This recession has made things especially tight for the family. Most of these are free or don’t cost very much. I was thinking how useful it would be to have a list of some ways to have fun without spending a lot of money:
- Play sports together: soccer, basketball, baseball, kickball or football.
- Paint or draw together.
- Create a fort in your living room out of blankets or cardboard boxes.
- Go on a hike.
- Have a sunset picnic at a park or beach.
- Play board or card games.
- Go to a playground.
- Find out what day your museum has a free day. Most do.
- Play hide-and-seek.
- Ride bikes or scooters.
- Watch a movie and make popcorn.
- Bake cookies (let the kids help).
- Go to the zoo.
- Go to the library.
- Create a scrapbook.
- Color together.
- Make play dough from scratch.
- Make homemade mini pizzas.
- Go to a public place, people watch, and make up imaginary stories about people.
- Visit family.
- Create a treasure hunt for them (leaving clues around the house or yard).
- Create a family book, with information and pictures about each family member.
- Fly kites.
- Donate stuff to charity.
- Pitch a tent and sleep outside with marshmallows that you roast.
- Have a water balloon fight.
- Explore your yard and look for insects.
- Go for a walk and explore the neighborhood.
- Make hot cocoa.
- Play school.
- Play in the dirt together. Make mud pies or plates. You can even make up restaurant situations.
- Sing songs.
- Bake a cake and decorate it.
- Play dress-up.
- Thumb-wrestle, play mercy, or have a tickle fight.
- Play “I Spy” in the car or during a walk.
- Draw on the sidewalk with chalk
- Set up plastic bottles and a ball to play a bowling game.
- Make a mobile.
- Take a Firehouse Tour
- Create a collage
- Make sock puppets.
- Make pasta necklaces.
- Go to the dog park.
- Make a mask out of paper, string, and crayons.
- Go sledding
- Play Simon Says.
- Catch lightning bugs.
- Go to a community movie. Most cities have them.
- Make and bury a time capsule.
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