Free things to do outside the house??

Sometimes I take mine to stores and just let her play around with the toys haha

I started going to library outside of story time as ours has a little play area with toys.

I am not sure if your library has this but our local library has passes you can check out for local zoos,museums and gardens.

Beach. Lake. Events, festivals. Market. There’s 4 types of “parks”- skate park, playground park, water splash park, and nature park. Nature park he loves playing in the river crossing and running around looking for wild rabbits. He scoots on the scooter at the skate park from 18m. Hot weather, we go pools or beach or splash park. Farm entry is only $10 and we have a yearly museum and zoo membership, it’s paid for in advance so every time we go it’s no fee. For their bdays ask people instead of gifts, to give money towards a zoo membership etc that way you can go all year for “free”. And yes storytime at the library. And there’s one playcentre near me that has “cheap $5 Tuesdays”

Walking the mall during a weekday daytime hours. Sometimes their kid friendly activities, stores, and they can run because not many people.
Any fast sit down food place like panera, culvers, or something restaurant like.
Downtown here has parks and shops and we can walk outside with stroller.
Petco is a good idea! Lol!

If you have SNAP, just Google ‘SNAP free discounted (your state name)’ because there’s all kinds of other stuff that you can get into for discounted rates with your SNAP card! I know for us, both the zoo and the natural history museum are like $3 admission (for groups up to 10) instead of like the $10 EACH admission. We actually just went to see the Frozen play (the traveling off Broadway one!!!) and my kids and I were $14 each. My dad’s ticket was $95!!!!! You do have to show your SNAP card and a photo ID at will call, but considering that there’s not a chance in hell I could have taken my kids to see an off Broadway play entirely on my own, I’ll deal with a little blow to the ego.

I took my 15 month old to the local nursery this weekend and let her look at all the plants and touch some of them. She also loved the yard art they had 🙂 we spent about an hour there

Discovery museums & gardens!

If you have a library card ask if they participate in the discover and go! If so then use your library card # and your library card password and thats the login for your discover and you can go to zoos, museums, exploratoriums, children's discovery museums, gardens for free or at a very very reduced cost!

My boy loves trains, sometimes we sit outside the train stop watching them go by 😂😂

At that age just go for walks! Walk through the woods looking for different leaves. Put their puddle suit on and go for a splash in puddles. Go to the play area. Time outside in nature is free, we went on a big walk daily at that age.

Science center. If you have WIC most places give a discount