Kind of hard to find absolutely free activities, if you've exhausted museums, parks and outdoorsy things like hiking/biking. But there are lots of stuff to do that only cost a little, like the dollar movies out on east Washington Street. My 16-year-old boy likes to go to Broad Ripple for coffee. You could try something new at an ethnic bakery (Merry's Bakery has a great variety of Hispanic treats and is inexpensive). You could go thrift shopping and see what treasures you can find for $5 at a Goodwill thrift shop. You could browse around Saraga International Grocery and pick out some interesting international food or even candy to try (a visit to Saraga is like a field trip). Stop in for bubble tea (my teenager loved it) at Saigon restaurant, a little Vietnamese place on Lafayette Road. You could go to unusual stores just to look; my kids like to browse around pet shops even if we aren't buying anything; it's just fun to look at animals like ferrets and iguanas that you don't see every day.
Kind of hard to find absolutely free activities, if you've exhausted museums, parks and outdoorsy things like hiking/biking. But there are lots of stuff to do that only cost a little, like the dollar movies out on east Washington Street. My 16-year-old boy likes to go to Broad Ripple for coffee. You could try something new at an ethnic bakery (Merry's Bakery has a great variety of Hispanic treats and is inexpensive). You could go thrift shopping and see what treasures you can find for $5 at a Goodwill thrift shop. You could browse around Saraga International Grocery and pick out some interesting international food or even candy to try (a visit to Saraga is like a field trip). Stop in for bubble tea (my teenager loved it) at Saigon restaurant, a little Vietnamese place on Lafayette Road. You could go to unusual stores just to look; my kids like to browse around pet shops even if we aren't buying anything; it's just fun to look at animals like ferrets and iguanas that you don't see every day.