We’ve just finished Spring Break here – 2 weeks of “let’s do something fun without going away or spending a ton of money”. This list is some of what we came up with together as a family, and activities we actually did over Spring Break, as well as some ideas that just popped into my head when I started writing things down! The list might be too late for you for this year, but it will be good reference for future too.

 These are things we could do around here with our kiddos (ages 5, 6 and 7) for the most part, but you can tailor the ideas to your family (children’s ages taken into consideration) and your area.

1. Stay Sane!  (Our #1 goal!)
2. Paint with watercolors
3. Blow Bubbles and chase them
4. Go to the Library
5. Go to the Zoo

6. Go to Science World (or a museum or other discovery center)
7. Snail Races
8. Family Bike Ride
9. Watch a movie together
10. Sort Toys
11. Sort clothes
12. Weed the garden
13. Play Doh!
14. Sidewalk chalk
15. Picnic (in the park or in the back yard or in your living room if it’s TOO cold to go outside)
16. Take a Hike
17. Trampoline
18. Have a Play Day at another family’s house
19. Read
20. Dress Up
21. Tea Party
22. Go Swimming
23. Dance together
24. Do a craft
25. Paint trim and doors and baseboards
26. Color pictures together
27. Play a family DVD game
28. Play cards
29. Play board games
30. Visit a local arcade or fun zone
31. Play air hockey
32. Make a city with your trian set
33. Play darts
34. Make sock puppets
35. Make greeting cards – birthday, thank you, or start on Christmas
36. Letters to family
37. Make/Build a model
38. Take Remote-Control cars to the park
39. Science Experiments @ home
40. Make a treasure chest
41. SING!
42. Write poems
43. Write songs
44. Write stories
45. play TWISTER
46. Go to a big field to play sports
47. Fly a kite
48. BBQ
49. Play with money for fun
50. Make cookies
51. Play in the sandbox
52. Play in water (in a bucket, in the tub, in the sink, in a small pool…)
53. Make a video
54. Call faraway friends and family
55. Mail postcards from your own home town to out of town family (or for fun, mail postcards to each other at home!)
56. Visit a nursery/greenhouse
57. Help a neighbor in their yard
58. Practice throwing a boomerang
59. Sew something
60. Make a beaded nacklace/bracelet
61. Have a silly supper
62. Camp in your yard, basement or living room
63. Take a walk
64. Shopping
65. Look through your old jewelry together
66. Watch home movies
67. try out photography
68. look at photo albums
69. make a slide show (a real one or on the computer)
70. Watch a sunrise
71. Watch a sunset
72. Count the stars
73. Count the new flowers you see each day
74. Collect bugs
75. Write in your journal/diary
76. Make something with toothpicks/popcicle sticks
77. Play Hide-n-seek
78. Have a Hula Night
79. hop scotch
80. hoola-hoop
81. Trade beds for a night
82. Sleep outside
83. Rearrange rooms/furniture
84. Have a Fiesta (Mexican Night)
85. Build a Rube Goldberg Machine
86. Silly String Fight
87. Water fight with ballons and water guns
88. Walk everywhere for a day
89. Visit a new park each day
90. Volunteer – anywhere!
91. Listen to audio stories
92. Play with Glo-in-the-Dark stuff (stickers, glo sticks, etc.)
93. Play with every single toy you have
94. Make dinner for another family
95. Collect plants
96. Make shadow puppets
97. Splash in puddles
98. Visit a different church
99. Have theme days (like @ camp – Pirate Day, Blue Day, Cowboy Day, Backward Day, etc.)
100. Use your imagination to come up with ideas for your family in your area & HAVE FUN!!

Also, check out my post about being a Tourist in your own town – another great idea for your Spring Break time!

Updated list – 50 MORE Things To Do on Spring Break.