50 Screen-Free Activities for Teens
You, and your teens, will love these ideas for screen-free fun. Check out the full list of screen-free activities for teens, click the links for tutorials and supplies, and then share your own great ideas in the comments!
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50 Screen-Free Activities for Teens
- Do a science experiment
- Start a daily photo journal
- Learn a new language
- Make a scrapbook
- Start a butterfly garden
- Make jewelry or accessories
- Learn to make ice cream from scratch
- Play sudoku
- Do a jigsaw puzzle
- Make a family tree chart
- Organized a family scavenger hunt indoors
- Write a story or poem
- Learn a new workout routine
- Have a water balloon fight
- Camp out in the backyard
- Make a Mod Podge craft
- Run or walk a 5K
- Create a recycled material art project
- Learn Sign Language
- Write inspirational note cards for friends
- Play flashlight tag with the family at night
- Volunteer at the local animal shelter
- Learn a new sport
- Make slime
- Start a new hobby
- Learn a new instrument or learn to sing
- Look up the family cookbook and try a recipe passed down over the years
- Bake treats for local community helpers
- Upcycle an old pair of jeans
- Make sidewalk chalk paint
- Paint an old piece of furniture
- Wash the family car(s)
- Make a time capsule
- Stargaze
- Host an elaborate ice cream buffet or do an edible science experiment.
- Tie-dye shirts/accessories
- Paint kindness rocks (and deliver them!)
- Grow herbs
- Start a backyard creature log
- Read a book
- Start a book club with friends
- Make origami animals
- Start a diary
- Clean and sort to set aside things for donation and/or a garage sale
- Make a vision board
- Play a board game
- Create a themed collage from magazine clippings
- Try a Pinterest DIY
- Organize a Minute-to-Win-It family game night
- Make a bucket list
Download the 50 Screen-Free Activities Checklist
Get the Checklist for $1 at my Teachers Pay Teachers store here.
Also, try out these mindfulness activities for teens.
Here’s a free download of 10 of the activities:
High School Challenge for Homeschoolers
High School Challenge for Homeschoolers:
College prep is now going to be fun! Embark on this challenge during the next year to consider what college you might want to attend, how you will pay for it, what you need to do to impress admissions counselors, where to find scholarships, what skills you need to have when you get to college, and MUCH more.
This is how it works:
1. Register today and you will get access to a virtual classroom where all the challenges will be found. If more than 1 child from your family wants to participate you need to buy a registration for each one and they must each sign up with their own email address
2. On June 1 all the challenges will be released. There will be a LOT! But you don’t have to do them all – pick and choose. You will have until May 15, 2024 to work on them.
3. Included in the cost of registration is free access to our Intro to Google Drive Unit Study worth $20!! This can be started immediately
4. Between May 15 and May 31, 2024, the winners will be selected. The overall winner (student with the most points) will receive a $150 check. Many of the assignments will also be sponsored and students will be able to win $15, $25, and $50 Amazon gift cards if theirs is selected as the best. Find the list of sponsors and prizes here. (These are still forthcoming through the end of May.)
For more info visit our main High School Challenge page.
Some rules:
1. A points tie for the overall winner, will be broken by one of the challenges which will be selected as the tie-breaker. Judging for that will be done by FundaFunda teachers who do not know any of the students involved.
2. ONLY homeschoolers who are 9th through 12th graders in the 2023/24 school year can compete..
3. This contest is only relevant to students in the USA. Prizes can not be sent out of the country and many of the challenges won’t be applicable to students elsewhere.
Rainy Day & Summer Camp Fun
Here’s a course full of fun science experiments, fun crafts, clever recipes, and summer camp ideas that you can run for the neighborhood kids and make some money! Rainy Day & Summer Camp Fun
What do you get with the Rainy Day & Summer Camp Fun online course?
- Lifetime access for everything:
- 10 tutorials for Rainy Day Craft Fun
- 7 tutorials for Rainy Day Food Fun
- 5 tutorials for Rainy Day Science Experiment Fun
- 8 plans for Week-Long Summer and Christmas Break Camps
- Links, book ideas, videos, and step-by-step tutorial photos
- A 7-page Summer Camp Planning Guide
- Coming later in 2021: 3 kid book clubs
What other screen-free activities do you recommend? Please share in the comments?
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