A Summer Free-for-All

Here’s a list of 50 free (or nearly free) things to do this summer. Check them off as you go!

• Take a hike in Wilderness Park — count the different types of living creatures you see.

• Enjoy a picnic at Holmes Lake.

• Go to Hub & Soul! Fridays: Jun. 30, Jul. 28, Aug. 25, and Sept. 29.

• Go on a walk and pick up trash.

• Hopscotch.

• Catch lightning bugs.

• Go camping in your backyard.

• Have a water fight.

• Fly a kite.

• Make s’mores.

• Ride your bike — don’t forget your helmet!

• Start a garden.

• Plan an outdoor movie night.

• Visit the Haymarket Farmer’s Market.

• Write a letter to a grandparent or teacher.

• Sign up for the Lincoln City Libraries Summer Reading Program.

• Read a book outside.

• Climb a tree.Go stargazing.

• Find a place to volunteer your time (shelters, libraries, picking up litter, helping a neighbor, etc.)

• Visit the State Capitol.

• Put on your swimsuit and head to Trago Park.

• Make a time capsule.

• Plan a family game night — invite your neighbors!

• Book swap: Have your friends drop off their gently-used books to swap for the books you no longer use. Or donate them to a Little Free Library.

• Make a musical instrument with items in your home.

• Go to the City’s Uncle Sam Jam at Oak Lake on July 3.

• Value Tuesdays at Marcus Theatres.

• Ride your bike at Star City BMX Track (Open for use except during Wednesday night practice and Sunday Races).

• Create sidewalk chalk art.

• Play in the sprinkler.

• Take your dog for a walk (if you have one).

• Visit Hyde Memorial Observatory or Branched Oak Observatory.

• Visit Pioneers Park Nature Center.

• Make pudding popsicles.

• Go on a neighborhood scavenger hunt.

• Play with bubbles.

• Jump rope.

• Go on a Lincoln mural art walk.

• Make a birdfeeder.

• Feed ducks at a park.

• Paint rocks with positive messages then place them around your neighborhood.

• Eat watermelon.

• Call a grandparent.

• Go geocaching.

• Volunteer to play games with residents at a care center or assisted living facility.

• Make a card for a neighbor.

• Go to a county fair.

• Go frisbee golfing at Beal Slough Disc Golf.

• Choose your own adventure: _______________________________.