Can’t get enough of our fun, family friendly (and often FREE!) ideas? Well, you’re in luck! We’ve got six more of them for you! Check them out:
Make your own pizzas. Go shopping for fresh ingredients and yummy toppings like basil, herbs, sauce, cheese, pepperoni, mushrooms, peppers and pineapples. Then challenge kids to make mini-homemade pizzas in five minutes or less. They’ll be saying “mmm” and “mama mia” before they even finish their first slice.
Take a daytrip. Extend the family fun and plan a daytrip. Rev up your engine at Maple Grove Raceway, color your way through the Crayola Factory, leave your mark at the Hands-On House or have a swimmingly good time at one of the nearby aquariums. Instead of saying “Are we there yet?” your kids will be repeatedly asking, “When can we go back?”
Host a yard sale. Need a fun, easy way to get kids to clean up? Have them round up the toys, books and clothes they no longer want and host a yard sale on the front lawn. Instead of spending the proceeds, ask kids to select a charity or organization and donate the money.
Decorate T-shirts. Visit a craft or fabric store, grab materials (ideas include safety pins, beads, glitter, tie-die, paint and bright-colored duct tape), and encourage your kids to release their inner fashionistas by decorating T-shirts. Once done, host a sidewalk fashion show so kids can strut their stuff and show off their custom creations.
Craft day. Set up a trio of stations with craft projects, such as decorating foam door hangers or bite-size cupcakes, making birdhouses or funny face switch plates, painting lampshades or flower pots or designing placemats or jewelry. Have kids rotate through each station, and by lunchtime, they’ll have a crafty collection to call their own.
Do random acts of kindness. Teach your kids the importance of kindness by asking them to come up with a random act the entire family can participate in. Ideas include delivering flowers to an elderly neighbor, drawing get-well cards for ill children at the hospital, dropping a treat on their friend’s doorstep or leaving a quarter in the gumball machine at the supermarket.
