DD16 activity ideas - not interested in sports

[SunnySideUK77]

I have two daughters (16 and 13) who get in great but have very different interests. Younger DD participated in a sport at a high level whereas older DD isn’t into sports at all. Totally fine.
i do think she’d benefit from having another outlet though - especially to help her weather any friend drama or as a change of scene from revision.

Can anyone suggest and clubs etc that might take her fancy? She enjoys walking, movies and reading and of course her phone! I’m sure there is something out there for her :-)

Would she be interested in any art or craft related things? Pottery, dress making, jewellery making, painting, crochet seems to be quite in vogue again.

Drama. Find a youth theatre (not one of the franchises) and see how she gets on. There's always loads to do apart from acting, and it's perfect for extending her friendship group. But to be honest, I do think you might have missed the boat a bit at 16. Has she any ideas of her own?

Explorer Scouts or Rangers (the older section of Guiding)?

Although at 16 I think it's really up to her if she wants to do anything.

I think it will be difficult to force a new activity on her at 16 as well.

Can you suggest volunteering some where?

Or a part time job?

I have a 16 year old and to be honest unless they are really into something they all tend to drop a lot of hobbies at this age.

DD was doing drama but has stopped that now. She helps out with Beavers as a young leader but to be honest she is in first year of 6th form and has a lot of coursework etc along with a saturday job she doesnt really have time as also wants to socialise/go to gigs etc. She does stuff on her own like sewing, photography etc.

Yes she is quite arty and loves doing Textiles. Would be great if she could learn to do more dress-making x

Yes thanks all, I certainly wouldn’t force anything on her and she doesn’t do anything she doesn’t want to!
thanks for the suggestions. I think volunteering would be a good option maybe.

If you're rural, look into young farmers

I found friends from the other schools in town when I started a part time job. I'm friends with some of them now decades later. I worked for a large diy chain and genuinely really enjoyed it, plus the cash came in handy. I'm not saying "get a job", but it's just an idea. Perhaps a craft supply store, or something in her interest.

parkrun - they can run/walk and volunteer

DD does drama and Explorers where she is also a Young Leader.

We have a club locally who does offer dressmaking classes for teens, they are very popular, so it's worth investigating. There are also classes for photography, potterly, painting etc.

But - we found that 6th form is also very work intensive. Lots of DD's friends also have PT jobs.

I recently took up dressmaking and there is a teen class which looks great.