Mummy & Alyssa's Pre-School Bucket List

From experience of watching friends and their children and family babies, I know how much parents miss their children once they begin school. After the initial euphoria at having more "free-time" dies off we, as parents, can often be left with a painfully large gaping whole that our little ones used to fill and a lot of what ifs! Well, I am in no doubt that I will gain my own empty void when Alyssa starts school, but I am determined not to have many if any what ifs... so here is my wish list, my "bucket list" of things to do before Alyssa begins school...

1. Take our first plane ride

2. Teach her to swim

3. Make castles on the beach

4. Run from waves breaking on the shore

5. Eat ice cream cones together

6. Take a train ride

7. Take a boat ride

8. Have a foreign holiday together in both sun and snow

9. Build a snowman

10. Have a snowball fight

11. Drink hot chocolate in front of an open fire

12. Watch our first Disney movie

13. Watch every Disney movie

14. Teach Alyssa to sing songs

15. Sing together in the car

16. Go to butlins or haven for a holiday

17. Swish through fallen autumn leaves

18. Put on wellingtons and jump in puddles

19. Teach her to ride a bike

20. Have a dolly tea party

21. Celebrate each and every birthday

22. Go on a shopping trip

23. Have a picture taken in matching tutus

24. Pick wildflowers together

25. Bounce so high on a bouncy castle

26. Push her on a swing

27. Fall asleep together under a blanket

28. Go and see Father Christmas

29. Go searching for Fairies

30. Have an Easter Egg Hunt

31. Bake cakes

32. Hear the first time she says mummy

33. Dance together

34. Go to watch our first pantomime

35. Pick a new Christmas decoration together for the tree each year

36. French plait her hair

37. Go to a birthday party

38. Build a fort

39. Play make believe

40. Spin round and round in circles with our arms out

41. Hold hands when out walking

42. Go for tea and cake in the afternoon

43. Watch fireworks

44. Get dressed up and go trick or treating

45. Go to Disney (this one is quite a lot for me more than Alyssa!!)

46. Find out what she enjoys and allow her to do this e.g. ballet, karate

47. Watch Christmas lights being turned on

48. Lie outside and look at the stars

49. Measure her height every 3 months to watch her grow

50. Have a pillow fight

51. Go on a trampoline

52. Climb a tree

53. Roll down a grassy bank

54. Make mud pies

55. Make paper-mache animals and masks

56. Paint using our hands and feet

57. Make snow angels

58. Visit a farm and feed the animals

59. Ride a horse

60. Pick strawberries

61. Play pooh sticks

62. Make a kite

63. Plant some flowers and watch them grow

64. Create a mini assault course in the lounge and garden

65. Read bedtime stories

66. Go to the library

67. Build something with lego

68. Have picnic in the forest

69. Have a picnic on the lounge floor

70. Write and send a letter to Father Christmas

71. Make homemade pizza

72. Have a water fight

73. Blow bubbles and chase them

74. Make sock puppets

75. Draw a map and have a treasure hunt

76. Run in the rain

77. Play with skipping ropes

78. Write a story together... with pictures too!

79. Go bowling

80. Go to the cinema

81. Play "I Spy" together

82. Toast veggie marshmallows on a fire

83. Visit a theme park (like Peppa Pig World!!)

84. Take pictures every day

85. Play hula hooping

86. Make pasta jewellery

89. Do some Face painting

90. Make salt-dough ornaments

91. Go to the park

92. Shout loudly and hear our voices echo

93. Make musical instruments

94. Make our own superhero capes

95. Make memory boxes

96. Make a fairy house and garden

97. Play hide and seek

98. Make boats and try to sail them

99. Paint our nails

100. Make our own pom poms

101. Make a list of everything we still want to do together in the future

Some are silly things that all kids do, that I did, and are part of the tradition of growing up and some mean a lot. I think that even if Alyssa and I achieve half of these things by the time she goes to school, we'll be okay. What are your favourites and what do you hope to do before your little one flies the nest and joins the big wide world of primary school?