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.

 

2.  Bake cake pops

 

3.  Hide a puzzle in each bedroom and complete once found.

 

4.  DO A MURDER MYSTERY

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

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Chutes and ladders

monopoly junior

life junior

tenzi

connect four

spot it

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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

36. PLAY HIDE AND GO SEEK

37. Plant and decorate a flower kit

38. LEARN MAGIC TRICKS

39. Play I Spy in a bucket

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

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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

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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

 

81. Decorate sugar cookies

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

97. Make your own puzzle

98. Cook an ethnic meal

99. Write your own book

100. Paint a picture frame

What is on your bucket list this summer?

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