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.
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- Go on a picnic
- Walk around your local farmer’s market
- Go for a lazy walk
- Play with bubbles
- Draw with sidewalk chalk
- Run through the sprinkler
- Visit local nature preserve
- Find figures in the clouds
- Play in the kiddie pool
- Find local free museum days
- Take a hike
- Make mud pies
- Water the plants
- Set up your tent and have a camp out
- Take a family bike ride
- Make s’mores
- Visit the local pool
- Watch a high school baseball game
- Wash/vacuum out the car
- Play restaurant. Have the kids “make” lunch
- Play in the rain/mud
- Go on a scavenger hunt
- Fly a kite
- Plant a garden (or anything)
- Pick flowers
- Eat dinner outside
- Go fishing
- Play in the sand
- Watch the sun set
- Swing. Get really high and jump out
- Lay in the grass
- Participate in story time at book store
- Catch fireflies (or butterflies)
- Read a chapter book aloud. Do 20 minutes a day
- Put on a skit
- Play I spy
- Try out geocaching
- Create a relay race
- Find figures in the clouds
- Swing in a hammock
- Make paper boats; sail them down a stream
- Build an outdoor fort
- Visit your library
- Check out the local parks, one by one
- Play tag
- Collect bugs
- Locate free art programs through regional museums
- Learn to throw a frisbee
- Watch birds
- Take in a free movie under the stars through local programs
- Host a neighborhood baseball game in your yard
- Create a backyard obstacle course
- Take pictures of outside nature
- Go bowling on free days (Kids Bowl Free and AMF Free Bowling)
- Create a board game night
- Find free tours at local food factories
- Dance
- Create art projects using “found” objects
- Rent a movie from your library
- Volunteer!
Hey there thanks for those tips, you listed a lot that I couldn’t think of. Thanks again!
And I keep thinking of more. Next summer I may just hit 100 free ideas!
Thats a really good list! Bike rides are our favorite 🙂
Joining in from the blog hop!
-Reshama
http://www.stackingbooks.com
Glad to join your linky. And I just love bike rides. My preschooler just got too big for a baby bike seat but is still too little to do a serious bike ride. So I’m benched right now. But we’ll get back out there.
Super list for anytime really.
I would wholeheartedly agree. It just happened to be summertime 🙂
I TOTALLY just cut and paste this and it’s now on my desktop so when the (ferals) kids get bored I can WHIP these out! Great list Jenny 🙂
What?!? That’s awesome 🙂 I’m curious to know how many of those you’ve already gone through.
What a great list! Some of these ideas I’ve never thought of before. Thanks for sharing and I’ll be featuring your post on Family Fun Friday.
Monica
http://happyandblessedhome.com
Yeah! Thanks for the feature! After publishing, I have even more I should add…
Phew… awesome ideas, now if I could-just-find-the- e…n…e…r….g….y…….When does school start again?
Thanks so much for hooking up to the Hump Day Hook Up!
Ha! I know. It was easier to put this list together than it has been taking advantage of all of my ideas. Some days, vegging out in front of the TV sounds really good.