Create your ultimate summer evenings at Roaring Nights at Brookfield Zoo! Get ready to turn up the volume for unforgettable nights of live music, dancing, and good vibes. Grab your tickets, bring your crew, and enjoy this one-of-a-kind concert series while supporting animal care and conservation!

Enjoy different genres of music from reggae to country to Beatles tribute bands. Bring blankets/lawn chairs, and food. You can even reserve a pontoon for prime viewing!

This free event, which is hosted in several different locations in Naperville, features a variety of engaging performances that will delight kids and adults alike!

Watch the sunset and unwind with live music on the Esplanade. Bring your own chairs, because the Garden has a limited supply. Picnicking is welcome during evening concerts, or stop by one of their dining locations to grab a bite and some drinks. 

Complete with a blanket and basket, one of my favorite family bucket list ideas is a picnic in the park (or even the backyard)! Packing the basket with picnic food is such an exciting activity for kids.

Keep an eye out for the prefect breezy day and go fly a kite for your summer bucket list!

Every state in the U.S. has reserved land for the public to enjoy and for nature to thrive untouched. See which ones are near you and add a day of hiking, boating, canoeing, biking, or bird watching to your family summer bucket list!

Whether it's a planned outdoor activity on a hot day or you're just watering your lawn anyway, invite your kids to come outside and run through the sprinklers!

An easy DIY sundial clock can be a "full day" outdoor activity and science experiment for kids! Learn to tell time using the sun and a few common household objects.

This easy chemical reaction science experiment uses simple ingredients found at home: vinegar, baking soda, and a surgical glove wrapped around a drinking glass. As the baking soda reacts to the vinegar, the bubbles rise and fully inflate the glove.

This easy at home science experiment uses shortening and ice water to help kids see how animals survive cold winters with fat reserves!

Pennies can be used in a science lesson for kids in metals and chemical reactions. Pennies are made of a copper finish that becomes tarnished over time. Common household acids (like vinegar with salt) can effectively transform dull pennies back to bright and shiny coins! This experiment shares a few safe techniques.

Using a blindfold, kids can challenge their senses (and each other) to a smell test using common household spices and safe pantry ingredients (cinnamon, cocoa powder, oranges, etc.). Be sure to practice safe techniques, including avoiding inhalation. Hold the testers slightly away from your face and use your hands to waft the smell towards your nose.

When you add raisins to a glass of carbonated soda, they'll initially sink but will begin to rise and fall as carbon dioxide bubbles make them buoyant and then pop at the surface.