A big thank you goes to Shane and Heather for helping me in compiling these ideas that their families do to keep them busy for very little money.
What are your fun family activities? Share them with us in the comments section below!
- Purity Dairy Ice Cream Tours: daily at 10a, 11a and 1p. Reservations required. Go here for contact info.
- Home Depot Kid Workshops: click here for more info
- Lowes Build and Grow Clinics: click here for more info
- Chick-Fil-A Family Night: on Tues- $.99 kids meals and free ice cream, along with clowns, balloon animals and a walking cow!
- Christ Church: indoor playground
- Mall Playgrounds: Cool Springs or Hickory Hollow (be sure to sign up for the Auntie Anne’s monthly newsletter that includes coupons)
- Pet Smart: A trip to to check out the animals.
- Feed the Geese/Ducks: Go to a local park where there is a lake or pond.
- Percy Priest Lake: throwing stones in, wading in warm weather.
- Long Hunter State Park: near Percy Priest has a terrific playground with a huge wooden boat.
- Story Times: Your Local Library, Davis Kidd, and Barnes and Noble story times
- Creek Wading: at River Park on Know Valley and Concord Road
- Sonic Happy Hour– 2-4p all drinks half off (slushes and fountain drinks)
- Krispy Kreme: to watch the donuts being made and get a hat, usually they will give you a free donut, when the sign says “Hot Donuts Now”
- Scavenger Hunt: – We didn’t travel more than a mile from home, but had two hours of fun and spent no money!
- GEOCACHING! (If you don’t know that that is, look it up- its a blast for elementary age kids and older) www.geocaching.org
- Crockett Park summer concert series
oh this is so helpful!! love it!! thanks so much!! 🙂
We took the Purity Dairy tour this week. I wouldn’t exactly call it a tour. We got to watch ice cream get packed up in boxes, watched a movie that was about 30 years old and then got free ice cream (the best part)! Thankfully it is free, but it wasn’t quite what we were expecting. I would recommend it for kids 5 and up. Also, I regarding Krispy Kreme – the last time we were at the Cool Springs store, the hot light was on and we asked for a free donut and they said they were no longer giving freebies 🙁 Not sure if every store is doing this or not.