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Cheap or Free Summer Activities for Kids

July 15, 2020 Leave a Comment

We are all looking for some Cheap or Free Summer Activities for Kids to keep kids busy. I’ve put together this list of 25 Cheap or Free Summer Activities for Kids here as a resource (feel free to print, pin, or save!)

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Brainstorming: Summer Activities for Kids

  • Look around your house for things your can play with
  • Have the kids make a bucket list of free activities they want to do
  • Consider 25 SUMMER ACTIVITIES TO DO WITH KIDS WHILE YOU ARE SELF-DISTANCING
  • Read local newspapers and websites for family-friendly activities in your community and/or city
  • Follow the Parent Club Kid’s Activities Pinterest Board for ideas
  • Cut out BEST BRAIN TEASERS WITH ANSWERS FOR KIDS and challenge the kids
  • Make something (everything) a race (thee is something about competition which gets kids going. So first to the fence!

Cheap or Free Summer Activities for Kids

  1. Bike riding
  2. Go for a nature walk
  3. Try geocaching
  4. Go to the beach
  5. Swim
  6. Run through the sprinkler
  7. Plan a picnic
  8. Fly a kite
  9. Grow plants
  10. Sidewalk chalk hopscotch
  11. Blow bubbles
  12. Bowling (you can DIY your own pins with milk containers)
  13. Make your own Popsicles
  14. Science Experiments
  15. Play dough or Kinetic sand
  16. Write to a pen pal
  17. Make homemade ice cream
  18. Play on a swing set
  19. Play catch
  20. Water fight
  21. Obstacle course (with things you already have)
  22. Puppet show
  23. Hot potato
  24. Paint rocks
  25. Musical chairs
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Yes, fun can be free

We often over schedule and over plan as parents. This just causes stress and anxiety (and I’m speaking from experience — I am a major over planner and over thinker). Kids are busy all year round with school and sports and extracurriculars. It’s OK to make summer more downtime oriented. And yes, this fits with free and fun.

You don’t need to buy amusement park entry and water park passes for the kids. Give a kid a sprinkler and let them have at it. Or water balloons. Or sponges and a bucket (soak em and throw em!).

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