Family Bucket List Ideas: 2023 Edition
Have you ever dreamed of creating a family bucket list, but didn’t know where to start or what to include? I would love to help you make your list a reality, so I am sharing family bucket list ideas from our very own list!
Our approach to the family bucket list might be a little different from what you have seen before. Every year on New Year’s Eve we take some time to sit down together and write out our family bucket list ideas for the coming year. We come up with 12 ideas that we want to try to accomplish in 12 months. We don’t always cross off every single item on our lists by the end of the year, but we have fun trying! Whatever doesn’t get crossed off can be added to the next year’s list, or not…it’s up to you!
Feel free to use any of our ideas that you like, toss the ones that you don’t, and add in new things to make your list your very own. Most importantly, have fun!
I will be updating this post as we check completed items off our list, so be sure to check back often and see how we did!
Family Bucket List Ideas
- Visit Charlotte, North Carolina
- Ring the doorbell at the Dude Perfect office in Frisco, Texas
- Volunteer as a family
- Hand out gift cards to strangers during the holidays
- Dress up and go eat at a fancy restaurant
- Get smoothies at Mamaka Bowls
- Treat Yo Self Day (1 per person)
- Watch all the Spider Man movies in order
- Stranger Things: The Experience (currently in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and London)
- Pottery Painting
- Murder Mystery Dinner
- Family Thrifting Day (1 item per person)
Now that you have read our list, what do you think? Did you see anything that you want to add to your own family bucket list for 2023? Leave me a comment and let me know, I love hearing from you!
Need more bucket list ideas? Head here to read my own personal bucket list, which includes my top 40 bucket list ideas for travel and life.
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Amanda
Tracy, I couldn’t love this idea or bucket list more. I love that you sit down during NYE to come up with a bucket list as a family. I especially love the ‘handing out gift cards to strangers during the holidays’ one. How wonderful! My hubby and I attended a Murder Mystery Dinner on New Year’s Eve a few years ago and it was SUCH a fun experience. I’d love to do it again sometime!
Tracy Green
AmandaThank you! This tradition is a fun and special one that we look forward to every year!