I thought it would be useful to list some ways to have fun with your children without spending a lot of money:
- Have a reading marathon
- Write stories together
- Play soccer
- 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 games
- Play kickball
- Get up early, pack breakfast, and have a sunrise breakfast
- Go to a museum
- Go to a playground
- Play hide-and-seek
- Have a pillow fight
- Ride bikes
- Build sandcastles
- Rent an online movie and make popcorn
- Tell stories
- Have a scavenger hunt
- Make mazes or puzzles for each other to solve
- Play card games
- Garden together
- Bake cookies
- Go to the zoo
- Go to the library
- Shop at a thrift shop
- Create a blog together
- Create a scrapbook
- Make a movie using a camcorder and computer
- Learn to play music
- Fingerpaint
- Make play dough from scratch
- Make homemade mini pizzas
- Buy popsicles
- Make hand-painted T-shirts
- Set up a hammock, make lemonade, relax
- Go to a pool
- Go to a public place, people watch, and make up imaginary stories about people
- Visit family
- Write letters to family
- Paint or decorate the children room
- Make milkshakes
- Play freeze tag
- Create a treasure hunt for them
- Decorate a pair of jeans
- Do a science experiment
- Play games online
- Teach them to play chess
- Learn magic tricks
- Create a family book, with information and pictures about each family member
- Fly kites
- Go snorkeling
- Barbecue
- Volunteer
- Donate stuff to charity
- Compete in a three-legged or other race
- Create an obstacle course
- Pitch a tent and sleep outside with marshmallows
- Roast marshmallows
- Play loud music and dance crazy
- Write and produce a play
- Paint each other’s faces
- Have a water balloon fight
- Have a gun-fight with those foam dart guns
- Explore your yard and look for insects
- Go for a walk and explore the neighborhood
- Go jogging
- Take pictures of nature
- Play a trivia game
- Make up trivia questions about each other
- Make hot cocoa
- Play home-home
- Decorate the house with decorations you make
- Make popsicles
- Play school-school
- Do shadow puppets
- Make a comic book
- Play in the rain
- Make mud pies
- Blow bubbles
- Take turns saying tongue twisters
- Sing songs
- Tell ghost stories in the dark with a flashlight
- Build stuff with Lego
- Give them a bubble bath
- Play with squirt guns
- Play video games together
- Play cricket
- Make bubbles
- Build a rocket from a kit
- Bake a cake and decorate it
- Play dress-up
- Thumb-wrestle, play mercy, or have a tickle fight
- Make a gingerbread house, or decorate gingerbread men
- Learn and tell each other jokes
- Play basketball
- Learn to juggle
- Walk barefoot in the grass and pick flowers
- Build paper airplanes and have a flying contest
- Prank call their grandparents, using disguised, humorous voices
Let me know how did it go!
