Frugal Friday: More than 100 Frugal Spring Family Activities

Can you feel it? Spring is in the air! I'm always on the lookout for free or cheap activities to do as a family at all seasons of the year. Today I'm sharing my list of more than 100 frugal activities you can do with your family in the springtime. I hope we can all be inspired to spend more time with our families. Doing fun things together builds love and healthy, lasting relationships.

1. Grow something - Try these educational ideas, Carrots in a 2-liter bottle, or a cute Grassapillar
2. Have a Mexican Fiesta for Cinco de Mayo and make a homemade pinata
3. Build a garden labryinth
4. Splash in some puddles
5. Go on a picnic
6. Play Hopscotch
7. Go star gazing - indoors or out
8. Go on a nature scavenger hunt
9. Have a puppet show - with cardboard marionettes
10. Do a puzzle
11. Read a book together
12. Have a soap box dragster race
13. Have a bubble gum blowing contest
14. Play dress-ups
15. Have a photo scavenger hunt - go on a walk and see how many things on the list you can take a picture of that have to do with spring - bird's nest, new buds, baby animals, spring flowers, etc.
16. Have a family slumber party!
17. Go fishing
18. Tap Dance - Here are some cute shoes you can make out of pennies
19. Paint a window with window paint
20. Build a rock pile
21. Learn some magic tricks together and put on a magic show
22. Fly Paper Airplanes
23. Raindrop racing: Sit at the window and each person picks a raindrop, starting at the same place and traces it down the window. The first drop to hit the bottom of the window wins!
    
24. Have a jump rope competition to see who can jump the most in 2 minutes
25. Go on a treasure hunt. Hide some buried treasure and make a treasure map
26. Get some bars of soap and have a soap carving contest
27. Make paper daffodils
28. Visit a greenhouse
29. Play Fluffy bunny with marshmallows 
30. Decorate Easter Eggs
31. Put on a play or puppet show - here's some free playscripts
32. Have a bug safari and hunt for all kinds of bugs
33. De-junk your house and gear up for a yard/garage sale
34. Invite over some neighbors for a party
35. Explore your city or town - find something that you never saw or knew about before
36. Go on a hike - motivate kids with these fun games or come up with your own. Keep a pocketful of small snacks to motivate and give "turbo boosts" to lagging kids
37. Play frisbee
38. Start an ant farm
39. Raining outside? Play ribbon limbo!
40. Draw pictures of each other together
41. Feed the ducks at a local pond
42. Spring clean the house!
43. Have a family parade - put on the marching music, get out the rythmn instruments (or pots and pans), dress up, and have fun!
44. Plant a garden and teach your children the value of work and the law of the harvest! 
45. Adopt a grandma or grandpa in the neighborhood
46. Decorate the sidewalks with spring art
47. Make mud pies
48. Have a catapult contest
49. Write letter to someone
50. Learn how rain works with this rain in a bag activity
51. Visit a farm nearby and see the baby animals
52. Do some landscaping together or a home improvement project
53. Have a TV free week or month
54. Hunt for a four-leaf clover
55. Make nature mosaics or 3-D art by gluing rocks, leaves, plants that you find outside together.
56. Play Spaz
57. Plant some fruit trees
58. Shake some homemade rainsticks in a rain dance
59. Make a rainy day maze with bed sheets
60. Go on a family bike ride
61. Make a butterfly habitat
62. Make Homemade Bird Feeders
63. Have an upside down evening
64. Go on a staycation
65. Wash your windows
66. Visit a local monument or historical site
67. Play a homemade version of twister
68. Volunteer in your community - plant some flowers, visit people in a rest home or hospital, etc.
69. Play catch
70. Climb trees
71. Have a marshmallow war!
72. Tape some paper to the wall and draw an art mural
73. Have a game night where everyone picks their favorite game to play
74. Go outside and play nature memory
75. Give away some random acts of kindness - need ideas? Here's several to keep you going for a while!
    
76. Have a bike wash
77. Fly a kite - make your own or buy one
78. Find some animal prints to identify and track
79. Play freeze tag
80. Have a paper airplane contest
81. Play Frisbee or another outdoor sport
82. Make a recycled twig birdhouse
83. Make boats & float them in some water
84. Have an Egg Wrestling Match or here's another Easter egg game idea
85. Plant an indoor sponge garden
86. Go to a local free museum
87. Go on a nature walk and notice all the signs of spring 
88. Play Reverse Charades
89. Play in the mud
90. Get out your magnifying glasses and explore your back yard - see who can find the most interesting thing
91. Make a parachute out of an old bed sheet and bounce balls or balloons
92. Wash the car
93. Make a meal together from another culture
94. Play Swing the Statue
95. Go bird watching. Or how about butterflies or squirrels? 
96. Build a backyard obstacle course out of chairs, hula hoops, jump ropes, or garden hoses
97. Build a tower out of cards as high as you can
98. Hunt for the other end of the rainbow
99. Go to the park & play 
100. Host an egg olympics

If that's not enough ideas for you, here's a free e-book with activities and crafts for the spring. Or see my post on More than 100 Frugal Winter Family Activities, which includes many activities that would work for spring also.

What about you? Do you have any ideas to share? We'd love to hear from you. Then go out and have some fun!


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