5-Buy cheap plain coloured t-shirts for everyone in the family and lots of fabric paint. Enjoy a day painting designs on the t-shirts and jazzing them up. Let the kid indulge in some finger painting.
6-Get some old cloth and a bucket of soap water and have fun cleaning your car together. Allow the little one a few minutes of squeals using the water sprinkler too.
7-Go for a nature walk to a nearby park and collect different specimens of leaves and flowers. Come back home and try and identify them. Use books or the internet.
8-Bake a cake or make homemade fruit ice cream together. Invite a few close friends or relatives and enjoy it.
9-For a family fun day take out your childhood picture album and go through it together. Narrate funny incidents as you leaf through the pages.
10-Buy some craft paper, paint and glitter and help the kids make cards for their grandparents.
11-Take out the phone or address book and see which relative the kids have not spoken to for a long time. Dial their number and have a talk.
12- Cut out pictures form old magazines and stick them on cardboard. Now cut them into pieces and turn them into puzzles. Have a competition on who solves them fastest and enjoy your family day activity.
13- Play spin the yarn. Take turns to make up a story. One of you write it down to read over at a later date.
14-Go visit an old age home or an orphanage with gifts.
15-Go for a picnic with sandwiches and homemade juice. If there’s no picnic spot nearby then just do it under the shade of a tree at a garden outside your home. Spread out a mattress, read a book under the shade and play Frisbee with the kids and enjoy your family day activity.
