With the holiday season coming up, it’s a great time to express your creativity as a family and start making holiday decorations. For Halloween, for example, you can cut bats out of black construction paper, make ghosts out of tissue paper, and so on. There are tons of sites...
We’ve recently started a tradition in our family of a once a month silly dinner night. It got started because the kids were so tired of being told to mind their table manners, so we declared one night a month to be freer (not completely free) than usual from...
You probably enjoyed making paper airplanes as a kid. Why not go at it again with the whole family? If you don’t remember how to fold a paper airplanes, there are online instructions to make a variety of planes, from simple to more complex. It’s also a great way...
It’s that time of year again. The kids are heading back to school, or maybe off to school for the very first time. Rather than suggest a new activity this week, I’m going to say look at the things you meant to get done as a family over the...
Free Fun Fridays are back! Plan a family treasure hunt. The parents or one of the older kids can write clues or draw a map, and set things up. Everyone else gets to try to find the treasure. If one of the kids is hiding the remote control, you...