Here is a list of 100 different activities to do with your family.
Don't forget to take PICTURES!!
1. Take a bicycle trip.
2. Make homemade ice cream or visit an ice cream parlor.
3. Bake a double batch of cookies and deliver one to the local fire/police station or local food bank.
4. Go to a lake and watch the boats, while you have a picnic.
5. Go on a breakfast picnic.
6. Go to a park and hike or climb trees.
7. Make caramel corn.
8. Make SNOW ICE CREAM Recipe HERE
9. Head to the lake to swim, rent a paddle boat or canoe.
10. Plan a scavenger hunt- inside or out.
11. Bake plain sugar cookies and let each member of the family take part in decorating them. Or make and decorate a cake - just for the fun of it.
12. Make playdoh and sculpt objects or people (even from Bible stories). Recipes HERE
13. Read a good book aloud.
14. Look through old photo albums or view family slides, movies, or videos.
15. Play miniature golf or croquet. Set up a course inside if its too cold out.
16. Write a letter or draw a picture and send via "snail mail" to a friend or relative.
17. Make a "birthday flag" for the next upcoming birthday.
18. Go fishing.
20. Work on a jigsaw puzzle.
21. Go roller skating or ice skating.
22. Make family silhouettes. Use a slide projector or a bright lamp to project the head profile on a blank wall. Hold paper against the wall and trace the silhouette. Cut out and glue it on a contrasting sheet of paper or poster board.
23. Have a candy treasure hunt.
24. Work on a crossword puzzle or MAKE your own crossword puzzle for someone.
25. Visit the library, check the events going on there sometimes there are storytimes, craft hours and FREE movies playing.
26. Provide old magazines, scissors and glue. Pick a theme for your collage (families, God's creations, things to be thankful for, etc.). Everyone cuts out pictures and glues them onto a large piece of paper or poster board.
27. Go to the flea market or bright and early one Saturday morning or garage sales and see who can come home with the best bargain for a dollar.
28. Have a family talent show. EVERYONE must participate!
29. Make plaster of Paris hand prints. Put name, year and age on the back.
30. Make a family banner. The banner should be made of felt or the flag fabric found in fabric stores.
31. Go to the zoo.
32. Go bowling.
33. Make your own homemade pizza. Add mushrooms, peppers, onions, black olives and crushed pineapple to the pizza sauce and cheese. You can use pita bread as crust for individual pizzas.
34. Invite another family over for a ice cream sundae & game night.
36. Plant some flowers in flower pots and deliver them to older people or shut-ins in your neighborhood.
37. Make a collage using seeds, rice, cereal, old buttons and sewing scraps.
38. Catch fireflies together, put them in a jar and watch them light up. Let them go.
39. Learn a new craft together - wood burning, sewing, painting, building w/ wood.
40. String popcorn and place on a tree for the birds.
41. Write the words and music to a chorus together.
42. Make puppets out of lunch bags, old socks, felt, wooden clothespins. Put on a puppet show.
43. Have a bonfire outdoors or in your fireplace and roast hot dogs and marshmallows.
44. Make a family newsletter, include traditions, pictures a fun "articles" written by the kids.
45. Visit a shut-in or an elderly friend or relative in a nursing home.
46. Pick wild flowers and press some of them to save.
47. Read a Psalm together. Then write a psalm of praise for your own family.
48. Play "I think you're nice because..." Someone thinks of a quality he likes in the person who's "it." Other family members try to guess by asking, "Does it begin with an "A?" and so forth.
49. Make your own family radio drama story. Tape/record your family acting out a favorite Bible story complete with background sounds effects.
50. Share prayer requests that affect and concern the whole family, then pray about them.
51. Get out the paint and paper and make paintings to decorate a certain area of the house with.
52. Interview each family member, come up with fun (and serious) questions. What animal would you like to be? What are you most scared of? What is a hero?
53. Encourage little ones to color a picture to send to grandparents, older kids can write a letter.
54. Go geocaching. (www.geocaching.com) Scavenger hunt w/ GPS.
55. Build a village using blocks, Lincoln logs or Legos. Get out the matchbox cars!
56. Enjoy a shopping trip for something little, but fun---a jar of bubbles, stickers, paper dolls, a matchbox car.
57. Play "20 Questions." One person chooses a Bible character or object to be guessed. The other members of the family take turns guessing what the secret object or person might be. No more than 20 questions can be asked and each one must be able to be answered with a simple yes or no. Whoever guesses first becomes "It" for the next round. Good for car trips too.
58. Visit a farm. Milk a cow, help to feed the animals. Take pictures.
59. Play badminton, volleyball, tennis, Frisbee, yard darts or ping pong.
60. Take the kids on a tour of where Dad works.
61. Play hide-and-seek (inside or outside).
62. Play "Bible Verse Scramble." One person chooses a favorite Bible verse and writes each word on a separate piece of paper. Scramble the order of the words and challenge each member of the family to see who can put it together the fastest. It could be one the family has memorized together.
63. Go camping in the backyard, basement, or dining room. Cook breakfast on the grill.
64. Draw a family tree on paper and complete it as a family. Add old photographs if available.
65. Go jogging or take a walk together. Make it a "night walk".
66. Give each person a large piece of paper and take turns tracing the outlines of their bodies on it. Color in the outlines to look like you.
67. Using white shelf paper or the inside of brown grocery bags, design your own wrapping paper with crayons, magic markers or paints--even potato prints.
68. Rearrange the furniture in the kids rooms. Let them help and give input of where they would like their things.
69. Thumb wrestle, play mercy or have a tickle fight.
70. Write a letter to a missionary family. Your children could write to a missionary's child his own age.
71.Plant a window garden. Use seeds, dirt and paper cups.
72. Make candy or caramel apples.
73. Fly a kite!
74. Jump rope.
75. Take pictures of all the houses in your neighborhood, then arrange the houses on a large poster board and identify the people living in the houses. Write their addresses and phone numbers at each house too.
76. Visit a friend.
77. Have a "pioneer day", see if you can go without electricity for a day.
78. Make paper airplanes.
79. Put together a scrapbook describing a favorite vacation or any special event (pictures, writing, souvenirs).
80. Rake up a big pile of leaves to jump and play in. If it's warm outside, turn on the water sprinkler and run through it.
81. Do a science experiment together. Check out a book at the library or check online.
82. Pick apples and make apple sauce together.
83. Gather seashells,bugs, leaves, rocks, or flowers. Mount and identify.
84. Make snowflakes out of lightweight white paper and hang from the ceiling with thread.
85. Create a traveling friendship basket. Fill an inexpensive basket with baked goodies, crafts, coupons, and so forth. Pass it on to a friend. Leave a note in the basket, directing it to be passed on (within the week) to someone else who could use some cheer.
86. Go to a ball game or play one---football, kickball, softball, baseball, basketball, soccer.
87. Finger paint chocolate pudding.
88. Go sledding.
89. Have a water balloon fight or snowball fight.
90. Take a trip to an amusement park, local factory, a museum or a planetarium.
91. Have a inside picnic. Watch a favorite movie while eating dinner.
92. Set a Bible verse to a familiar tune and learn both the verse and song as a family.
93. Write and record an interview with a Bible character.
94. Build a tree house or fort - outside or inside with blankets.
95. Go horseback riding.
96. Learn a new game - chess, checkers, card game or how to juggle.
97. Build a robot out of empty boxes of all shapes and sizes. Oatmeal and salt boxes work well.
98. Work together on a model kit.
99. Make milkshakes or fruit smoothies.
100. Play with sand toys and trucks in a sandbox or at the beach. Have a sandcastle making contest.
67. Using white shelf paper or the inside of brown grocery bags, design your own wrapping paper with crayons, magic markers or paints--even potato prints.
68. Rearrange the furniture in the kids rooms. Let them help and give input of where they would like their things.
69. Thumb wrestle, play mercy or have a tickle fight.
70. Write a letter to a missionary family. Your children could write to a missionary's child his own age.
71.Plant a window garden. Use seeds, dirt and paper cups.
72. Make candy or caramel apples.
73. Fly a kite!
74. Jump rope.
75. Take pictures of all the houses in your neighborhood, then arrange the houses on a large poster board and identify the people living in the houses. Write their addresses and phone numbers at each house too.
76. Visit a friend.
77. Have a "pioneer day", see if you can go without electricity for a day.
78. Make paper airplanes.
79. Put together a scrapbook describing a favorite vacation or any special event (pictures, writing, souvenirs).
80. Rake up a big pile of leaves to jump and play in. If it's warm outside, turn on the water sprinkler and run through it.
81. Do a science experiment together. Check out a book at the library or check online.
82. Pick apples and make apple sauce together.
83. Gather seashells,bugs, leaves, rocks, or flowers. Mount and identify.
84. Make snowflakes out of lightweight white paper and hang from the ceiling with thread.
85. Create a traveling friendship basket. Fill an inexpensive basket with baked goodies, crafts, coupons, and so forth. Pass it on to a friend. Leave a note in the basket, directing it to be passed on (within the week) to someone else who could use some cheer.
86. Go to a ball game or play one---football, kickball, softball, baseball, basketball, soccer.
87. Finger paint chocolate pudding.
88. Go sledding.
89. Have a water balloon fight or snowball fight.
90. Take a trip to an amusement park, local factory, a museum or a planetarium.
92. Set a Bible verse to a familiar tune and learn both the verse and song as a family.
93. Write and record an interview with a Bible character.
94. Build a tree house or fort - outside or inside with blankets.
95. Go horseback riding.
96. Learn a new game - chess, checkers, card game or how to juggle.
97. Build a robot out of empty boxes of all shapes and sizes. Oatmeal and salt boxes work well.
98. Work together on a model kit.
99. Make milkshakes or fruit smoothies.
100. Play with sand toys and trucks in a sandbox or at the beach. Have a sandcastle making contest.
You will not look back and regret the times you set aside yard work, a social event, time on FaceBook or whatever it is, to be with your family. Your kids will have some fun memories that truly, will last a life time...and so will YOU!!
What's YOUR favorite thing to do with your family??
What's YOUR favorite thing to do with your family??
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