Free Things To Do In Albuquerque
- When our kids are home full time, it's easy to start shelling out too
much for matinees and meals out. But you don't have to blow your
entertainment budget just because the kids are home with you.
Here are 15 unique ideas for no-cost summer fun the whole family will enjoy.
1. Help your kids create a scavenger hunt for their siblings. The prize
at the end can be something simple: a coupon to get out of a chore, for
example.
2. Decide on a charitable organization you all want to help as a family. Then make a plan to raise money as a group.
3. Help your 'tween or teen come up with a new business idea and help
them get started. They may want to mow lawns, or maybe they want to
create something to sell locally or online.
4. Help your kids plant a vegetable or flower garden.
5. Take advantage of your public library's summer reading program. In
addition to weekly story times, many communities have excellent
programs, complete with incentives, prizes, and contests, that encourage
kids to read. After you visit the library, invite a few neighbor kids
over for a read aloud. Everyone has a chance to read a short book to the
group. Then serve popsicles.
6. See if there are any websites in your area that catalog free or low
cost events: children's plays, concerts, art experiences, or museum
tours. Look in the newspaper, visit your chamber of commerce and do an
internet search for more activities and events that are specific to your
town or city.
7. Find out when the free admission days are for your local zoo, museum,
and historical attractions. Mark these free days on your calendar and
plan the rest of your summer fun accordingly.
8. Get some neighbor kids together to write, cast, and stage a short play or a series of skits.
9. Help your children start a daily journal. Summertime is great for
those little projects there isn't enough time to do during the school
year.
10. Bring simple art supplies on a hike. When you reach your
destination, everyone sits down on a blanket and draws a wildflower or
the view from the top of a hill.
11. Go geocaching.
12. Make a silly video and send it to the grandparents.
13. Volunteer, as a family, with a local organization or cause that is
particularly meaningful to you. Maybe you'll clean hiking trails, join
or start a recycling initiative, or walk dogs at a local shelter.
Free Things To Do In Albuquerque
14. Ask each member of the family to take a turn teaching everyone else how to do something.
15.
Make an obstacle course that goes around your block. This can be as
simple as making symbols on the sidewalk with chalk that represent
traditional obstacle-course moves: tire runs, jumping on one foot,
running backward, and so on.
Free Things To Do In Albuquerque
