Free or Nearly Free Activities - Part 3

Constructive activities

Start a flower or veggie garden. Get advice from where you buy your seeds on what grows best for your area and climate. If you live in a apartment, you can start a potted garden of herbs etc that you can put on the balcony or by a window.

Look online or dig amongst your cooking books to make something new. Look at the ingredients as a guide to whether you might like it or not.

Get a book on drawing from the library and sketch items in your house or neighborhood.

Download a free music-making program for your computer and experiment with it. Some good ones are here.

Start up your own website. Learn HTML here or if you don't want to learn code and just want to design use this graphical web editor NUV. And here, here and here (note for this one you'll have to create a yahoo account) are a few of the many free web hosts.

Start your own blog with wordpress or blogger.

Educate yourself with a free online course - here's a good place to start.

Practice origami. Go to the library and get out a book on it. You can make the objects from any paper like old magazine pages or junk mail.