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Summer Bucket List 2026!

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Time for a summer full of PBS KIDS and community adventures! Our WXXI Early Learning Team has created a special checklist of summer activities to bring even more fun to your family this summer. Have fun exploring your local community and using PBS KIDS to spark joy with your kids. Need more ideas? Follow us on Facebook or Instagram for regular updates of new activities

Unearth a Story! Visit your local public library and join in on summer learning fun.

This summer’s theme for summer reading is “Unearth a Story” – libraries across the Greater Rochester and Finger Lakes region will be spending time exploring dinosaurs, archeology, paleontology, fossils, gardening, history, and so much more! See the full calendars of summer reading activities, special programming, and events at our region’s local libraries: Rochester Public Libraries, Monroe County Library System, and OWWL Library System.

  • Find an OWWL Library location.
  • See upcoming OWWL library programs.
  • Find an MCLS Library location.
    See upcoming MCLS library programs.
  • Visit the Toy Library.

Download the PBS KIDS Summer Activity Booklet.

Use the printable PBS KIDS Summer Activity Booklet for even more PBS KIDS-themed adventure and exploring ideas. The resource includes offline activities from your favorite PBS KIDS friends – Wild Kratts, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Phoebe & Jay, Weather Hunters, and more! Download the booklet here.

Downloadable PBS KIDS Activity Book

Go Screen-Free for a Week!

Summer is the best time to create some screen-time balance! Use this “Screen Free Week” guide for activity ideas, crafts, and adventures that you can do with your kids off-screen. All of the ideas are PBS KIDS-inspired activities – from listening to a PBS KIDS podcast to visiting a local playground to going on a sign scavenger hunt like Phoebe & Jay! The best part of loving PBS KIDS is being able to play, explore, and learn with PBS KIDS anytime, anywhere! Download here.

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A grid of non-screen based PBS KIDS activities.

Use WXXI’s Summer Bucket List

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Find WXXI Out in the Community!

Our WXXI Early Learning Team likes to spend time in all of the places that you do! Their calendar is filled with community events, activities, and fun things happening in our region. We’ll be out and about in lots of places and spaces where you might want to be too. Check out the calendar of community events – hope to see you out there!

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WXXI’s PBS KIDS tent at Fall Fest 2025.

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