1) Family read alouds
2) Crafts
3) Play hide and seek
4) Tea party
5) 50s night
6) Camping inside or backyard
7) Scavenger hunt
8) Charades
9) Spelling Bee
10) Movie night
11) Opposite Day
12) Make bean bags and learn how to juggle
13) Bible Theater
14) Hiking
15) Do good deeds for each other
16) Sprinkler obstacle course
17) Breakfast picnic
18) No electricity day
19) Hawaiian day
20) Baking contest
21) Go get ice cream in pajamas
22) Take a walk. At each corner, flip a coin. If it’s tails, turn left. If heads, turn right. See where you end up.
23) Play freeze tag
24) Chinese day
25) Blow bubbles
26) Make friendship bracelets together
27) Build a fort with blankets and furniture
28) Nature walk—take pictures or sketch items for a nature notebook
29) Draw pictures of each other
30) Bible number game—Someone says a number and everyone has to guess the Bible story they are thinking of with that number
31) Fly a kite
32) Mexican night
33) Play dress up
34) Remove all the breakables from your living area. Put the couch in the center of the room and play volleyball over it.
35) Do a puzzle together
36) Have races
37) Make up a skit and perform
38) Go to the beach and build a sand castle
39) Board games
40) Make a cake and decorate
41) Build a house of cards
42) 70s/Disco night
43) Have a holiday party
44) Have a water fight
45) Brain teasers
46) Listen to an audio book together
47) Play with building toys (Legos, K-nex, wooden blocks)
48) Make a scrapbook page together
49) Card games
50) Make an old family recipe together
51) Decorate cookies
52) Play Twister
53) Tell progressive story-each person gets a turn taking over where the last person left off
54) Go to the park and play football, volleyball, or tennis.
55) Set up a seasonal or holiday table
56) Play Pictionary
57) Karoake
58) Tell jokes
59) Visit Dejongs dairy in Wildomar
60) Have a picnic and walk around
61) or visit one of their more than 70 museums (check out their website for free Tuesdays)
62) Bible trivia
63) Make cards and send to someone who needs encouragement
64) Play the alphabet game—think of a category (foods, animals, books) and take turns naming an item in that category for each letter of the alphabet
65) Get some friends together and do a field trip of a restaurant
66) Play bingo
67) Readers Theater
68) Make ice cream sundaes
69) Ride bikes or roller blade through the neighborhood or at the park
70) Play video games together
71) Paint ceramics—at home or at a ceramics shop like Color Me Mine or Painted Earth
72) Make cards and deliver to a nursing home or children’s hospital
73) Walk through the mall
74) Go see local historical sites and landmarks
75) Have a lemonade stand
76) Write letters to missionaries or family members
77) Have a puppet show. You can make puppets out of mismatched socks or paper bags.
78) Go through old photo albums together
79) Make up carnival type games to do at home
80) Do manicures and pedicures
81) Work on a family blog
82) Go to the Temecula duck pond
83) Paint
84) Make smores in your fireplace or over the stove burners
85) Learn some magic tricks and have a show
86) Go to the library
87) Have a garage sale and let them keep the profits from their items (or donate them to a missionary family)
88) Have a “science fair”. Everyone does a project or experiment and shares
89) Play basketball in your driveway. If you don’t have a hoop, just mark a circle with chalk on the ledge above the garage and use it as a target
90) Work on a big project such as a go-cart or treehouse
91) Make and play with play-doh
92) Have a talent show
93) Play 20 questions
94) Wash the car in bathing suits
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96) Get a how-to book or rent a how-to video for something and learn together
97) Have a sleepover
98) Invite missionaries or foreigners over to talk about the culture of their home country
99) Play musical chairs
100) Go for a ride down the coast
101) Talk about favorite family memories
Cindy Rushton