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Looking for baby games or cheap things to do with baby? This extensive list delivers easy ways to save on your next adventure with baby. This list is handy if you are a new or stay-at-home mum or dad and you are looking for cheap adventures to fill your days. Print this list off or access it on your phone keep when planning your weekly outings. This list will make sure that you make the most of your days and help you to create fabulous photos and memorabilia of your days together. The ideas will also bring you some much-needed sanity!
180+ budget adventures with bubs
Blow bubbles
- Attend free community classes
- Attend special events at the mall
- Be a tourist in your own town
- Become an audience member
- Blow bubbles at the beach
- Book health appointments in person
Borrow it!
- Borrow audio books at the library
- Borrow baby books from the library
- Borrow library DVDs
- Borrow some famous books at the library
Browse around
- Browse arcades
- Browse baby shops
- Browse home furniture stores
- Browse kids books at a bookstore
- Browse the inspiration section of a bookstore
Treat yourself
- Buy a new lip gloss
- Buy a tree together and watch it grow
- Buy bubs a cheap toy
- Catch a train
- Catch a tram
- Check out a new mall
- Check out family fun days
- Check out !owers in a hot house
- Check out local events
- Dip your feet in the ocean
- Discover free performances
- Discover the classics at the library
- Do a mums and bubs Yoga class
Drive somewhere
- Drive to a forest
- Drive to discount supermarkets
- Drive to get some hot chocolate
- Drive up a mountain
- Eat breakfast out together
- Eat fish and chips at the beach
- Enjoy a ferry ride
- Enjoy a festival
- Enrol baby in swimming
- Enrol in holiday programs
- Enrol in swimming lessons
- Feed the ducks at a park
- Find a great playground
- Find a specialist cake shop and share a slice
Be spontaneous
- Go and feel some snow
- Go bird watching together
- Go bowling with mums
- Go for a bike ride
- Go for a bush walk
- Go for a drive to the country.
- Go for a drive with your favourite CD
- Go for a power walk through a mall
- Go for a run with the pram
- Go for a swim at your local pool
- Go for a walk across a bridge
- Go on a city street walk
Become day trippers
- Go on a day trip to a mall out of town
- Go on a free holiday. Organise a house swap.
- Go on a regular walk daily
- Go op shopping
- Go out for brunch with friends
- Go out for co#ee and cake
- Go out for hot chocolate
- Go out for ice-cream
- Go out for lunch with friends
- Go out for pizza. Bubs can watch!
- Go out to buy grocery essentials
- Go the supermarket for items you need
- Go to a baby market
- Go to a bub-friendly sports match
- Go to a concert for kids
- Go to a kid-friendly matinee
- Go to a photographic exhibition
Go there
- Go to a play café
- Go to a story-telling workshop
- Go to an expo
- Go to Bunnings for a coffee and play
- Go to free play areas in malls
- Go to McDonalds
- Go to a mums-and-bubs movie sessions
- Go to O!ceworks for a free co#ee
- Go to Shakespeare in the Park
- Go to some summer concerts
- Go to the circus
- Go to the zoo
- Go window shopping
- Have a picnic at your local park
- Have a picnic by a lake
- Have fun at a costume shop
- Have morning tea at a kid-friendly café
- Hold an older baby on a whizzy dizzy
Join in
- Hunt down some live music
- Invite friends over
- Join a gym with a crèche
- Join a mothers group
- Join a toy library
- Lay on a blanket at the park
- Make a surprise dinner for your partner
- Make movies on your phone
- Make up silly reasons to go for walks
- Meet friends at the park
- Meet new people at Op shops
- Open a savings account
- Place !owers at a xemetery
- Plan a bbq lunch for mums
- Plan a road trip or holiday
- Put bubs on a two dollar ride
- Read inspiration at the library
- Read on the bean bags at the library
- Rent some baby DVDs
- Run some errands at the Post O”ce
- Sit in a hotel lobby
- Slide down a slide together at the park
- Spend an afternoon at the beach
- Spend the day on the beach
- Spray yourselves at a pharmacy
- Stay overnight in a motel
- Take a bus ride
- Take a road trip. Visit people.
- Take bubs for ride on their bike
- Take bubs on a mall train ride
- Take bubs to see an orchestra
Get snap happy
- Take photos at scenic locations
- Take photos at some rose gardens
- Take some books to the park
- Take the dog for a walk
- Tour relic ships and boats
- Travel to some interstate events
Visit interesting places
- Visit a castle
- Visit a cathedral
- Visit a children’s farm
- Visit a church or go to fair
- Visit a Conservatory
- Visit a cool city café for kids
- Visit a deli and sample their gourmet cheese.
- Visit a famous tourist destination
- Visit a farm
- Visit a gift store. Buy a gift for a friend.
- Visit a museum
- Visit a National Park
- Visit a pet store
- Visit a planetarium
- Visit a private garden
- Visit a public garden
- Visit a skate park
- Visit a street market
- Visit a tip store
- Visit a town
- Visit a toy shop
- Visit a weekend market
- Visit a wildlife park
- Visit an animal sanctuary
- Visit an aquarium
- Visit an art supply store
- Visit an historic building
- Visit an historic cottage
- Visit an historic mansion
- Visit an historic town
- Visit and ABC store
- Visit and aquatic park
- Visit and art gallery
- Visit and elderly person
- Visit di$erent libraries
- Visit every park in your neighbourhood
- Visit friends
- Visit grandparents
- Visit Ikea for a browse and a cheap lunch
- Visit music shops and play with the instruments
- Visit someone at work
- Visit the botanical gardens
- Visit the lonely
- Visit your dream home
Go for a walk
- Walk along a pier
- Walk through a city park
- Walk to a bakery
- Walk to a local mall
- Walk to the council offices and get event info
- Wash your car at the car wash
- Watch a fireworks display
- Watch a parade
- Watch a procession
- Watch a puppet show
- Watch theatre rehearsals
- Write a letter to Santa
