As a teenager, you simply cannot imagine just how fortunate you are to have all that darn energy, partnered with an adventurous spirit. Put all that enthusiasm to good use by participating in the absolute funnest things for teens to do. Believe me, soon enough you will be an adult with immense responsibilities, but that will come later.
Today, it is all about fun.
So bring out that wonderful youthful spirit, strap on your sense of adventure and start ticking off as many activities on this teen bucket list as you can (heck, you might even check a few things off twice).
Teen Bucket List: Fun Things For Teenagers to Do
1. ✦ Bake a Cake
2. ✦ Eat at In & Out
3. ✦ Visit a Nearby City That You Have Never Been To
Paris, Moscow, Madrid and London are all wonderful bucket list destinations that we dream of going to one day. In the meantime, make a list of local nearby cities you would like to visit and go for it.
We are talking about places in the next county over. Somewhere you can drive to and from within a single weekend.
Seek out what other teenagers do for fun there (what’s on their teen bucket list?); go out, enjoy those things; come back and plan your next trip. It is fun, affordable and you can bring all your BFFs with you.
4. ✧ Go to a Corn Maze
5. ✦ Get the High Score on a Video Game
This can take some serious dedication, but with the right mindset and equipment you’ll be able to give this one a good go. Some people like to invest in things like gaming chairs to help them game for longer by being more comfortable. You could also consider a headset to communicate with other players if you’re playing multiplayer, this could be a good way to meet new people also.
6. ✧ Drastically Change Your Hair
During your teenage years you have the license to go as wild and as crazy with your hairstyle as you want (provided your parents don’t ground you for it).
Have you always wondered what you would look like with the ‘triple-braid hairdo’? How about a ‘cool-knotted braid’? Guys, have you ever thought of getting a Mohawk and dyeing it blue? Why the heck not?
After all, if it turns out you don’t like it, it will grow back. Or for something less scary, try some colorful (and temporary) hair chalk instead.
Related: 40 Best Edgy Haircut Ideas to Upgrade Your Usual Styles
7. ✦ Walk Barefoot on the Beach
8. ✦ Redo Your Bedroom
9. ✧ Make a Scrapbook of Your Favorite School Memories
You will not believe how fast this time flies. Before you know it, you will all be off to college in different states and you will start making new memories. As time goes by, you will begin to forget all the good times you had in High School. Start making a scrapbook to document all those wonderful memories with your friends and schoolmates.
10. ✧ Have a Food Fight
11. ✦ Win a Competition
12. ✦ Be a Tourist in Your Own City
Can you confidently say that you know your city in and out? If Frommer’s was to contract you to write a guide to your city, would you do it justice? Take the time to visit more than just your usual hangout places. There is more to life than hanging out at the bowling alley and the mall.
Be a tourist in your own city, go someplace new and you may be surprised by just how wonderful that old town can be.
13. ✦ Go on a Shopping Spree
14. ✦ Go Roller Skating
15. ✦ Go 24 Hours without Internet, Radio or Television
Now, I know, this is a tall order. We use the internet for everything nowadays. But think about it. When was the last time you went for two hours without your phone? Try going 24 hours without internet, radio or TV. Go camping; sit and read a good book; talk to your friends and family or use the time to complete some of the ideas on this teen bucket list.
Soon enough you will wish you had these quiet and peaceful moments more often.
16. ✧ Host a DIY Craft Night
17. ✧ Do a Flip on a Trampoline
18. ✧ Handwrite a Letter to Your Best Friend
I know, right? Why would you want to handwrite a letter while you can simply Snapchat them or send them a DM? The thing about writing letters is that it is more personal plus you have more than just 140 characters to work with while crafting the message.
Use the opportunity to tell your close friend how much their friendship means to you. You could also use it as an opportunity to bond with your parents or grandparents. Ask them to show you how to properly address a handwritten letter (an art that is quickly getting forgotten). It is a chance for you to learn how to express yourself in full sentences, without emojis and texting abbreviations (OMG!). Plus, it will give you a good head start on how to draft those all-important college application essays.
Related: 10 Reasons You Should Write More Handwritten Letters
19. ✧ Have an All Day Movie Marathon with Your Best Friends
20. ✦ Go on a Blind Date
21. ✧ Make a Collage of all Your Dreams & Goals
As a teenager, your mind is not yet bound by the responsibilities of adulthood. Thankfully, during these golden ages, you can dream freely with no limits to what it is you can achieve. That is why it is best to make a bucket list of all your dreams & goals. And what funner way to do it than with a creative collage?
This will be a list that shows what you truly want. This list will come straight from your heart and in the later years, it will remind you of all the wonderful dreams and goals you had when you were young. The good thing is that as you get older, you will have the money and freedom to actually achieve some, if not all, of the things on that list. So go wild with your dreams; the older you will pick up the tab.
22. ✦ Watch a Classic Movie
23. ✦ Tie-Dye a Shirt
24. ✧ Run a Themed 5k
Themed 5k marathons are a wonderful way to not only bring the community together for a common course, but to also show off your extreme levels of fitness and fun loving nature. Make sure the theme is something fun, like a mud run (check Active’s 5k Race Finder for ideas). It’d be a bonus if running the 5k was to support a local organization.
Related: How to Train, Run & Finish Your First 5k Race
25. ✦ Have an Outdoor Picnic
26. ✦ Play Truth or Dare
27. ✦ Try a New Food
Have you ever tried raw oysters, escargot or frog’s legs? Maybe you have never had something as simple as sushi. Think of all the things you have yet to taste (for some fun ideas go to an Asian market!), then go out and try something new. You never know, you may stumble upon some delectable delicacies that you may never have heard of had you not been adventurous with your food.
Related: The Food List Challenge’s 100 Foods to Try Before You Die
28. ✧ Do a Fun Photo Shoot With Your Friends
29. ✦ Go to a Museum
30. ✦ Create a YouTube Video
We are all gifted with unique natural skills like dancing, singing, drawing, acting and so on. To showcase your skills or creativity and to get a chance to see just how many people find that impressive, why not create a YouTube video? Just create your own video showcasing your natural flair and upload it. It’s a brilliant way to tap into your creative side and you just might make money out of it.
Related: How to Create Your First YouTube Video
31. ✦ Do One Thing You Are Afraid Of
32. ✦ Go to a Carnival
33. ✧ Participate in a Flash Mob
Flash mobs are fun, right? I mean, not only are they a creative way to send a message across, but they are also a wonderful way for you to find and connect with like-minded individuals who love to dance and entertain. Who knows, you might even makes some new friends or get discovered for you chance to be rich and famous. Plus…THEY ARE SOOOOOO MUCH FUN!
Related: 10 Best Flash Mobs
34. ✦ Write a Love Letter to Yourself. Open in 10 Years
35. ✦ Make an Origami Animal
Origami is a big part of the Japanese culture and it truly is fascinating how little tiny pieces of paper can be crafted into beautiful pieces of artwork. The crane is one of the most popular shapes and you can fairly easily learn how to make one. There are countless videos and instructions online and below are two that worked for me.
It’s perfectly okay to use a simple piece of white paper, but you can also buy traditional Colorful Japanese Origami Washi Paper online.
36. ✦ Take a Road Trip
Pick a spot on the map, get in your car and just drive. There are very few activities in this world that are as fun-filled and as exhilarating as going on a road trip either solo or with your best friends.
Make a list of all the things you would like to do along the way and let the other chips fall where they may. Just go with it and have fun. The open road calls to all of us.
37. ✦ Learn to Dance
38. ✦ Make Homemade Cookies
39. ✦ Sleep Under the Stars
If you are lucky enough to travel the world with your parents, then try to sleep under the stars in the Northern Hemisphere. The Northern Lights are a spectacle that you will never forget. I can guarantee you that. But if Sweden is too far, then maybe you can make a good go of it right in your backyard? On those warm summer evenings, get a bunch of your friends and just camp outdoors sleeping under the stars. The freedom you get from this is indescribable.
40. ✦ Kiss Your Crush
41. ✧ Learn a Foreign Language
42. ✦ Learn to Play a Song on an Instrument
Very secretly join a music learning class and learn playing guitar, piano, violin or any instrument that you feel comfortable with and surprise your friends with your new gained talent. Teenage are the years of trying new things and I am sure you will rock any party with this unexpected talent.
This harmonica and lesson guide will have you playing When the Saints Go Marching In in no time at all.
43. ✦ Get a Job
44. ✦ Vote
45. ✦ Go to the Movies Alone
Most teenagers would prefer going to the movies with a gang of friends, but to complete this teen bucket list you need to step out of your comfort zone. Being able to do things on your own is empowering, plus, you won’t have to share the popcorn!
After you are feeling confident on your own, why not try hitting up a restaurant solo to? Here’s help: Eating Out Alone: Tips for Dining Solo at a Restaurant
46. ✧ Study Abroad
47. ✦ Write a Journal
48. ✦ Learn to Surf
49. ✦ Learn to Cook Your Favorite Meal
A more common thing for teens to do is to pop a frozen meal into the microwave. But, you will definitely impress your friends if you learn how to expertly cook your favorite meal.
It will take practice, discipline and a lot of patience. But once you learn how to do it, you may just find that cooking can be one of the activities that you are passionate about.
50. ✧ Go to the Prom
51. ✧ Go to the Midnight Showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show
52. ✧ Send a Message in a Bottle
53. ✦ Pull A Fun All Nighter
This probably isn’t an uncommon thing for teenagers to do. It probably shouldn’t even be on your teen bucket list because it is part of your daily life. But when was the last time you pulled a fun all-nighter? I’m not talking about last minute studies or the completion of overdue assignments. I’m talking about just sitting up and having fun with your friends.
Remember the sleepovers you used to have as a child and your parents would make you go to bed by 10.00PM? Well, now you can have one of those, only you can go till dawn. Gather a bunch of your friends, plan cool activities and stay up all night. Maybe you can do that on your road trip?
54. ✦ Go to a Killer Party
55. ✦ Start a Savings Account
56. ✦ Go Ice Skating
57. ✦ See Your Favorite Band in Concert
Yet another fun thing to do on your teen bucket list: seeing your favorite band in concert. In fact, you can achieve three of your bucket list items in this one go:
- Pick a date when your favorite band is playing in a nearby city
- Gather your best friends and go on a road trip to that city
- See your favorite band in concert while exploring a neighboring city
Imagine how much fun that would be!
58. ✧ Camp in the Backyard
59. ✦ Prank Call a Friend
60. ✦ Ride in a Limo
61. ✧ Take One Picture Every Day For the Rest of the School Year & Make a Video
Promise to take a picture every day for the rest of the school year and make a video out of it.This will be your private ‘Year Book’. If you are anything like me, you are likely not to remember the fun things you did in the last week, much less at the beginning of a school year.
It is a creative way to scrapbook your school memories.
62. ✦ Binge Watch a Netflix Series
63. ✦ Have a Water Balloon Fight
64. ✦ Go Indoor Skydiving
For more information read: Indoor Skydive Experience: Weightlessness in a Wind Tunnel
65. ✦ Cook Dinner For Your Parents
In your quest to grow up, there is a good chance that you often forget your parents. After all, they represent the authoritarian force in your life that just doesn’t want you to do anything fun, right? What most teenagers don’t realize at the time is that their parents only ever want the best for them. They spend all their time working so that they can provide you with the kind of life you have.
Show them some appreciation every now and again by cooking them dinner. I promise you, this will go a long way in helping you master the art of cooking—plus you may get a raise in your allowance!
66. ✦ Go to a Drive-in Movie
67. ✦ Have a Spa Day
68. ✧ Go to a Music Festival
69. ✦ Learn to Use Chopsticks
Not very many adults know how to do this and even fewer teenagers can comfortably use chopsticks. Do you want to seem sophisticated and well-cultured, then learn how to use chopsticks.
It can even be a fun way to eat your favorite bowl of noodles, and you can impress your friends when you are all out for sushi.
70. ✦ Complete a 1,000-piece puzzle
71. ✧ Get Straight A’s for a Semester
72. ✧ Stand Under a Waterfall
73. ✦ Go Backpacking with a Friend
You haven’t lived until you’ve experienced wilderness and gone backpacking. Grab an adventurous friend or two and take on Mother Nature. You can do something as simple as visit the local park or the neighboring county. Or plan a few day trek, and check “sleep under the stars” off your teen bucket list at the same time.
74. ✦ Perform a Random Act of Kindness
75. ✦ Ride a Roller Coaster
76. ✧ Participate in a Mud Run
77. ✦ Read a Classic Novel…For Fun
I know, this doesn’t sound like the funnest thing for teens to do, but have you ever read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee? How about ‘Diary of a Nobody’ by George and Weedon Grossmith? The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien? Well, the movies are more entertaining but the novels are pretty sweet too and more detailed. How about “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain?
The point is, you learn more when you read these wonderful classics than you do gazing at your phone. Plus, they will give you some culture and conversation ideas when you get older.
You can download many classics to your Kindle for free. Find a ton of free classics on Amazon.
78. ✦ Read a Newspaper
79. ✦ Throw Someone a Surprise Party
80. ✧ Go to a bonfire
81. ✦ Volunteer
Volunteer your time and effort to make the world a better place. You don’t have to join ‘Greenpeace’, although that’s not such a bad idea, you can volunteer right in your own community.
Help the elderly, give blood, volunteer at the local soup kitchen or just make sure that your neighbor’s yard is well-kept. Give back to the society and you will be the better for it.
82. ✧ Write a Song
83. ✦ Cuddle by the Fire
84. ✧ Jump in a Pile of Leaves
85. ✦ Watch the Sunrise & Sunset
All the activities on this teen bucket list don’t matter unless you learn how to appreciate life. One of the best ways to fully marvel at the world in which we live is to just sit and stare at the sunrise and sunset every few days.
It truly is a sight to behold.
You are only young once, so make the most of it while you can. Fill the teenage years with fun activities, ambitious adventures and creating memories with friends. All that can happen by checking off your teen bucket list.
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I have done 20 of them
Good job!
I’m broke…
That is great!
57. ✦ See Your Favorite Band in Concert
Me; cries an emo tear for MCR
Ha! I hope you’ve seen them in concert!
Now you can actually see them, and I can too. I’m so happy
Omg yes
i have some good news for you
These replies are the greatest thing to read after their reunion.
Not me listening to famous last words right now!!!
i thought when they said “kiss your crush” they said “kiss your couch”
Me too!!
so did u kiss your couch XD
This is so fun thank you dear!
I wanted to go to BTS concert but they are far away
Thanks for all this
You are welcome 🙂
“See favorite band in concert”
Patd
One of my favourites
i have a list of 13 things i wanna do before the year is over! i better get to it
Yes! You better hurry!
You made great jobe writing this Teen Bucket List! Many advice very fresh and interesting! I think most importent advice is travel! Everyone must travel as much as he can! For example when I have started travel a lot it helped me at work by writer!
Some good tips. 9/10 will follow most of these. Watching some anime was my main plan but, I gotta live my life while I can.
This was a life changing article! I spent the past 3 years of my life trying to complete all of the items and I am proud to say that I have done just that! Thank you so much for creating this article for all of us teens <3
Congratulations on completing your list!
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Hey….
Thanks for such amazing stuffs…I’ll definietely gonna try these n let u know about my experiences soon….
Eat at in and out????
I cant even get close to my crush.
This was written by a boomer.
Nope. Not a boomer.
Ah, so an avocado toast eating millennial
Why not?
BAHHAHA
Fax
I really don’t think my crush knows I’m alive
i really wanna kiss my crush i have so many loveproblems love this bucket list love xxx Aaron who lives in Norway.
ooooooooh tell us ant ur love problems
ya spill the deets
Yessss
When I saw a pint go to your favourite bands concert me started crying for bts coz they never came to India
I’ve done all of them and I’m 15
That’s impressive!
This bucket list rocks but some are kinda hard like to kiss my crush I see him every day but I start to shake when he comes close to me.What should I do?
this has helped me so mucb!!!! in my life iv done so many things and i’m only 13 but iv done a lot it feels so good iv took trips iv been finsihing a lot of my goals i kissed my crush he ended up likeing me back. and iv been in such a good mood helped me a lot
This is great to hear! Keep up the good work 🙂
I’m not brave enough :0
Hey so um theese are all really cooland fun in all but i texted my friend and said ima get a job and shes like what and i said i am getting a job then she okay have fun then i said really she is just like ye have fun but theese r all good thanks for the ideas it hellped me improved alot
Happy that it helped!
HEYYYYYYY I READ ALL THESE COMMENTS BUT IM NOT GONNA DO ANYTHING ON THE LIST ALSO Y IS THERE GET A JOB???? And BTS fans I’m with u I love them (;´༎ຶٹ༎ຶ`)
I’m not even halfway through my teens and I’ve done 41 of these 🙂
You’re doing great! Keep it up!