52 things you can do with your kids outdoors this summer

1. Go on a hike

2. Visit Hogle Zoo

3. Draw chalk pictures on the sidewalk

4. Walk around an old cemetery

5. Go swimming

6. Make a collection of leaf or bark rubbings and then learn the names of the trees

7. Have a cookout

8. Weed a garden; mow a lawn — if not yours, maybe that of an elderly neighbor

9. Go to This Is the Place Heritage Park

10. Fly a kite or have a paper airplane flying contest

11. Play "night games," such as Hide 'N' Seek, No Bears Are Out Tonight, Steal the Bacon

12. Visit Red Butte Garden

13. Go to a garden store and pick out some favorite flowers to plant

14. Visit Ogden's Eccles Dinosaur Park

15. Go bird-watching; record some bird songs

16. Run through the sprinklers

17. Go on a picnic

18. Sleep under the stars in your own backyard

19. Learn about different kinds of clouds

20. Go for a walk

21. Put on your own neighborhood 'round-the-block parade

22. Go camping

23. Look for tracks and trails of animals

24. Make a nature trail in your own backyard using stones and branches and identify flora and fauna that inhabit it

25. Attend a festival

26. Learn all about wildflowers. Or butterflies. Or mushrooms

27. Put on a backyard mini-Olympics, where everyone chooses a country and competes in various games

28. Visit the gardens or the farm at Thanksgiving Point

29. Go to the roof plaza at the Salt Lake Main Library; see the new beehive; walk down the winding wall

30. Have a neighborhood concert or talent show in your backyard

31. Visit a canyon