100+ Budget-Friendly Summer Fun Activities

Ahna Fulmer
by Ahna Fulmer

Make memories together with 100+ budget-friendly screen-free kids’ summer fun activities that can be done from home.


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

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


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

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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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guess who

Chutes and ladders

monopoly junior

life junior

tenzi

connect four

spot it

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


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


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

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


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

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


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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