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50 Backyard Activities For Family Fun All Summer Long

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Want to enrich your family culture, enjoy the delights of nature, and engage your minds and bodies? Have a blast with these 50 backyard activities for family fun all summer long!

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Summer is great for so many things – family vacations, backyard barbecues, flourishing gardens… And I love it all! It’s also the perfect time for drawing closer as a family. And one of the best ways to do that – while also getting away from the screens, moving our bodies, and enjoying the beautiful outdoors – is to gather in the backyard and have some family fun. Need some ideas? Check out this mega list of fabulously fun backyard activities!




50 Backyard Activities for Family Fun

Want to enrich your family culture, enjoy the delights of nature, and engage your minds and bodies? Have a blast with these 50 backyard activities for family fun all summer long!

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  1. Have a picnic — Follow these tips for the best family picnics!
  2. Try one of these super fun water activities
  3. Play a lawn game such as lawn bowling, croquet, ladder toss, corn hole, ring toss, lawn darts, bocce ball, Slammo (spike ball), Yardzee, lawn Jenga, or lawn Connect Four
  4. Conduct an outdoor science experiment — We LOVE our DK Smithsonian Maker Lab: Outdoors book!
  5. Play tag
  6. Read outside
  7. Have an outdoor tea party
  8. Go on a nature scavenger hunt — You can adapt this one for summer!
  9. Stargaze — Here’s a great beginner’s telescope!
  10. Make an obstacle course
  11. Have a race – Foot, potato sack, pillowcase, etc.
  12. Play hide-and-seek
  13. Make a nature craft 
  14. Draw/paint pictures
  15. Camp out in the backyard
  16. Watch the clouds
  17. Throw a frisbee — We love these Activ Flyers
  18. Make sidewalk chalk art
  19. Play with bubbles
  20. Go birdwatching — We have these binoculars for the kids, and they’ve held up well!
  21. Collect bugs
  22. Plant a backyard garden
  23. Make a fort
  24. Roast marshmallows or make s’mores
  25. Take pictures
  26. Paint rocks — These paint pens make it easy!
  27. Paint with items from nature: leaves, twigs, flowers, pinecones, rocks, grasses, etc.
  28. Write/tell stories
  29. Make flower jewelry
  30. Set up a zipline — Did you know there are backyard zipline kits??
  31. Have a backyard BBQ — Be sure to include some of these delicious barbecue side dishes!
  32. Play catch — With a good old fashioned baseball and glove, a toss and catch set, or a pop and catch game
  33. Work on ball skills
  34. Watch a movie with an outdoor movie projector
  35. Make mud “pies”
  36. Have a NERF gun battle
  37. Play with outdoor blocks
  38. Set up a sandbox — I love these with the covers and foldable bench seats!
  39. Play water pong
  40. Wash the cars or bikes
  41. Fly a kite (or a drone)
  42. Cook over a campfire
  43. Build a treehouse
  44. Play one of these pool noodle games 
  45. Make a DIY climbing wall
  46. Host an outdoor music concert
  47. Fly paper airplanes
  48. Relax in a hammock, hammock chair, or swing
  49. Play card games
  50. Enjoy meaningful family conversation 


The possibilities for backyard activities are limitless! There are so many fun options, and basically anything you do inside can be brought outdoors. Get the kids (and adults!) off screens and devices, gather in the backyard, and have a blast together as a family this summer.

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