So, it is the middle of July...summer vacation is half over, and the kids are bored. What do you do? Get the family together with a decorative jar, strips of 1"x 3" paper, and your imaginations. Brainstorm together to create a family fun jar with activities that involve everyone in the family. Then, once a week draw a strip of paper from the jar and have some family fun.
Here's a list of activities to get you started:
- Have a progressive dinner...with each course at a different fast food restaurant.
- Go out for ice cream
- Do a jigsaw puzzle together
- Trade places...have the kids be the parents for an evening
- Go miniature golfing
- Shovel the neighbors driveway together
- Bake and decorate cookies...and then take them to a local nursing home
- Plan a family picnic...in the back yard
- Catch fireflies
- Go to the airport to watch the planes land
- Make homemade ice cream
- Blow bubbles when the temperature dips below freezing (They freeze!)
- Have a Make Your Own Pizza night with English muffins and lots of toppings
- Camp out in the back yard
3 comments:
Some really great tips! Thanks for sharing, and thanks for stopping by my blog. (I'm here with my blogger account but my blog has moved to: www.flutterbygifts.com/blog)
I read a blog called The Simple Dollar, and today he wrote about things to do on a "Money Free Weekend." Some of my favorites were having a yard sale, volunteering your time, taking a wandering walk, taking photographs, and learning to juggle (haha). See the whole post at http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/07/20/fifteen-more-free-things-to-do-during-a-money-free-weekend/
Jaime
Thanks for the link to The Simple Dollar! I'll have to check it out regularly!
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