. Invite your family over for a barbecue
15. Make a time capsule and bury it in the backyard

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Free or cheap ideas for your couple’s summer bucket list

Making a memory to last a lifetime doesn’t have to cost much – if anything at all! These bucket list ideas are free or easily affordable.

1. Make a sand castle
2. Walk along the beach
3. Play at the park
4. Go on a cheap weekend getaway
5. Have a romantic picnic
6. Go on a night picnic (here’s your picnic food menu)
7. Walk your dog every day for 30 days
8. Go night swimming
9. Go camping
10. Check out local hikes
11. Walk to a local waterfall
12. Go on a tandem bike ride
13. Go shopping at a farmer’s market and then make dinner from the ingredients 
14. Attend a BBQ cooking school
15. Go skinny dipping
16. Make love outside
17. Take a picture for every day of summer, and make a book from your pics
18. Go berry picking and then whip up a pie with the fruits of your labor
19. Learn how to play chess and play with locals at the park
20. Drive to your local make-out point and … make out
21. Try a new summer salad recipe for every week of summer
22. Make a bonfire on the beach and then relax and enjoy watching the flames

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Physical ideas for your couple’s summer bucket list

Hot weather can make you feel a little sluggish – reverse that by incorporating some some physical challenges into your bucket list!

1. Train for and compete in a 10km event
2. Hike through a national park
3. Go mountain biking 
4. Try waterskiing
5. Take a surfing lesson
6. Try paddle boarding
7. Play a game of baseball at your local park
8. Take tennis lessons
9. Learn how to swim
10. Have fun trying out archery
11. Go kayaking
12. Go tubing
13. Have a rock climbing lesson
14. Go snorkeling or scuba diving
15. Enter a beach volley tournament (or simply watch one!)

Fun summer activities for your couple’s bucket list

Sometimes you want to tick some things off that are just plain old fashioned fun!

1. Attend a sporting event
2. Get retro and go roller skating
3. Have a 4th of July date
4. Go to an amusement park
5. Stay the night in a tiny home
6. Fly a kite
7. Go ziplining
8. Attend an outdoor theater performance
9. Go fishing
10. Be an audience member on your fave tv show
11. Go horse riding
12. Get lost in an outdoor maze
13. Play hopscotch
14. Go to a drive through movie
15. Play pétanque
16. Go on a garden tour (though if your husband is like mine, whether he considers this “fun” is debatable!)

Luxury ideas for your couple’s summer bucket list 

Given that bucket lists are meant to be once in a lifetime experiences, here’s some truly luxurious items to add.

1. Go in a hot air balloon ride
2. Have a couple’s spa day with body scrub and a massage to follow
3. Go on a helicopter ride over a scenic site like a lake, mountain or harbor
4. Attend an outdoor concert
5. Bungy jump over a river
6. Do a bridge climb
7. Go paragliding
8. Take a jet boat ride
9. Dine at a rooftop lounge
10. Hire a convertible and go on a road trip
11. Go on a river cruise 
12. Charter a yacht
13. Visit a luxury show home
14. Go swimming with dolphins
15. Vacation on a tropical island
16. Watch the sunrise in Paris

The warm weather of summer makes so many things possible – and yet if we are not intentional with our time, the days can slip through our fingers.

Make the most of your summer this year by seeing how many of these couple’s summer bucket list ideas you can tick off!