• LIYM free monthly activities

• Make & fill your own outing bag.

Use a bag you actually make or an old backpack.  Fill with stuff you can take with you each time you go out; Frisbee, tennis ball, a Slinky, baseball mitt & ball, snacks, plastic bags to collect stuff, magnifying glass, compass, binoculars, a journal of your activities or special events…what ever you might use when you go out together.

• LIYM Ministry Center

Basketball, fooz ball, ping-pong, board games, cooking

• Check the local paper for free admission activities.

• Recycle bottles & cans.

Save the money you collect to do something special or to fund your activities.

• Teach each other something you’re really good at.

• Role-play how to handle important situations – general courtesies (shaking hands, introductions, etc), a job interview, a meeting they are nervous about going to, how to ask for help at school, how to say no to friends when they feel pressured

• Volunteer 1x a month someplace (nursing home, soup kitchen, your church, seniors in the neighborhood, etc)

• Make a gratitude list & add to it periodically.

• Participate in a walk a thon or run together.

• Make a time capsule to open in 1yr or 5yrs or 10yrs. You can make 2 & bury it in both of your back yards.

• Bargain Hunt – take $5 each & go to a garage sale or thrift shop and see who can find the coolest and most useful purchases.

• Redo something you enjoyed before.

• Make your own favorite Low Cost – No Cost Activity list and share it with us so we can pass it on!!