Family Fun Activities

100 Things to do with your kids before they grow up and leave home!

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Are you looking to have some fun with your family? These days, often the one thing we really need to give our children is our time.

Even when we are homeschooling we can feel pushed for time and overwhelmed. But spending time with our children is a precious gift we can give. But what to do? 

Here are 100 ways to make the most of it and make beautiful memories.

Fun Activities for Kids and Parents

1. Roast marshmallows over the fire
2. Make fire pine cones
3. Light sparklers
4. Carve a pumpkin
5. Decorate Eggs
6. Have a read aloud marathon - read them all their picture books
7. Create a cabinet of curiosities
8. Build a snowman
9. Sail a toy boat
10. Make and fly kites
11. Go fishing
12. Build a Geodesic dome
13. Make a your own pottery kiln
14. Go on a boat or train ride
15. Play in the rain
16. Have supper around an open fire
17. Tell them a ghost story by flashlight
18. Go outside to look at stars - lie on a rug
19. Have a picnic and look at the clouds
20. Do a jigsaw puzzle with them
21. Do colouring in/drawing with them
22. Make a card game
23. Play hopscotch with them
24. Make kaleidoscope pictures
25. Teach them to throw two balls, or skip, or hoola hoop
26. Teach them a game of patience or a new card game
27. Go skinny dipping (go on! I dare you!)
28. Look through photo albums of when they were babies
29. Go to an art gallery
30. Throw a chocolate fondue party
31. Learn something new together
32. Harvest some vegetables or go strawberry picking
33. Bake chocolate chip cookies together - or pancakes, or pizza
34. Take them surprise camping
35. Have a pyjama day
36. Take them out to lunch
37. Face paint them
38. Make shadows on the wall in torchlight
39. Take a trip to a candy shop and let them pick some sweets
40. Splatter paint on an old sheet and hang it on the wall
41. Make homemade clay and have a clay craft session
42. Read them a picture book every day for a month
43. Build a den together
44. Play Pooh sticks
45. Roll down a steep bank
46. Climb a tree
47. Do random acts of kindness
48. Go on a bicycle trip
49. Have breakfast somewhere unusual
50. Make a time capsule
51. Grow a flower
52. Have a race
53. Volunteer
54. Go sledding
55. Make juice pops
56. Catch fireflies or ladybugs
57. Make lanterns and go out in the dark
58. Collect tadpoles
59. Start a kids journal
60. Make a whistle
61. Make snow candy
62. Have a sleepover in the lounge
63. Play cards for sweets
64. Start a family blog
65. Make a stick doll
66. Make a 'day in the life' film
67. Do a guided walk
68. Save your coppers in a moneypot, then spend them together
69. Make some nature art
70. set up a nature table
71. Blow bubbles
72. Make marshmallow models
73. Knit a tag
74. Sketch in a nature journal
75. Make self portraits
76. Make the biggest marble run you can from tubes
77. Set up a family challenge - no TV for a month?
78. Decorate a tree
79. Decorate a room
80. Spend a day without power
81. Make a bow and arrow
82. Have a cultural meal
83. Start a scrapbook
84. Make a gift for someone
85. Send a postcard
86. Have a cherry-pip spitting competition
87. Look for 4 leaf clovers
88. Go geocaching
89. Have a film night complete with popcorn
90. Go to the zoo
91. Make a house of cards
92. Feed the ducks
93. Make a bento box lunch together
94. Have a celebration
95. Make a bow and arrow
96. Have pancakes for breakfast
97. Take a panoramic photograph of your street
98. Make a time lapse film
99. Grow lettuce (or cress) on the windowsill
100. Learn a magic trick

Err.. how about a few more family fun activities for luck!

101. Hatch a caterpillar
102. Make a timeline
103. Make an origami boat and sail it in the bath
104. Make a quiz jar
105. Write a book together
106. Create a family vision board
107. Play with mud
108. Write a new list of family fun activities for next year..!

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