Weekend Activity Ideas For The Family
Family activities provide the perfect opportunity for bonding and are highly encouraged; the problem with most families is that they're always at a loss when it comes to deciding on the type of activities to fill in their weekends. Below I explore a couple of family activity ideas that are both exciting and fun. These ideas should be sufficient to keep your family busy.
1. Contact the community center in your area and find the activity offering
2. Visit a museum, a zoo or nature conservancy center
3. Clean the dog (You could also volunteer to wash neighbors pet if you don't own one)
4. Put up slumber party for the family
5. Construct a fort together
6. View the family album together
7. Research your genealogy
8. Play family games, hopscotch or stickball are good ideas
9. Do general cleaning together
10. Make up a skit and present it a home of the elderly
11. Go kite flying
12. Go on a historical odyssey/ family excursion
13. During winter sledding and snowman construction should suffice
14. Engage your artistic selves with papier-machie projects
15. Have fun while making some money by setting up a juice stand, this is ideal in summer
16. Get down and dirty with paint and brush & do some work together
17. Create a family calendar
18. Do barbecue & share stories around a bonfire
19. Compete designing paper aircrafts
20. Design miniature cruisers
21. Write and send letter to grannies
22. Go hiking
23. Tell gothic stories, better with lights out
24. Go ridding together
25. Buy ice-cream and take a stroll in the church grounds
26. Take guitar or piano lessons together
27. Stretch a soft rug, switch off the lights, lie down together and play some classical music then take turns sharing what it sounds like
28. Attend local concerts and bands
29. Mobilize others for a communal clean up work
30. Visit an antique
31. Do roller skating together
32. Paint a picture together - compete together
33. Learn something new together; a compass, sign language, Morse code or the metric system
34. Go tree planting in the public park
35. Take a family swimming day out
36. Go nature watching
37. Take the family dog on a stroll in the park
38. Bake cookies, buns or cakes together
39. Go on a city tour in a bus
40. Invite neighbors kids over for a snack
41. Compose stories together
42. Fill a Sudoku, a codeword or a crossword together
43. Organize a family dance
44. Organize a treasure hunt
45. Draft a family budget, grocery list
46. Go golfing together
47. Watch a movie together
48. Adopt a grandpa or a grandma from the nursing home
49. Organize a family campfire
50. Organize a family baking contest
51. Organize a bubble contest
52. Organize testimony meetings
53. Establish coins, stamps or antique collection
54. Prepare a family generation chart; this can be facilitated by an older member of the family
55. Organize role plays, could be about drugs
56. Organize home repair activities and involve the girls too
57. Take first aid lessons together; this can be organized with the fire department
58. Organize a patriotic evening or an etiquette night
59. Go picnicking in the park, carry balls, umbrellas & camera
60. Learn about a different culture
61. Watch Sundowner together
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