This is a partnered post with Take Me Fishing™.
The greatest thing about having a husband who is so adventurous means that our children always have something fun to do. Some weekends it’s hiking and camping outdoors, other weekends it’s at the beach and on a fishing trip. You’ll even find us on the lake in the mountains on my parents’ boat in the summer. Living in Southern California means there is literally always something to do outdoors.
This weekend, my daughter and my husband packed up their fishing poles and went to the beach. There’s always a pier and plenty of other fishermen nearby, and our eight-year-old loves people watching. There’s tons of activity on the pier – and there’s nothing quite like the feeling of your #FirstCatch of the year! And that’s what summer is all about—creating meaningful moments with children.
There are lots of ways to make the most of summer with your family. Here are some of my favorites:
5 Simple Activities to Do Outdoors with Your Kids
- Go Fishing – You can find out everything you need to know to get started at Take Me Fishing™. From choosing gear to buying a fishing license, this site is a great resource for beginners and pros alike.
- Find Water – There are so many fun things to do near water, whether it be a lake, a river, or even the ocean. You can see some of the top places across the country to cast a line at Take Me Fishing’s™ list of Best Family-Friendly Places to Fish and Boat.
- Go Hiking – You can find local trailheads crisscrossing all through the country. We even take our kids hiking. It’s a great way to explore outdoors.
- Go Camping – We love camping and honestly you don’t need a lot of gear to make it happen. In California, we can camp anywhere from the beaches to the mountains, and there’s so much you can do while camping. Some of our best family memories have been made while camping with our kiddos.
- Find a Local Park – One of our favorite things to do in the evenings is to take a walk. We have many local parks within walking distance so we walk and play when we get there. It’s a great way to wind down from a hot summer day.
Check out Take Me Fishing™ to plan a fishing and boating adventure for your family—and be sure to share it with me on social using #FirstCatch!
What are some fun and simple things you like to do outdoors with your family?
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Swimming and walking around our neighborhood park are our favorite family outdoor activities.
Our favorite activity is to walk to the local park and swing on the swings. So fun and easy to do!
We love spending time at the beach swimming, fishing and barbecuing!
We like to play with our animals!
We like to hike and camp.
going to different parks and playgrounds
Comments aren’t working on other pages. So I post here for the travel post. I think traveling is very rewarding for kids. We traveled a lot when I was growing up.
we like to ride our bikes or play baseball,
We love to ride bikes together and take the dogs for walks.
These are great suggestions–we love doing all of these things with our children!
One of our favorite activities, especially when the kids were younger, was flying kites.
Nature walks in the state forest behind out house where we see deer, turkeys, snakes, all kinds of birds and the occasional moose or bear.
I have an outdoor crew, they’ll do just about anything to stay outdoors … we do a lot of camping and while we’re camping we’ll hike, bike ride, swimming, fishing …you name it
We enjoy going to the park and take a picnic lunch.
There are woods behind the house and there are a lot of different kinds of wild berries that grow there. Walking through there & picking berries is always fun!
We ride our bikes
We like to go for a walk and play at the park
Playing at the park.
Go for walks.
We love to just go walking in the mountains finding some little waterfalls!
We love to play catch, walk the dog and ride our bikes.
We plan activities which usually includes a picnic lunch or snacks – anything from hikes to playing at the park or splashpads and the beach! YEAH!
We like to go on nature walks and camping.
We spend most of our time outdoors in the pool.
We like to go hiking in the woods around here.
we like to go to the park in the summertime! 🙂
we love hiking and the beach
I love hiking with my family.
The simplest outdoor activity we do as a family is run around with the dogs. We have a Great Dane and it’s an event! 😀
we go swimming and to baseball games
Going to the pool
We love to go hiking
Just playing catch or helping my boys with batting practice. I love it as much as they do.
We like to go for walks and play with bubbles outside.
When kids were growing up it was go swimming anto go fishing.
Swimming, Biking, BBQ’ing and fishing!
We love to hang out in the backyard and cook BBQ
We like to play ball outside.
We love gardening and playing basketball with the kiddos!
Head to the beach
We would take the boys to the park , Bar-B-Q and play some football and horse shoes !
We like to go camping in the mountains near our home.
We love taking hikes, going to parks, fishing and boating!
We like to go hiking here on our 200 acres.
We love going on bike rides together and having picnics.
I love to take my twins geocaching!
We like camping and walking the trails
Swimming, going to the park and for hikes!
We love camping and fishing.
No kids. Growing up we always were out fishing during the summer months.
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We love the beach
Fishing is the top activity, followed by hiking.
I love to take them to the lake for a swim.
we love walking over to the lake.
We like to take simple walks sometimes. Not really a “hike” so much as an easy walk with just a couple of water bottles and a small snack.
We love camping and fishing.
Picnic. You don’t even have to leave home for this one. Simply take whatever food you were planning to eat and lay down a picnic mat or blanket outside in the yard.
Great ideas for outdoor activities. We love being active outdoors with the kids and spend a ton of time camping with the kids.
We enjoy going camping even though we haven’t done it in a couple of years. We also have a couple of nice walking trails in the area.
Fishing is always fabulous. Great me time.
I cannot wait to go fishing again! It has been like maybe 21 years since I last went!
My husband is the fisherman in our family. We are lucky we can fish so easily here in Florida!
We’ve spent most of our summer outdoors. We love to go crabbing, fishing and spending the days at the beach.
We are always trying to explore as much as we can locally because we don’t like sticking around home all summer. One of our favorites is trying to find water to swim.
Any time there’s water involved, the kids have a great time. We love anything we can do outdoors.
These are great activities to do with kids. We love to go for hikes. We always look for treasure while we walk.
When my kids were growing up we went camping at Doheny Beach and Yosemite National Park every summer.
All of these are great ideas and most don’t cost you a dime! We have not been camping in so long!
What a fun time! It’s nice to be able to fish on nice days like this. It’s cool that you have a nice pier nearby! We have a few rivers but no beaches!
We love to do all of these! One of our favorite things to do is go fishing while we camp. It’s a lot of fun.
We are beach bums, so we are at the beach as much as possible. We love it.
We like to go hiking, geocaching, & playing in the sprinkler during the summer.
Aside from hiking, we like to hike on our 200 acre farm and have picnics. Liked on FB as Michelle Lee Hill
Fishing is our most loved. Also, we like taking a row boat out on the lake. Hiking and camping we also like.
Our local park system has a lot of activities for kids and families. It’s a good way to get outdoors and stay active.
We love to go hiking and exploring outside! We also love fishing 🙂 Liked on fb as Kim Henley