Keep your kid entertained without spending any money
“We spend so much money entertaining our kid every weekend.” It was the amount of a family’s food budget! As much as we love our little ones, most of us don’t have an unlimited pot of money. For those of you who are on a “no spend” week or month, this sounds like a crazy story. There are so many ways to spend time with your kid without spending money:
- Go swimming
- Play a board game
- Perform a magic trick
- Create new crayons
- Present your own puppet theatre
- Make a family tree
- Scrapbook together
- Play jump rope games
- Write a handwritten letter to family members
- Make your own playdough
- Dance
- Go to the local playground
- Perform a concert
- Go for a walk in the park
- Build a fort
- Write a story
- Play a card game
- Start a microgarden
- Go to the beach
- Paint rocks
- Listen to a story at the library
- Have a scavenger hunt
- Draw new art
- Watch a movie
- Visit a museum
- Create a puzzle for others to solve
- Play a musical instrument
- Bake a cake
- Try a science experiment
- Create a comic book
- Watch the planes take off at the airport
- Have an indoor picnic
- Make pizza
- Do a fashion show
- Set up your own spa
- Perform a show
- Build a cereal box home
- Play a video game
- Make animals out of Playdough
- Build Lego
- Create a family picture book
- Volunteer as a family
- Listen to an audio book
- Make a necklace out of pasta or sweets
- Fix a broken toy
- Play mini ping pong
- Connect the dots
- Go for a bike ride
- Make fruit popsicles
- Play mini golf
What’s your favourite way of spending time with your kid? We’d love to hear what you’re doing together. Do you have a separate budget for kid/family activities or do you choose free of charge? Looking forward to reading your comments!
Until next time,
Agni