Family Night

Whether you’re looking for a Family Night activity indoors, outdoors, or one that takes you away, here are some great ideas to get you started.

Indoor Activities:

• Have a family slumber party.
• Build a fort.
• Get out the family photo albums.
• Research your family history.
• Clean the house together.
• Make a collage out of pictures from old/unused magazines.
• Draw pictures of members of your family. (and possibly hang them up!)
• Make a family calendar.
• Write letters to grandparents or a pen-pal.
• Tell scary stories (with the lights out).
• Learn to play the guitar together.
• Organize a 72 hour kit.
• Learn sign language.
• Take treats to your neighbors or friends.
• Learn about a different culture and make a meal based on it.
• Do a rain dance.
• Create a family budget and plan for a vacation.
• Start a family collection. (coins, stories, rocks, treasures).
• Talk about the dangers of drugs/alcohol.
• Have a craft night – sewing, painting, etc.

Outdoor Activities:

• Wash the dog. (A neighbor’s dog if you don’t have one!)
• Play stickball.
• Play hopscotch. (and you’re never too old to play)
• Fly kites.
• Snow in your area? Go sledding and/or make a snowman.
• Set up a lemonade stand on a warm day.
• Shoot hoops together. Play H.O.R.S.E or Around the world.
• Tell stories around a campfire. (Or a BBQ?)
• Organize a game of capture the flag.
• Play freeze-tag.
• Play broom ball.
• Go for a hike.
• Go for a bike ride (or roller blade) together.
• Organize a community clean-up.
• Learn how to use a compass.
• Learn how to Geocache.
• Plant a tree or some flowers or a garden.
• Go swimming – and learn a new stroke.
• Go on a long drive – explore your city/outdoors.
• Get some sleeping bags and have a star gazing evening.
• Go fishing.
• Play touch football.
• Climb a tree.
• Make some smores around a campfire.

Places to go

• Go to your local zoo.
• Visit local community and/or parks.
• Visit the Genealogical library.
• Make up a play and take it to a nursing home.
• Go get ice cream.
• Attend a community concert.
• Visit your local library.
• Go to a meuseum.
• Go dancing or learn to dance from a local college/group.
• Go to a baseball/basketball/football game.

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