It’s the holidays and you have 2 weeks to keep the kids busy.
Whilst there are many amazing and wonderful programs, workshops and activities for the kids, often there are also parents who just can not afford to use these options as they exceed the budget.
Here’s my list of 50 budget friendly things you can do with the kids these holidays.
- Perform a puppet show
- Make magazine collages
- Play board games
- Have a bubble bath or fill a small plastic pool with bubbles
- Have a dance party
- Listen to an audio book or make your own by recording a book you read
- Make paper chains
- Build a blanket fort
- Make box cars, boats or houses
- Bake together
- Play dress up
- Go to the library
- Play a card game
- Build puzzles
- Blow bubbles
- Have an indoor picnic
- Go on a scavenger hunt
- Be superheroes with homemade capes made from towels
- Draw or paint a picture
- Start a scrapbook
- Make a video of your child singing or saying a poem
- Make paper aeroplanes
- Make and play with playdough
- Make friendship braclets
- Play with balloons
- Make your own musical instruments
- Paint each others faces
- Watch a movie
- Play hopscotch
- Have a tea party
- Make a car wash for toy cars
- Have a foam fight outside
- Make mud pies
- Finger paint
- Play in puddles
- Play hide and seek
- Go on a nature walk
- Plant flowers and start a garden
- Make shadow puppets
- Build a shoe box city
- Paint rocks
- Play charades
- Write letters to friends and family
- Write it tell a story
- Learn new songs or rhymes
- Read a book
- Build Lego towers
- Make a toy hospital and let your child be the doctor
- Run races or have an indoor obstaclean course
- Cuddle up and say I love you
How ever you choose to spend the holidays may then be full of love and memories.