What activities to do with a 11- and 12-year-old grandkids?

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Grandkids are coming to visit (11 and 12 years old). Any suggestions on what to do. TYIA!!!
Ours that age really liked Gator Land. We've done several of the "biggies", like a stay at Disney and all the Disney parks, but that's a pricey option to do over and over. So, we took them to Gator Land, reasonable entrance with Florida resident option, and they 10 and 12 year old LEARNED and great deal about gators and crocks which they had only previously seen in a zoo briefly.
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Silver Springs State Park in Ocala; glass bottom boat tours.
Silver Springs was another very reasonably priced outing ours really enjoyed, along with another day visit to Gator Land visit.
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Just let get on their iPhone or iPad, They come now attached to umbilical cord now! Disney for about 15 separate park charges. You can play tennis, pickleball, basketball, platform tennis, billiards, bocce, shuffleboard, baseball when league’s are done, swamp boat ride near, village summer camp, take in movie if can get them to stay off iPhone for hour.
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If interested in Camp Villages, here's the PDF brochure:

https://www.districtgov.org/departme...2%20lowres.pdf

Make sure you register in time for any specific activity, they don't accept "walk-ins."
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take them to orlando for some axe throwing , whats the worst that could happen???? and i think they may have some chain saws to.
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take them to orlando for some axe throwing , whats the worst that could happen???? and i think they may have some chain saws to.
Sounds like fun
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take them to orlando for some axe throwing , whats the worst that could happen???? and i think they may have some chain saws to.
There are rage rooms in ORL but like your suggestion, 11or 12 may be an obstacle. International Drive has a ton to do for that demo. Not too far and if you don’t want to drop the kings ransom at a WDW park....it’s not a bad consolation. Pretty decent food for kids down there as well
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Shooters World would be great too
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take them to orlando for some axe throwing , whats the worst that could happen???? and i think they may have some chain saws to.

Yahoo, chainsaw juggling..
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Give them a book of matches and tell then to go play upstairs.
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There is an escape room in Wildwood. I FLY in Orlando. First Responders has putt golf and a game room. Closer to home, we did a scavenger hunt in Sumter Landing and a night time with flashlights small gift hunt. But mostly they love the pool and golf cart. We took a golf cart ride to Fenney and had a picnic in the back and then walked the trail to see turtles and gators. Stopped on the way back for ice cream at Peachwave (yogurt), Scooples, or Haagen Daas.
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Yahoo, chainsaw juggling..
Stay in the Villages. Take them to any one of our ponds to hunt for baby gators they can take home as pets. πŸ˜πŸ™„πŸ˜‰
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You could always take them for a ride on an alligator.
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