It is very important in
today's world to stay attached to the people in your life - for this is so easy
to lose contact within the fast-paced lives we live each day! With the in-time
and out-time of each member of the family being different, it is often on
Facebook that you come to know about what is happening in each others' lives!
One easy way stay in touch with everyone and keep the household bond strong and
alive would be to plan a family weekend.
Fun Family Weekend Ideas
Do it yourself
Weekends could be the perfect days to create about improving the look of your property. Home improvement does need more than a single set of hands, so you could all get together and work on all the rooms one at a time. You could start with the drawing room, because you all spend time in it; therefore the best thing would be to get everybody's inputs and concepts on it and try to incorporate as numerous of them as you can. If there is anybody in the household who is fond of carpentry, you can set about making a piece of furniture together - just like a center-table, a bookshelf, or if you really wanna be that ambitious, maybe a bay window! If carpentry isn't your thing, you could probably paint your home. If that is too big a task, you can all paint one wall together and convert it into a painting! It would completely transform the feel of the drawing room.
Bon Appetite!
Creating a trip to the kitchen, to cook instead of to eat, could be a fun way of spending a lazy afternoon indoors! Everybody in the household could get together and cook meals. It could be something really simple like pasta and garlic toast, to something as elaborate like a five-course meal. If everybody in the household is fond of a particular type of food - like cakes, cookies, sandwiches and so forth - you could choose to allow it to be. Alternatively you could pick on something have never tried to make in your own home. It could be anything from chocolate souffle to pizza with a world cuisine dish. Cooking together provides you with a lot of opportunity to actually work together on something. Experiencing the meal together will also be a task full of surprises... depending on if the meal turned out too good, or bad to be true!
Clean and Green
Gardening isn't technically an 'indoor' activity, but it's still closely related to your home. You could set about cleaning a garden. Mow the lawn, prune the plants, add fertilizers and perhaps pluck the flowers and employ them to decorate the house. There's something like therapy in getting both hands dirty with mud and soil while gardening - I speak from general observations! And of course your kids are going to like it! There are some things we never outgrow - playing in the mud is most likely one of them. You may feel foolish while you read this right now; but you know the only way to find out even before I say to you!
Garage Sale
This is probably one of the best methods to clear unwanted things in the home! It is something everyone can take part in. You can ask each member of the family to come forward with things they no more need. You could categorize them under different groups. You can get your kids to make banners and flyers to place up so that your neighbors, friends know about the sale. In the end you could pool the cash together, divide it among yourselves, after which everyone could buy something for him/herself from the money earned - it might stay as a memory from the activity.
Bon Voyage!
This is probably probably the most common ideas of a fun-filled family weekend - to organize a trip to somewhere. You could camp, fishing, trekking, mountaineering, cycling or perhaps scuba-diving! These are some of the most common ideas, however. If you wish to avoid common family getaways and make a move different, you could go somewhere that isn't common. You could make a road trip to some near-by field or hill or grassland. You can even plan for a one-night trip and also pack a tent, develop a crackling fire, cook food, and sleep within star-lit sky. If you or your youngsters are fond of star-gazing, you could take a telescope along too. Other fun activities you can engage in on such trips are truth or dare, dumb charades, name-place-animal-thing, or something like that as simple and yet exciting as telling ghost stories!
Fun Family Weekend Ideas
Do it yourself
Weekends could be the perfect days to create about improving the look of your property. Home improvement does need more than a single set of hands, so you could all get together and work on all the rooms one at a time. You could start with the drawing room, because you all spend time in it; therefore the best thing would be to get everybody's inputs and concepts on it and try to incorporate as numerous of them as you can. If there is anybody in the household who is fond of carpentry, you can set about making a piece of furniture together - just like a center-table, a bookshelf, or if you really wanna be that ambitious, maybe a bay window! If carpentry isn't your thing, you could probably paint your home. If that is too big a task, you can all paint one wall together and convert it into a painting! It would completely transform the feel of the drawing room.
Bon Appetite!
Creating a trip to the kitchen, to cook instead of to eat, could be a fun way of spending a lazy afternoon indoors! Everybody in the household could get together and cook meals. It could be something really simple like pasta and garlic toast, to something as elaborate like a five-course meal. If everybody in the household is fond of a particular type of food - like cakes, cookies, sandwiches and so forth - you could choose to allow it to be. Alternatively you could pick on something have never tried to make in your own home. It could be anything from chocolate souffle to pizza with a world cuisine dish. Cooking together provides you with a lot of opportunity to actually work together on something. Experiencing the meal together will also be a task full of surprises... depending on if the meal turned out too good, or bad to be true!
Clean and Green
Gardening isn't technically an 'indoor' activity, but it's still closely related to your home. You could set about cleaning a garden. Mow the lawn, prune the plants, add fertilizers and perhaps pluck the flowers and employ them to decorate the house. There's something like therapy in getting both hands dirty with mud and soil while gardening - I speak from general observations! And of course your kids are going to like it! There are some things we never outgrow - playing in the mud is most likely one of them. You may feel foolish while you read this right now; but you know the only way to find out even before I say to you!
Garage Sale
This is probably one of the best methods to clear unwanted things in the home! It is something everyone can take part in. You can ask each member of the family to come forward with things they no more need. You could categorize them under different groups. You can get your kids to make banners and flyers to place up so that your neighbors, friends know about the sale. In the end you could pool the cash together, divide it among yourselves, after which everyone could buy something for him/herself from the money earned - it might stay as a memory from the activity.
Bon Voyage!
This is probably probably the most common ideas of a fun-filled family weekend - to organize a trip to somewhere. You could camp, fishing, trekking, mountaineering, cycling or perhaps scuba-diving! These are some of the most common ideas, however. If you wish to avoid common family getaways and make a move different, you could go somewhere that isn't common. You could make a road trip to some near-by field or hill or grassland. You can even plan for a one-night trip and also pack a tent, develop a crackling fire, cook food, and sleep within star-lit sky. If you or your youngsters are fond of star-gazing, you could take a telescope along too. Other fun activities you can engage in on such trips are truth or dare, dumb charades, name-place-animal-thing, or something like that as simple and yet exciting as telling ghost stories!
Memories Immortalized
Creating a family scrapbook is one of the perfect choices for a lazy Sunday afternoon. All of us - each and every single certainly one of us - has an artist in him/herself, which is good to let that artist out every now and then. You could compile all pictures together making a scrapbook full of memories. Inside jokes, funny stuff you said on different occasions when the images were clicked, could go in combined with the pictures. Bills of all kinds - dinner bills, hotel bills, might be stapled onto relevant pages as souvenirs. You can draw, sketch, paint, add stickers making it into a personalized picture album. A similar idea could be to create a video of the family - something similar to 'A Day In The (FAMILY-NAME) Household'. This could indeed become an amazing and fun-filled day activity. You can document every hour during the day and shoot everybody carrying out doing all their daily tasks. The only real difference is, everyone is bound to become clumsy, since they are on 'candid camera'!
Social Work
Social work could include everything from donating old books to some library, to paying a visit to an orphanage and offering to utilize the kids for the weekend. In case your children are really young, then participating in social work could be a fantastic way to teach them about responsibility and sharing. You can combine the idea of a yard sale with social work - the money earned out of the sale may go to an orphanage, or an old-age home or perhaps animal pound. You could offer your old clothes, books and toys or you might offer your services.
Creating a family scrapbook is one of the perfect choices for a lazy Sunday afternoon. All of us - each and every single certainly one of us - has an artist in him/herself, which is good to let that artist out every now and then. You could compile all pictures together making a scrapbook full of memories. Inside jokes, funny stuff you said on different occasions when the images were clicked, could go in combined with the pictures. Bills of all kinds - dinner bills, hotel bills, might be stapled onto relevant pages as souvenirs. You can draw, sketch, paint, add stickers making it into a personalized picture album. A similar idea could be to create a video of the family - something similar to 'A Day In The (FAMILY-NAME) Household'. This could indeed become an amazing and fun-filled day activity. You can document every hour during the day and shoot everybody carrying out doing all their daily tasks. The only real difference is, everyone is bound to become clumsy, since they are on 'candid camera'!
Social Work
Social work could include everything from donating old books to some library, to paying a visit to an orphanage and offering to utilize the kids for the weekend. In case your children are really young, then participating in social work could be a fantastic way to teach them about responsibility and sharing. You can combine the idea of a yard sale with social work - the money earned out of the sale may go to an orphanage, or an old-age home or perhaps animal pound. You could offer your old clothes, books and toys or you might offer your services.
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