Weekend Family Fun
"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."
- Mother Theresa
Happy weekend everyone! Hope you are all enjoying your weekend and spending lots of time making memories with your families. I need a rest from creating distance education for my class and blog posts, so this post will be my one weekend update with some fun entertainment ideas for you and your family. Enjoy!
Puppet Show
Have your kids write a script on a topic of their choice. Then pull out some old socks or paper bags and create puppets of each of the characters.
Once you have characters, design a set and have them perform a puppet show. Record it and send it to family members or Zoom them in to be a live audience!
Create a Family Band/Make a Music Video
Pull out your instruments and learn how to play a song together. If it has words to sing, even better! Singing has a lot of heath benefits. Check out these articles:
If you don't play any instruments, pick a song and play some pots, pans, or bells. You could also use toy instruments and pretend they are real. You could film a music video with them.
Once you've learned and practiced your song(s), zoom with family members to perform. Have fun!
Create your Own Indoor Mini Golf Course
This could be so fun! Look up some videos of mini golf courses or look back at pictures of your own time at mini golf courses.
Each family member needs to create and design their own putting green hole in an area of your house and backyard. They need to think of a theme (ex. under the sea, jungle adventure, etc.) and decorate their hole with items that fit the theme. Then have everyone choose a par for their hole, design score cards, and play a few rounds!
Family Workout Session
Do a workout as a family. There are tons of videos on YouTube with online workouts that you can put on your TV. Choose one together and have fun exercising!
Tie Dye Clothes
Find some old white clothes and turn them into something new and exciting. This website has information on how to get started and all sorts of techniques to do different designs. Take a look and try some out!
Lego Building Contest
Pull out all your LEGO and have a building contest with all family members. Give yourself a theme and a time limit, keep your creations secret, and then reveal them. Face time a grandparent to be the judge of the builds and don't tell them whose construction in whose.
Here are a suggestions of things you could build:
- Catapult
- Robot
- House that opens
- Simple machine
- Small world scene
- Boat that floats
- Parachute for a miniature
There are lots more on this website: https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/lego-challenge-calendar-ideas-kids/
Blanket Fort Building
Take out as many bed sheets as your kids need and build an epic blanket fort! When they are finished, they could have a snack and read a book or colour inside. Maybe you could even build the fort in front of the TV and watch a movie together. Don't forget to fill the fort with pillows to make it comfy!
Start a Family Covid-19 Journal
I'm having my students create a Quarantine Chronicles journal while they are learning from home. You could do this in your families! If you wanted, you could talk to your kids about the difference between primary and secondary resources and perhaps talk about Anne Frank and her diary from Word War II. One day people might want to read about our experiences during a pandemic.
Some topics my students will be writing about are:
- Binge watch
- Cancelled vacation plans
- Going out concerns
- Grocery shopping
- Family interactions
- What matters
- How do you feel about it?
- Choose your own
- Change
Nerf Gun Battle
Split your family into teams and build some forts. Then have a battle with your nerf guns.
Family Photo Albums
Pull out your old family photo albums and look through them together. Share stories of events from the past and introduce your kids to people who were and still are important to you.
Hope this gave you some fun ideas for the rest of the weekend!
Cheers,
Angela
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