Looking for "Family Night" inspiration?
I've taken a bit of a bloggy break from posting about our Family Nights, but I wanted to direct you to some other great sources! The following sites have some great ideas for creating memories with your wee ones. Don't think you're creative enough to organize an activity-filled Family Night? Simply do exactly what these ladies do. Think "copy and paste" for real life. Your kiddos and hubby will never know the difference. [smiles]
My friend Valerie at Posts on the Path has great ideas, including a "race car" night that I plan to copy at our house soon.
If you haven't checked out Whittaker Woman, you must! She's a family night veteran with tons of great ideas, and her site was my original inspiration for trying to do something similar at our house.
Birthday Party Ideas is another great site for helping out your creativity. Just enter any "theme" in the search box, and you'll find tons of activity and food ideas.
One easy way to plan a Family Night is around a movie that's just been released on DVD. We recently had a "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" night, and I let the kids paint wadded up balls of foil red and brown to look like meatballs. Then they used yarn to hang them from the light fixture over the table. Huge hit. Whoulda thought? We also made spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, of course, and then watched the movie.
Just do a Google search for "(your movie title) + birthday party" and you're off and running.
You can also let your kids do the planning! Dylan planned this oddly unique and fun Family Night, and Ryan recently contrived a weather-themed night that had us all making our own rain sticks.
So click away! Plan some deliberate "just for fun" and "just cause I wanna be with you" nights with your kiddos. They'll love the special time with mom and dad. And if you can get Dad to dress up like a pirate, all the better!
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
I've taken a bit of a bloggy break from posting about our Family Nights, but I wanted to direct you to some other great sources! The following sites have some great ideas for creating memories with your wee ones. Don't think you're creative enough to organize an activity-filled Family Night? Simply do exactly what these ladies do. Think "copy and paste" for real life. Your kiddos and hubby will never know the difference. [smiles]
My friend Valerie at Posts on the Path has great ideas, including a "race car" night that I plan to copy at our house soon.
If you haven't checked out Whittaker Woman, you must! She's a family night veteran with tons of great ideas, and her site was my original inspiration for trying to do something similar at our house.
Birthday Party Ideas is another great site for helping out your creativity. Just enter any "theme" in the search box, and you'll find tons of activity and food ideas.
One easy way to plan a Family Night is around a movie that's just been released on DVD. We recently had a "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" night, and I let the kids paint wadded up balls of foil red and brown to look like meatballs. Then they used yarn to hang them from the light fixture over the table. Huge hit. Whoulda thought? We also made spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, of course, and then watched the movie.
Just do a Google search for "(your movie title) + birthday party" and you're off and running.
You can also let your kids do the planning! Dylan planned this oddly unique and fun Family Night, and Ryan recently contrived a weather-themed night that had us all making our own rain sticks.
So click away! Plan some deliberate "just for fun" and "just cause I wanna be with you" nights with your kiddos. They'll love the special time with mom and dad. And if you can get Dad to dress up like a pirate, all the better!
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