Family Time!

I don't know about you, but sometimes we could use a little inspiration for family times! We want them to be sweet and fun and memorable--not the same ol', same ol'.

Here are some ideas to inspire special bonding times with your family! We encourage you to make "family time" a regular occurrence at your house!

• Build a tent in the living room together
  
• Homemade mini-golf
  
• Pillow fights
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  Coloring contest
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  Blow bubbles
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  Walk on the beach
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  Set a goal to visit every park in your town
  
• Puzzles
  
• Bake cookies together
  
• Shrinky-dinks! (remember those?!)
  
• Make homemade playdough
  
• Bike-riding
  
• Build a tree house or play house together
  
• Wash the cars together (usually turns into a water fight!)
  
• Set pop-corn popper in living room with the top off. See who can catch the flying popcorn in their mouths. (Careful! Unpopped kernels can be hot!)
  
• Board games
  
• Spoil Mommy Day/Spoil Daddy Day
  
• Date nights with Dad
  
• Camping (even in the backyard is fun!)
  
• Candlelight dinners for no reason at all!
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  Tea parties (even for boys!)
  
• Friendly wrestling (even for girls!)
  
• Frisbee
  
• Fly kites
  
• Write, direct and video a mini-movie!
  
• Start a family blog together
  
• Finger painting
  
• Family worship at home
  
• Read aloud
  
• Play hooky from school and go fishing!
  
• Make Valentine’s for all your neighbors and deliver them together.
  
• Visit local museums (Many have at least one free day a month! Call to check!)
  
• Picnic!
  
• Day trip to the snow.
  
• Go to Barnes and Nobles. Buy coffee for parents and vanilla steamers for kids. Sit in the children’s section, read books and giggle.
  
• Bake something for your pastors together.
  
• Sidewalk chalk!
  
• Family movie night.
  
• Learn to make water bombs from paper and drop them off the balcony.
  
• Buy bubble wrap just so you can all pop it together.