60 Free Summer Activities for Kids

Ever feel like everything costs money? There’s no reason to break the bank just because the kids are home for the summer.

Here are 60 FREE summertime activities you can do with the kids to keep you all busy and having fun.

But I’ve expanded my list to include OVER 200 FREE summer activities here.

1. 1. Go on a picnic
   2. Walk around your local farmer’s market
   3. Go for a lazy walk
   4. Play with bubbles
   5. Draw with sidewalk chalk
   6. Run through the sprinkler
   7. Visit local nature preserve
   8. Find figures in the clouds
   9. Play in the kiddie pool
   10. Find local free museum days
   11. Take a hike
   12. Make mud pies
   13. Water the plants
   14. Set up your tent and have a camp out
   15. Take a family bike ride
       
   16. Make s’mores
   17. Visit the local pool
   18. Watch a high school baseball game
   19. Wash/vacuum out the car
   20. Play restaurant. Have the kids “make” lunch
   21. Play in the rain/mud
   22. Go on a scavenger hunt
   23. Fly a kite
   24. Plant a garden (or anything)
   25. Pick flowers
       
   26. Eat dinner outside
   27. Go fishing
   28. Play in the sand
   29. Watch the sun set
   30. Swing. Get really high and jump out
   31. Lay in the grass
   32. Participate in story time at book store
   33. Catch fireflies (or butterflies)
   34. Read a chapter book aloud. Do 20 minutes a day
   35. Put on a skit
   36. Play I spy
   37. Try out geocaching
   38. Create a relay race
   39. Find figures in the clouds
   40. Swing in a hammock
   41. Make paper boats; sail them down a stream
   42. Build an outdoor fort
   43. Visit your library
   44. Check out the local parks, one by one
   45. Play tag
   46. Collect bugs
   47. Locate free art programs through regional museums
   48. Learn to throw a frisbee
   49. Watch birds
   50. Take in a free movie under the stars through local programs
   51. Host a neighborhood baseball game in your yard
   52. Create a backyard obstacle course
   53. Take pictures of outside nature
   54. Go bowling on free days (Kids Bowl Free and AMF Free Bowling)
   55. Create a board game night
   56. Find free tours at local food factories
   57. Dance
   58. Create art projects using “found” objects
   59. Rent a movie from your library
   60. Volunteer!