What Fun Things To Do With Friends – What’s COOL and CHEAP to do with teenage friends when bored? Glad you asked. Budget-friendly and teen-approved options.
What do teenagers do for fun…especially if they (or the friends they want to hang out with) don’t have a lot of money to spend?
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Keep your teen budget intact with this resource of really cool and inexpensive things to do with your teen friends.
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Skim through the fun activities listed below with your child, find out which ideas work for you and your family, then let them invite their friends over for some fun!
I think every single teenager in the world is bored at some point (and, usually, several points throughout the day!).
I mean – I was a teenager once, and I even remember sitting around wondering what to do with myself.
That’s why I’m making a list of COOL and CHEAP things to do with teenage friends when you’re bored.
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Your teen can use these free escape room printables (they even include audio files for the missions) to create an escape room to invite some friends over.
Using materials such as scissors, pens, single-sided printed copies of free missions, etc., they will be able to solve puzzles, decipher Morse codes, and deactivate bombs .
Want to send a group of teenagers spiraling out of control into giggles? Choose from some of these 200 Minutes to Win Games.
Psst: here are 27 cheap double date ideas for young people. 3. Ask Parents for their Gym + Guest Pass
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Do you have a guest gym pass that you can use to bring your teen and one of their friends to the gym?
They can exercise, go to the café, or just talk while stretching – beats being bored at home!
Parents: looking to bond with your teenager? Here are 17 activities to do WITH teenagers. 4. Set Up a Building Challenge
One of the cheapest and most fun things to do with your child’s best friend? Doing a building challenge.
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Help your teen get the supplies needed (things like toothpicks, marshmallows, and jelly beans), and compete with his friends in the building challenge, or in this spaghetti tower building challenge.
Your teen can host a sleepover night when something is supposed to be happening in the sky – meteors, shooting stars, eclipses, whatever you can find. Set up an outdoor area with a tent, or even a blown-up kiddie pool or mattress, and include pillows and blankets to keep everyone warm.
Help them set the alarm for when the big show starts and stay up a little longer than usual!
1,937 different chocolate bars to try. The percentage of cocoa changes, the variations in ingredients, and much, much more.
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Have your teen and their friends meet at the grocery store and pick out 6 different kinds, print out the free chocolate tasting printables, and enjoy some gal-pal time while thinking about their favorites (and not so favorites).
Look for local flash mob announcements (you can google for this), or use this page to see if there are any flash mobs near you. An unforgettable thing to meet up with friends and do! Definitely going on your bucket list.
Psst: definitely check out my article on 50 things to do for teens this summer. 8. Do Spooky Fire Pit Readings
Does your teen love a good scary story? Grab some short scary stories that are local to your area or completely fictional (your choice!), help them light the fire pit in the backyard, and let your teen’s group of friends take turns reading scary stories out loud.
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What if your teen and some of their friends completely took over the kitchen for one night and cooked dinner for you (and themselves)?
Make sure there’s a parent-approved checkpoint, once they know what they want to cook from your pantry/freezer/cupboards.
My childhood friend Michelle and I created a time capsule one afternoon when we were extremely bored. We decided to bury it in a wooded part of my family’s farm, and promised to meet there when we were 25 to dig it up again.
Spoiler alert: we got to about 16, when he asked us to dig it up so he could get his stuff…
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It was a special bonding experience that I will never forget. Maybe your teen and their friends want to do the same?
Your teen can pop on some tunes, and set up paper or posters or canvases with paints so that their group of friends can paint the person to their right. No actors in their posse? Even better – they will be hilarious.
Pssst: are your youngsters about to have a sleepover? Check out these 100 things to do at a sleepover. 12. Take the $6 Dollar Tree Date Challenge
This video of three guys doing the $6 Date Night Dollar Store Challenge is hilarious. AND, they do a great job!
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Basically, everyone has a $6 budget to put together a “date night” (we’ll call it friend night, for you and your friends) food from the Dollar Tree. Additional taxes that take your final number over $6 are fine. They also have a 15 minute countdown (optional).
You may no longer think of malls as one of the cool places for young people to hang out. But stay with me here.
There is no need to buy a lot of things to make a mall a good hangout for young people. Teens can print out the free mall scavenger hunt printable and compete with their friends (or, do it together).
Here’s a teen hangout idea: places like Menchie’s are a great place for teens and their friends to hang out because there’s usually a cool fire pit on the patio, and you pay for frozen yogurt by pound. If they don’t have a lot of money? They can only get less toppings.
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Your teen and their friends are driving now, or soon will be. How fun would it be for them to go out shopping for cool keychains to use on their first car? Also, it’s a super cheap activity to do.
They can also make their own keychains with some relatively inexpensive materials. And a shopping trip to the dollar store or Michael’s is always fun with friends! (Love the braided t-sheet keychain).
Psst: you’ll also want to check out Thanksgiving activities for teens, and Christmas activities for teens. Things To Do With Teenage Friends When Bored At Home
So, your teen and their friends stay. What are some cool things to do with teenage friends in your home (or theirs)?
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Save a bunch of chopsticks from Chinese take-out nights, and then when your teen has friends over, have everyone eat with ONLY chopsticks (no matter what snack or meal you serve!) .
Set a timer for 5 minutes, and every 5 minutes they will have to tag their partner – then the partner must go to the exact position they were in when they left.
The supplies for these are super cheap – think a few boxes of $0.99 spaghetti noodles, toothpicks, and marshmallows – and your kids can easily pair up in groups of 2-3 to compete against each other.
Your teen can pick up a dictionary in another language, and learn how to say a word that their friends will instantly recognize as something special between them all. If nothing else, trying to pronounce all those words can
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Coloring is trendy at any age, so why not help your teen print out some really intricate, free Mandala pages, and ask their friends to each bring a set of coloring pencils to share while cuddling on a table? (My favorites are the Native American Dream Catcher coloring pages).
Your teen and their friend can draw/paint pictures of each other (with blindfolds, of course), or pick something that the whole group should try blindfolded.
The host can put in all the ingredients (or even pre-make the pizza dough), along with the topping options, and everyone can make their own mini-pizzas!
Basically, each teenager is given the task of coming up with a new drink for a local ski-resort. They will have to measure ingredients, taste test, and price things so they can make at least $1.00.
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Then, each new drink goes through a taste test by a panel of judges (maybe adults?), and a winner/awards are given.
Psst: There are more at-home activities on my list of 50 summer activities for teens. Activities for Girl Groups
This one might be more expensive than the other suggestions, but it’s a great activity to do together! Here’s an article outlining how to choose a base, and how to get different scents using different materials.
Have your teen meet up at a local thrift store with their friends – or ride in someone’s mini-van – and bring $5. They each have to buy a piece of clothing to wear to school on Monday with that $5.
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If your teen has a group of teenage girls, playing Tag-Team Twister is the way to go! Pair up in groups of 2 or 3. Set a timer for 5 minutes, and