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100 Ways to keep your kid entertained for free
Most kids seem like they need to be entertained 24/7.
I know mine does at least.
A lot of the times entertaining your child costs some dollars.
But what do you do when you don’t have any dollars to spare on child entertainment?
Well mama, you are just going to have to roll up the old sleeves and get creative.
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That means no going to Chuck-E-Cheese, No Fun Depot, not even a trip to the mall to play in the kid area. (because we may be tempted to hit the bath and body works sales am I right?)
Besides doing the obvious things like going to the park or going to the beach.
If you have beaches where you live, then you know most beaches are not free, you actually have to pay for parking.
So that’s out of the question when you are broke. (unless you find parking for free or live close enough to walk)
Here is a list I created with everything I can think of that will help you entertain your kids with NO money…
No spend kids activities
- Play board games
- Bake cookies
- Have a movie night
- Build a fort
- Take a walk
- Play with toys (with them!)
- Do arts and crafts
- Make something cool with play doh
- Make sensory bins
- Play video games
- Binge watch your favorite shows
- Have a dance party
- Play freeze dance
- Play eye spy
- Teach them how to cook something simple
- Bake a cake
- Decorate a room in the house together
- Read a book
- Go to the library
- Ride your bikes together
- Have a picnic outside
- Learn something new on YouTube
- Print free coloring pages
- Do a video chat with long distance relatives
- Act out a play
- Reread a favorite book
- Do finger painting
- Do a fitness video together on YouTube
- Finish a puzzle
- Use sidewalk chalk outside together
- Play hopscotch
- Do cartwheels
- Practice becoming flexible
- Rollerblade
- Camp in your backyard
- Play in a blowup pool in the backyard
- Declutter and organize their toys together
- Introduce them to a favorite show of yours when you were their age
- Paint each others nails
- Do each others hair
- Watch the sunrise or sunset together
- Go to a free beach
- Make smores in the backyard together
- Make tye-dye shirts together
- Fly kites
- Go fishing
- Ride scooters
- Play a card game
- Collect shells at the beach
- Take pictures
- Perform a puppet show
- Make homemade slime
- Create a family scrapbook together
- Hula hoop
- Make and fly paper planes
- Play soccer outside
- Throw a frisbee together
- Turn off the lights and make shadow puppets with a flashlight
- Plant a garden
- Rake the leaves together (and then jump in them!)
- Build a tower of cards
- Make a vision board together
- Play online games
- Play dress up
- Play hide and seek
- Make smoothies together
- Make a family scavenger hunt
- Have a pillow fight
- Start a rock collection
- Go on a nature walk
- Try a science experiment
- Write stories together
- Build sand castles
- Learn to play music together
- Write letters to family
- Go to the pool
- learn magic tricks
- Decorate a pair of jeans
- Play hot potato
- Make popsicles
- Play a trivia game
- Make bubbles
- Have a water gun fight
- Play basketball
- Wash and groom the dog together
- Decorate cookies
- Make art for the house
- Learn to play an instrument
- Have a nerf gun fight
- Explore the neighborhood together
- Do karaoke together
- Play with the cat
- Tell scary stories
- Make a scrapbook together of old pictures
- Watch home videos
- Sing fun songs together
- Play pretend school
- Race each other in the backyard
- Play freeze tag
- Make homemade pizza
Conclusion
From what I see above, you really don’t need money to have a good time with your kids.
Your kids don’t need much to be entertained as well.
Let me know what you do with your children to have some no spend fun!
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