Great Ideas for Family Fun
■Go to a local high school football, basketball or any other game.
■Take the kids on a mystery trip. Give them clues about your destination as you get closer. It can be something as simple as an ice cream shop or playground, or a trip to a museum or amusement park.
■Put on a family play.
■Let your children prepare a meal and serve it to you and your husband restaurant style.
■Plant flowers (indoors in a flower pot or outside).
■Get to know the family of one of your child's friends by having the family over for a cookout.
■Let your kids take photos, print them, and make a photo album — then have the kids think of captions.
■Have a fun, free scavenger hunt.
■Go to a park and take some pictures of landscapes. Develop the pictures, get out the paints and try to paint landscapes by looking at the pictures.
■Have an indoor picnic somewhere other than the kitchen.
■For girls: have a spa hour — paint each other's nails, do your hair, let them put makeup on you.
■Build an obstacle course and let each family member compete for the best time.
■Have a garage sale and let your kids decide how to spend the proceeds on a family day.
■Plan a secret surprise for someone in need. For example, cook a meal for someone or mow their lawn, without them knowing who did it.
■Build a fort together.
■Let the kids help you paint their room. Let them pick out the paint color. (It might get them to actually clean it first!)
■Play board games. (They don't have to be as long and complicated as Killer Bunnies: Journey to Jupiter - pictured above.)
■Do a craft (make up your own or a buy a craft kit). Bake cookies, bread or a cake — from scratch.
■Let your children design a family crest.
■Go ice skating or roller skating.
Read a good book together.
■Go to a local high school football, basketball or any other game.
■Take the kids on a mystery trip. Give them clues about your destination as you get closer. It can be something as simple as an ice cream shop or playground, or a trip to a museum or amusement park.
■Put on a family play.
■Let your children prepare a meal and serve it to you and your husband restaurant style.
■Plant flowers (indoors in a flower pot or outside).
■Get to know the family of one of your child's friends by having the family over for a cookout.
■Let your kids take photos, print them, and make a photo album — then have the kids think of captions.
■Have a fun, free scavenger hunt.
■Go to a park and take some pictures of landscapes. Develop the pictures, get out the paints and try to paint landscapes by looking at the pictures.
■Have an indoor picnic somewhere other than the kitchen.
■For girls: have a spa hour — paint each other's nails, do your hair, let them put makeup on you.
■Build an obstacle course and let each family member compete for the best time.
■Have a garage sale and let your kids decide how to spend the proceeds on a family day.
■Plan a secret surprise for someone in need. For example, cook a meal for someone or mow their lawn, without them knowing who did it.
■Build a fort together.
■Let the kids help you paint their room. Let them pick out the paint color. (It might get them to actually clean it first!)
■Play board games. (They don't have to be as long and complicated as Killer Bunnies: Journey to Jupiter - pictured above.)
■Do a craft (make up your own or a buy a craft kit). Bake cookies, bread or a cake — from scratch.
■Let your children design a family crest.
■Go ice skating or roller skating.
Read a good book together.
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