• Have a reading marathon.
    • Write stories together.
    • Play soccer.
    • Paint or draw together.
    • Create a fort in your living room out of blankets or cardboard boxes.
    • Go on a hike.
    • Have a sunset picnic at a park or beach.
    • Play board games.
    • Play kickball.
    • Get up early, pack breakfast, and have a sunrise breakfast.
    • Go to a museum.
    • Go to a playground.
    • Play hide-and-seek.
    • Have a pillow fight.
    • Ride bikes.
    • Build sandcastles.
    • Rent a dvd and make popcorn.
    • Tell stories.
    • Have a scavenger hunt.
    • Make mazes or puzzles for each other to solve.
    • Play card games.
    • Garden together.
    • Bake cookies (let the kids help).
    • Go to the zoo.
    • Go to the library.
    • Shop at a thrift shop.
    • Create a blog together.
    • Create a scrapbook.
    • Make a movie using a camcorder and computer.
    • Learn to play music.
    • Fingerpaint.
    • Make play dough from scratch.
    • Make homemade mini pizzas.
    • Buy popsicles.
    • Make hand-painted T-shirts.
    • Set up a hammock, make lemonade, relax.
    • Go to a pool.
    • Go to a public place, people watch, and make up imaginary stories about people.
    • Visit family.
    • Write letters to family.
    • Paint or decorate the kids’ room.
    • Make milkshakes.
    • Play freeze tag.
    • Create a treasure hunt for them (leaving clues around the house or yard).
    • Decorate a pair of jeans.
    • Do a science experiment.
    • Play games online.
    • Teach them to play chess.
    • Learn magic tricks.
    • Create a family book, with information and pictures about each family member.
    • Fly kites.
    • Go snorkeling.
    • Barbecue.
    • Volunteer.
    • Donate stuff to charity.
    • Compete in a three-legged or other race.
    • Create an obstacle course.
    • Pitch a tent and sleep outside with marshmallows.
    • Roast marshmallows.
    • Play loud music and dance crazy.
    • Write and produce a play (to perform before other family members).
    • Paint each other’s faces.
    • Have a water balloon fight.
    • Have a gun-fight with those foam dart guns.
    • Explore your yard and look for insects.
    • Go for a walk and explore the neighborhood.
    • Go jogging.
    • Take pictures of nature.
    • Play a trivia game.
    • Make up trivia questions about each other.
    • Make hot cocoa.
    • Play house.
    • Decorate the house with decorations you make.
    • Make popsicles.
    • Play school.
    • Do shadow puppets.
    • Make a comic book.
    • Play in the rain.
    • Make mud pies.
    • Blow bubbles.
    • Take turns saying tongue twisters.
    • Sing songs.
    • Tell ghost stories in the dark with a flashlight.
    • Build stuff with Legos.
    • Give them a bubble bath.
    • Play with squirt guns.
    • Play video games together.
    • Play wiffleball.
    • Play nerf football.
    • Build a rocket from a kit.
    • Bake a cake and decorate it.
    • Play dress-up.
    • Thumb-wrestle, play mercy, or have a tickle fight.
    • Make a gingerbread house, or decorate gingerbread men.
    • Learn and tell each other jokes.
    • Play basketball.
    • Learn to juggle.
    • Walk barefoot in the grass and pick flowers.
    • Build paper airplanes and have a flying contest.
    • Prank call their grandparents, using disguised, humorous voices.
jul 13 2010 ∞
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