Swimming is something you can always do, in my opinion. You can do so much swimming; depending on how big the pool is you could do laps, which is motivation for exercise as well as improving your swimming. Another thing you could do is bring a hoop and play basket ball in the pool. Honestly my friends and I will sometimes do hand stands in the pool or see who can hold their breath underwater longer. Along the lines of doing laps you can do laps with your friends and see who is faster at swimming; another thing I do with my friends. You can close your eyes and play Marco-Polo.
Besides swimming there is a lot of sport activities. For example, Basketball at your local park, or even a school. Soccer is another good one, just grab a ball- a couple of friends- and head to an empty field and start playing soccer. Football is another one it's kind of like Soccer except with hands but still; friends and a ball. Tennis is another fun activity you can play, my school hosted a after-graduation party and it was at the College close to the school. In the College there is a gym type thing with a bunch of activities to do, if where you live has a gym or anything like that I advice investing in a membership there because it is fun! Anyways, (off topic sorry) my friends and I played RacketBall and it was the best thing! We didn't exactly know how to play, but who cares the point is that you are with your friends and even though you may have a couple bruises in the morning by "accidentally" hitting them it's okay because those will be the stories you tell your children! The stories you tell them so that they can have stories to tell their children. Any outdoor sport is fun during the summer, if you are on a low-budget or no budget then just use a ball you have at home and you can always find a park, or school that's close to you, and use that to your benefit.
Another way you can have fun outside is by having a sleepover, one of two ways. You can act like you are in middle school again and give each other make overs and be a kid again. Or someone could bring a tent and camp out in one of you, or your friends, backyard and act like you're camping. You could make s'mores, tell old "ghost" or scary stories, sing campfire songs, or look up and admire the stars.
If you like skating then you could always grab your skates and go skating around a park, your neighborhood, or go to a skating arena.
Also bowling is a good choice, bowling alley's are always fun. You and your friends could all go to the bowling alley and play in teams against each other.
If you're are reading this and thinking "this girl is crazy! I do not do any outdoor activities whats-so-ever then here are some indoor activities you can do that don't even have to be inside. (That's the good thing about Indoor activities; is that it could be hot or cold and it has no effect on you personally because you're indoors, I don't know about you but I think that's kind of AWESOME!)
Indoor activities consist of a lot of things, some things you just have to use your imagination. You can always do DIY projects; there is so many that this post would go on and on and on... but here are a couple that you can always do that are on top of my mind. You can paint mason jars (which a lot of people have started to do), I painted mason jars and bought chalk board tags stickers, if that makes sense? It's little stickers that are chalk board, and you can put "make up", "Savings", "Road Trip money" "Pens and pencils" "make up brushes" and endless more. If you have an abundance of pictures (like me because of English) then you can do a bunch of different shapes on your walls. My walls are kind of "shiny" I guess they are not soft and easy for things to be placed- tape- so Mounting Putting is always a good thing to have if your walls are like mine! You can make a heart out of the pictures, or if you have extra christmas lights or you want to go out and buy christmas lights (even if it's not christmas time they usually sell "garden" lights: it's the exact same thing as christmas lights just not as much so instead of buying one box with 100 or more lights you buy one with about 80 but you still have christmas lights and there are variety of different types.) Then you can use clothes pins and hang pictures up like that. Or if you happen to have a decent size picture frame you can use string, twine, anything really and tape it to each side of the frame in a row going down and hang pictures that way. You can go get letters from any craft store and can paint them any color you would like and hang them on your walls. Another idea along those lines are if you have a bunch of magazines look through them and choose a bunch of pages that you absolutely love the background of, then find a favorite quote, cut the letters out by tracing it on your computer, printing and tracing or free handing it. Then use some mounting putty and your room will be decorated!
Okay enough DIY's lets get into activities. A good way to entertain yourself is by watching your favorite movie if it happens to be a series you can use the whole day by watching ever single movie in that series. You and your friends could also grab a bunch of board games and one person could chose which one to play and the winner can chose the next one. That could go on until you guys get bored and then switch to another cool activity to do.
Also something fun is painting, getting some canvases and painting some pictures. It would be a good keep-sake to remember the fun day you and your friends had.
I hope that this post gave you some fun ideas to do with your friends, and make your summer this year FANTASTIC! You don't really even have to do anything with your friends besides be there with your friends. Take it from me, my friends and I will plan something out and try to do it but once we are all together the plan changes. It's not bad because the whole point is all the memories you will make, and keep to tell others about.
"The tans will fade but the memories will last forever...." -Unknown
