100+ Budget-Friendly Summer Fun Activities For Kids
Make memories together with 100+ budget-friendly screen-free summer fun activities for kids that can be done from home.
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Do you make a summer bucket list with your kiddos?
Every year Zach and I come up with a couple of day trips we want to do with the kids over the course of the summer.
Last year we were a little limited due to the Rona, but we managed to still surprise them with a trip to the Philadelphia Zoo.
Day trips are fun, but more often than not you just want a simple activity that can be done together as a family that does not require significant thought, planning, or money.
In the spirit of making budget-friendly memories together this summer, I have compiled 100 kids’ summer activities for you to do together as a family, and the best part?! – NO SCREENS REQUIRED!
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100+ Budget-Friendly Summer Fun Activities
1. Read books under your bedsheets with a flashlight.
3. Hide a puzzle in each bedroom and complete once found.
Summer Fun Activities For Kids
5. SING KARAOKE
6. Make homemade PLAY DOUGH.
7. Make HOMEMADE ICE POPS
8. Use FABRIC MARKERS and draw on old t-shirts
9. Make HOMEMADE PIZZAS
100+ Budget-Friendly Summer Fun Activities
10. Draw with SIDEWALK CHALK
11. Build with KNEX
12. Play at a nearby park
13. Ride BIKES
14. CREATE AN INDOOR SCAVENGER HUNT
Summer Fun Activities For Kids
15. Build a fire with sticks collected from your yard
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16. Make your own I SPY BOOK
17. Bake Cookie Drop Brownies
18. Hide a book in 5 rooms and read once found
19. Create an OUTDOOR SCAVENGER HUNT
100+ Budget-Friendly Summer Fun Activities
20. Dress up and have a tea party
21. Make HOMEMADE GUMMY BEARS
22. Make HOMEMADE ICE POPS
23. Make a fort with chairs and blankets
24. Hide 4 games and play them once found
Summer Fun Activities For Kids
25. Write a story
26. Read a story and act out the characters
27. COLOR
28. Create your own word search
29. ROLLER BLADE
100+ Budget-Friendly Summer Fun Activities
30. PAINT
31. Create your own crossword puzzle
32. PLAY KICKBALL
33. HAVE A PICNIC
34. Get up early and watch the sunrise with a PICNIC BREAKFAST
Summer Fun Activities For Kids
35. Have a pillow fight
37. Plant and decorate a flower kit
100+ Budget-Friendly Summer Fun Activities
40. Finger paint
41. Create your own library
42. Go for a hike
43. Create a menu then make it
44. Make a zoo with stuffed animals
Summer Fun Activities For Kids
45. Play JUMBO JENGA
46. Write your own play
47. Play in a SPRINKLER
48. Write LETTERS and mail them
49. Turn old jeans into shorts and decorate
100+ Budget-Friendly Summer Fun Activities
50. Do SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS
51. Put on a magic show
52. Have a shaving cream battle
53. Make a scrapbook
54. Fly a kite
Summer Fun Activities For Kids
55. Play Jumbo Checkers
56. Have a family cookout
57. Go snorkeling in your bathtub
58. Collect old toys and books for charity
59. Create an obstacle course
100+ Budget-Friendly Summer Fun Activities
60. Play basketball
61. Have a dance party
62. Camp outside
63. Have a water balloon fight
64. Go for a jog
Summer Fun Activities For Kids
65. Read books on a blanket outside with a snack
66. Press leaves or flowers in a book
67. Play trivia
68. Have a candlelight dinner
69. Create your own spa day
100+ Budget-Friendly Summer Fun Activities
70. Blow bubbles
71. Draw with fabric markers on old socks and make a puppet show
72. Take a bubble bath
73. Build with Legos
74. Build a huge train track
Summer Fun Activities For Kids
75. Knock down ARMY MEN with rubber bands
76. Build with Magna Tiles
100+ Budget-Friendly Kids Summer Activities
77. Climb a tree
78. Make an outdoor fort
79. Play dress up
100+ Budget-Friendly Summer Fun Activities
80. Decorate a cake
82. Tell jokes
83. Make a gingerbread house
84. Make a blanket with old shirts
Summer Fun Activities For Kids
85. Have a paper airplane contest
86. Learn to juggle
87. Have a squirt gun battle
88. Make new candles out of old ones
89. Play Bingo
100+ Budget-Friendly Summer Fun Activities
90. Build a playhouse out of cardboard boxes
91. Play charades
92. Make snowflakes with paper and scissors
93. Make your own soap
100+ Budget-Friendly Kids Summer Activities
94. Paint a mural on your bathtub wall
95. Set up an Easter egg hunt
96. Make greeting cards
98. Cook an ethnic meal
99. Write your own book
What is on your bucket list this summer?
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Love your ideas. Thanks for sharing.
Yay! I hope you are able to try some!
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