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Summer To-Do List Template

Twenty numbered lines for the things you actually want to do this summer \u2014 the beach day, the backyard camp-out, the library challenge \u2014 with a circle to fill beside each, a box for trips and dates, and a side list for the boring-but-necessary jobs before school starts. The printable PDF is the sunny hand-lettered version for the fridge; the Excel and Google Sheets versions count what is done and, if you type the first day of school, tell you how many days of summer are left.

Three formats

The summer list, three ways.

Excel — days of summer left

Twenty numbered rows with a ✓ dropdown, a done count, the trips box, and a countdown from today to the school-starts date.
Summer to-do list in sky blue and amber with a hand-lettered title, twenty numbered circle-check lines, a trips box, and a before-school-starts list
PDF

Printable PDF

The fridge poster in amber and sky blue: twenty circle-check lines, the trips box, the before-school list.
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Word (.docx)

The list as a Word table — let the kids type their twenty and print it big.
Worth knowing

Twenty on purpose.

A summer list with eight things gets finished by July and forgotten; a list with fifty is a chore. Twenty is enough that there is always something to pick on a slow Tuesday and few enough that most of them happen. Mix free things with the big trip so the list is not a spending plan.

Keep the finished page. A stack of summer lists from past years is one of the better family records there is.

Rainy-day printables
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Bingo, puzzles, and games for the slow days.
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The kids' daily list
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Big boxes, stars, and a reward line.
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The other holiday list
Christmas To-Do List
Gifts bought and wrapped, cards, food, decorating.
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Frequently asked questions

Is this a summer bucket list?
Yes, by another name — the numbered twenty is the bucket list, the circles are for filling in as they happen. The two side boxes are what most bucket lists leave out: the fixed dates (camp, the lake week) that the fun has to fit around, and the before-school jobs that otherwise land in the last three days.
How does the days-of-summer counter work?
Type the first day of school in the School starts field and the Excel or Sheets version subtracts today's date, so the line reads 41 days of summer left and counts down each time you open it. Once school starts it says so. It is a small thing; kids check it constantly.
Who fills it in?
Everyone, ideally in the first week of break: each person names a few things, the parent adds the trips, and the list goes on the fridge. Twenty is deliberately more than a summer holds, so that ticking twelve feels like a win rather than a failure to finish.
What goes in the before-school-starts list?
The tasks with a deadline the calendar sets for you: supplies, shoes, the physical, the summer reading, forms. Writing them on the same page as the fun list means they get done in the second-to-last week instead of the last.
Updated through September 2026