Does your bucket list look like a pair of thick roll corduroy pants held up by suspenders and you’re just looking for some type of life support to shock you back to reality? If so, you’re in the right place. Your bucket list of crazy ideas needs to grow a little in the thrill-seeking neighborhood and this list of 201 bucket list Crazy ideas will be just what you need.
However, you take the flip-side of this story and maybe you’ve already done every crazy thing you can think of, now you’re just itching for the next thrill. You’re the one that wants to have stories for days to tell at every party you go to. I mean… YOLO, amiright?
As a dad you may think that your time for checking off that bucket list is long gone. Or maybe your bucket list of crazy ideas looks a little different, but keep in mind we were all young once, and there might be things that you want your kids to do before they settle it. There is nothing wrong with being a dad, but priorities shift once you create humans. So, this list might help you to rekindle that adventurous spirit in yourself or foster that experience seeking drive in your children. Or maybe, you will find a few things to do with your kids.
Before scrolling down, I’m going to tell you how this bucket list is laid out. Before you jump ahead, I want you to know that this list does not have repeats. You very well could find something on the teenage list you’ve never considered, or done, that you want to add to your list.
So here is the layout. We are starting with the young’uns and moving through the lifecycle. Starting will be the 41 bucket list ideas for TEENAGERS. Moving on we will have the 52 bucket list ideas for COLLEGE STUDENTS and from there, 34 bucket list ideas for SUMMER. Assuming you get married after college I’ve included the 36 crazy bucket list ideas for COUPLES and from there we will end on the 38 EXTREME and DANGEROUS bucket list ideas for a total of 201 crazy bucket list ideas.
Let’s start this off at the beginning, for the young folk. Here goes our bucket list crazy ideas.
41 BUcket List ideas teenagers
This list isn’t going to include the tame things that you should learn how to do in order to be a functioning adult, like know how to pay bills, do laundry, negotiate, hold an engaging conversation, present yourself professionally, interview for a job and so forth. While all of those are important, right now you’re focusing on gaining… experience.
So, let’s do it!
- Start a YouTube page and get 1,000 subscribers
- Learn how to build your own shelter and camp in it overnight
- Go hunting
- Make your own ice cream
- Milk a cow
- Race on a BMX track
- Visit a skate park
- Pick an extreme sports and see how good you are
- Snowboarding, vert ramp roller skating, ski jumping, etc.
- Do a triathlon
- Get a original song on Spotify
- Make $10,000 selling NFT’s
- Go to a music festival
- Create a haunted house for Halloween
- Read 24 books in a year (2 a month)
- Get your art in a gallery
- Climb to the highest point in your state and watch the sunrise/sunset
- Ask the best looking in your high school on a date
- Go ziplining
- Place music on a street corner for money during an art walk
- Dye your hair
- Have a 24 hour movie marathon with your friends
- Host a cooking competition with your friends
- Learn how to sing
- Learn how to roller skate dance
- Host a giant water balloon battle in a downtown city park
- Take a road trip with family
- Once you can drive take a road trip with your friends
- Explore your city only using public transportation
- Hold a t-shirt dyeing competition with your friends
- Go on a 50 mile long bike ride
- Learn how to do 4 magic tricks
- Go geocaching
- Make a giant slip ’n slide in your backyard
- Run a half-marathon
- Learn to braid hair (Boys and girls)
- Attend a Renaissance festival
- Master solving a Rubik’s cube
- Start a blog about something interesting to you
- Make jewelry/art and set up an online shop
- Host a karaoke/lip sync battle
54 ideas for college students
While you’re in college there are certain things that you feel like are a rite of passage. I’m not just talking about getting drunk and going to parties, no, there’s much more. As a dad you don’t just want your kid to go waste their time and money, you want them to learn and get experience. Maybe you’ll want to share this with them, here are the 54 crazy bucket list ideas for college students!
- FIRST, figure out what crazy things your college offers to students and do them!
- Learn how to really dance (Swing, salsa, waltz, etc.)
- Visit the cadaver labs
- Go to the astronomy nights
- Experience high adventure trips
- Study abroad
- Take trips to state parks
- Go tent and RV camping
- Run a 5k
- Attend sporting events
- Actual battleship in the college pool
- Join an intramural sports team for a sport you’ve never play
- Tour the city like a local
- Interview an old person
- Shadow jobs you’ll never want
- Wear a snake like a necklace
- Take a road trip to the closest beach and swim with (Stingrays, dolphins, manatees, sharks)
- Ride on a dog sled
- Go out with the local Police for a ride along
- Ride a bucking bronco
- Kiss a random stranger
- Write a mysterious love note on the bathroom dorm mirror
- Grow out your hair to donate
- Sponsor a child in a developing country
- Sign up to be an organ donor
- Sign up to be a bone marrow donor
- Go to an acupuncturist
- Try wearing crazy colored contacts
- Get your palm read
- Wear a lava-lava, sarong, or kilt around campus
- Have a professional photo shoot
- Go to a fashion show
- Make your own perfume
- Make your own shoes
- Start a business
- Sell something on the internet
- Set up an emergency fund
- Sign up to be a nude model for an art class
- Invent something useful… or not
- Be in a TV show
- Perform on stage with a band
- Be featured on the cover of a magazine
- Go to a ball/masquerade
- Crash a party you’re not invited to
- Get your name on the big screen in the credits
- Participate in an open-mic night
- Learn how to do a real Hula dance
- Learn how to belly dance
- Find a Guinness Book of World Record that you want to set
- Watch the Space Shuttle launch
- Get hypnotized
- Attend a pow wow
- Shave your head
- Own an original piece of artwork from an art student at your school
32 Wild bucket list ideas for summer
Don’t just take, or let your kids take, a ho-hum, run of the mill summer break of nothing. There is so much to do out there in the wide world of adventure. So check this list against what is available near you, get your kids out of the house and into these experiences.
- Learn how to water ski
- Learn how to sail a boat
- Drive a jet ski
- Take a ride on a motorcycle
- Drive a race car on a track
- Catch a flight in a private jet
- Go for a ride in a submarine
- Jump on a cable car
- Ride a tube down a river
- Relax while riding in a train
- Drive an ATV or side-by-side
- Ride on the top of a double-decker bus
- Learn how to drive a zamboni at an ice rink
- Be in a TV show
- Perform on stage with a band
- Ride on a camel
- Be featured on the cover of a magazine
- Go to a ball/masquerade
- Crash a party you’re not invited to
- Learn how to drive a tractor
- Get your name on the big screen in the credits
- Participate in an open-mic night
- Learn how to do a real Hula dance
- Learn how to belly dance
- Find a Guinness Book of World Record that you want to set
- Watch the Space Shuttle launch
- Get hypnotized
- Attend a pow wow
- Ride in a gondola
- Attend a Jazz festival
- Walk on a nude beach
- Complete an Ironman triathlon
36 ideas for COUPLES
Now, dad, here we are. With you and your partner it is important to stay alive. Before you get too old and your bones start making their own ringtones when you wake up, consider some of the more extreme behaviors, you can thank me for this expansive list of date ideas later. Here are 36 crazy bucket list ideas for couples!
- Rope swing into water
- Go out in a hot air balloon
- Kiss beneath a waterfall
- Go for a romantic horse & carriage ride
- Name your own star
- See the Great Barrier Reef
- Stay overnight in an underwater hotel
- Watch the sunrise & sunset in one day
- Horseback ride naked on a beach
- Plan a night with candles and a bed covered in rose petals
- Visit each others home from when they were kids
- Make a piece of clothing you can wear… and do
- Make your own family crest
- Create your own stained glass art work
- Make a your own custom scented candle
- Make a piece of jewelry from random stuff found at a thrift store
- Blow glass on a date
- Shadow a blacksmith
- Learn how to knit yourself socks
- Make your own book (paper and all)
- Spin clay on a potter’s wheel
- Redo old furniture
- Make your own soap
- Stomp grapes in a vineyard
- Then go wine tasting
- Experience a cranberry farm
- Invite friends over and surprise them with a food fight
- Make your own cheese
- Learn how to get honey straight from a beehive
- Boil a live lobster
- Shuck your own oysters
- Go mushroom hunting
- Go hunting for truffles
- Create your own ice art work
- Try caviar
- Make someone’s night by leaving your server a 100% tip
38 Extreme and Dangerous bucket list ideas
If those just weren’t enough to get all of the blood pumping in your body, here is the list of 38 extreme and dangerous bucket list ideas. We cannot be held responsible for participation in these activities, conversations that may be had in order to get spousal approval, or liable for any disagreements that occur. Without further adieu, 38 extreme and dangerous bucket list ideas
- I’m going to start with learn CPR and basic life saving skills from the Red Cross or American Heart Association
- Learn how to jump start your car
- Go indoor skydiving
- Go spelunking (caving)
- Ride on a luge
- Go rock crawling
- Rappel off of a mountain
- Have fish suck on your toes
- Walk on a bed of glass or hot coals
- Lay on a bed of nails
- Learn how to eat fire
- Walk on hot coals
- Learn how to kitesurf
- Go 4-wheeling
- Go rock climbing outside
- Ride in a propeller plane
- Take a helicopter ride
- Go bungee jumping
- Find people to base jump with
- Go solo skydiving (after you’ve become certified of course)
- Parasail over the ocean
- Whitewater raft/kayak/canoe
- Become a licensed scuba divers
- Race ATVs at some sand dunes
- Snowboard in a half-pipe
- Go cliff jumping
- Ride in a stunt plane
- Walk on a glacier
- Run with the bulls
- Sleep on the side of a mountain
- Wrestle a crocodile
- Shadow a Hollywood stuntman
- Herd cattle on ATV or horseback
- Chase a tornado
- Look inside the mouth of a volcano
- Start a fire without matches
- Participate in a rodeo
- Join the Nitro Circus
There you have it! 201 bucket list crazy ideas to get your brain juices flowing. We left out the scandalous or illegal bucket list ideas because, well, we are a family site. And you, dad, should be a good example. May you and your posterity have a life well-lived, enjoyed, and explored. And may your stories be never ending!
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