Spend time with your family!
If you take time to do something memorable with your family, everyone benefits!
Sometimes the most memorable things are those that require working through conflict or differing opinions. This means it's OKAY that not all family activities go smoothly and someone may storm off in tears! Use these activities to work together and communicate about opinions and ideas, so it's a bit easier when it comes to conflict involving the bigger stuff!
- Go on a camping trip in your family room
- Roast marshmallows in the backyard or over the stove
- Play games in the tent, etc.
- Scavenger hunt for recipe ingredients to make a treat
- Plan as two teams, hide ingredients for the other team and have a relay who can make their recipe the fastest
- Surprise kids by leading them to the first clue and then make the surprise treat as a family
- Build something together
- Could be as simple as a fort, or something more intricate, such as a sandbox
- Build an "I Spy" together, take a picture of it, and write a rhyme of things to find in it!
- Could have a theme, such as kids' toys, foods, household items, etc.
- Have a family Olympics on teams (not too competitive!)
- Pick a couple games to do that require working together as a team, which will build family ties rather than possibly strain them with competition
- Make a music video together
- A kid's song, church song, pop song, or a parody...make it fun and involve all family members in the planning!
- Plan a dream vacation together
- Decide on a country or state and then let each person research what one thing they would want to do. Share them all and keep a record for the future!
- Create a new game together and invite other people to your home to try it out with you
- Give people of various ages different responsibilities, such as coloring cards for the draw pile or cutting something out
- Try to make a homemade kite (or a couple) and find a place to try and fly them
- There are various instructions on the internet, so find one you like, and if you have the stuff, make it. If not, go get the stuff and make it that day or for another activity!
- Make something out of paper mache and paint it
- Maybe a puppet (using an empty, upside-down tennis ball container
- Maybe a vase or decoration
- A "modern" sculpture
- Anything!
- Build bridges or buildings out of toothpicks and small marshmallows.
- Work in teams or all as one team to see how much weight it can hold
- If your family is too competitive, you may want to skip the weight-bearing competition.
- Be a TOURIST in the area you live.
- Research museums, free days, hikes, outdoor destinations, factory tours, public buildings, festivals, state parks, etc.
- Plan a trip to one of these places as if you were visiting your town as a tourist
- Go on vacation for a night
- Choose a country and do a themed night from there...
- Food from that country, a movie or game from that culture, and family ties to that country, cultural festivals or activities you could re-enact, etc. and dessert from there!
- Play "Minute to Win it"
- Click the "Minute to Win It" tab at the top of the page!
- You can all work together trying to get the best time (if you don't want to get too competitive)
- Watch old family videos or look through picture albums
- If people have stories about the videos or pictures, tell them (or even record them) and have a nice stroll down memory lane
- Mystery Shopping Dinner
- Give everyone $5 and head to the grocery store
- People independently and secretly pick out something for $5 or less and buy it
- Come home and see what weird collection of things you're having for dinner!
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