Here’s a BIG List of Frugal Summer Fun Ideas for Kids…
Read a Good Book!
Check the summer reading program at the Multnomah County Library Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Program = FREE Book!
- Catch a Cheap Movie!
- Harkins Theatres {AZ, CA, CO, OK, TX}
- Great Escape Theatres {GA, IL, IN, KY, MO, NE, OH, PA, SC, TN, WV}
- Marcus Theatres {IA, IL, MN, ND, NE, OH, WI}
- Regal Summer Movie Express
Get Creative!
- Build a Marshmallow Toothpick House
- Play with Homemade Playdough
- Make some Marble Magnets
- Make some Funky Flower Flip Flops
- Make some Homemade Bookmarks
- Solve these Printable Mazes
- Color these fun Disney Coloring Pages
- Work on a FREE Organic Valley Kids Activity Booklet
- Make a Bird Feeder
- FREE In-Store Lakeshore Learning Crafts
- FREE In-Store Kids Crafts at Michael’s
- FREE In-Store Lego Freebies at the Lego Store!
- Grab this Free e-book: 22 Fun Activities for Kids
Get Building!
Go Bowling!
- FREE Bowling for Kids! {various locations throughout the U.S.}
- FREE AMF Summer Bowling for Kids!
Check Out a Fun Website! {and before anyone says anything, no I am NOT advocating spending your summer in front of a computer, but there are times when it's just too hot! Or, if you live in Oregon, there are times that it will rain in the middle of summer and you need to just rest indoors!}
- Lego Games
- Kids National Geographic
- Starfall
- Fun Brain
- Book Adventure
- Multiplication.com
- Nickelodeon
- PBS Kids
- Disney Games
More Boredum Busters…You could even make a jar full of ideas… and pull one out each day!
- Run through the sprinkler
- Fly a kite
- Paint the Fence, Rocks, Tree Truncks, etc. with paintbrushes from the $1.00 store… and use Water {instead of paint}!
- Go for a Bike Ride
- Blow bubbles
- Walk to the park
- Take a scooter ride around the block
- Look for fun shapes in the clouds
- Lemonade Stand {a childhood right of passage, if you ask me}
- Have fun with sidewalk chalk
- Play with a friend
- Earn Chuck E. Cheese’s FREE Tokens!
- Go to the beach
- Go to the lake
- Take a dip in the community pool
- Relax in the backyard inflatable pool
- Sign up for a fun, inexpensive class through your city
- Plant a garden!
- Pick some flowers & make a bouquet
- Have a tea party
- Have a nerf gun fight
- Have a picnic outside for lunch!
- Go fishing
- Go on a scavenger hunt
- Hoola Hoop!
- Make a fort using chairs, blankets, sheets, etc!
- 6/21 ~ get in to a National Park for FREE!
- Give the kids some rags and put water and soap on the kitchen floor and let them slip and slide around in their suites {fun for them, clean floor for you}
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