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100+ Ideas for Free and Frugal Summer Fun

100+ Ideas for Free and Frugal Summer Fun

100+ Ideas for Free and Frugal Summer Fun

Enjoying your summer with kids can be as simple as catching fireflies or making homemade ice cream. Check out this list of 100s of free and fun ideas for indoor and outdoor summer activities with kids!

100+ Fun and Free Activities to Try With Your Kids This Summer

It's time to kick off Summer fun across America! I'm sure you have wonderful plans to make extraordinary family memories in the coming months. I'm bracing myself for the buckets of frogs that will soon grace my country porches. I know our zip line will see much love and we'll soon start checking our milkweed for monarch caterpillars to have a front row seat of God's creation.

The Better Mom wants to make these upcoming months a breeze for you and yours. Below you will find a go-to list of free and frugal Summer fun ideas. Be sure to pin this list and work it over well. We've included learning printables, activities, recipes, travel tips, bucket lists, and more.

Indoor Activities for Kids #1: Free Summer Themed Learning Printables

Free Printable Worksheets: BBQ ABC Printable Pack 33-Pages

Free Worksheets: Beach Printable Pack for ages 2-7 (Includes 49 Activities)

Free Instant Download: Farm Printable Pack (20-Pages)

Free Summer Games and Activities Printable Packet from A Journey Through Learning

Toddler/preschool ice-cream printables and activities

30 Free Learning Resources for Farming and Gardening

Garden Journal for Kids (Printable)

FREE Summer PreK Pack

Five Free Resources to Learn About Birds

Free Birds & Nests Nature Unit Study

Indoor Activities for Kids #2: Free Summer Bucket Lists and Activity Calendars

Free Summer Bucket List Printable + 2 FREE Summer Activity Calendars

Free Printable Summer Bucket List for Moms Who Want to Engage

107 Must Do Kids Activities for your Summer Bucket List

Creating a Summer Notebook

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How to Have a TV-Free Summer

Organizing Made Fun: Summer is here!

Helping Children Get through the Long Car Rides

Age Specific Chore List For Children Ages 1-12

Teaching Kids to Clean: Tips, Age Appropriate Cleaning Lists, & Free Chore Charts

Summer Responsibilities Charts

Camping List Suggestions (printables)

Tips to Simplify Summer Schedules

Road Trip Packing and Organization

What are your favorite ideas for free and frugal Summer fun?  Share in the comments!

Blessings,

Jamerrill

Looking for Other Fun and Free Ways to Connect with Your Kids This Summer?

Check out these popular posts from The Better Mom to help you have the best summer with your kids!

  1. 6 Summer Projects for Your Tweens and Teens: In this post, you will learn how to make life-time memories, while also seizing the moment to train your teens and tweens  up with the skills you would like to see them take into their future. Connect with your teens and tweens while expanding their skill sets! 

  2. 13 Summer Boredom Buster Ideas for Kids: Write fun summer activities for your kids on slips of paper and have them pull ideas out of the jar when you hear the inevitable sigh of “I’m bored!”   Busy hands and busy minds keep children out of trouble and this jar might just save your sanity this summer.

  3. 50 Summer Bucket List Ideas for Kids: In this post, you will find 50 ideas to have the best summer ever with your kids. Cut out the options and put them in a bucket and pull out one each day. Or pick your top ten favorite things to do before summer ends. Be diligent to use these ideas to connect with God in nature and connect with friends and family. As you do you're creating wonderful summer memories!

  4. 5 Screen-Free Summer Activities: If you are struggling to peel the iPad out of little hands or encourage your kids to play outside instead of on the Playstation, this post will give you fun and easy ways to encourage a screen-free summer! 

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