Activities/Year-Round Family Fun

Year-Round Family Fun

Instead of moaning, “I really should spend more time with my family” plan a year’s worth of activities ahead of time. It’s not as hard as it sounds. Once the list is made, all you have to do is carry out the ideas.
On a day when you have some peace and quiet (does such a day exist?), come up with fifty-two family activities. If you need ideas, just look through this book! They don’t have to be elaborate or expensive. You’ll then give your children a packet with fifty-two slips of paper, each listing something to do.
Pick a day each week when a child selects one slip of paper. Then decide when during the week that event will take place. Perhaps the activity is, “Go out for ice cream sundaes,” or, “Build a birdhouse together.” Other ideas are:

• Get $1.00 each to spend at the video arcade.
• Play hide-and-seek as a family.
• Stay up extra late on the weekend.
• Pick out your favorite dessert from the deli.
• Go on a bike ride.
• Go bowling.


Children know that every week for an entire year, you’ll do at least one fun thing together...and probably many more!