A List of Family Home Evening Ideas

Okay, This list of Family Home Evening activities I will be adding appropriate links and additional ideas as I find them.

Visit the zoo.
Find out about your area's community center and/or park activities.
Wash the dog. (A neighbor's dog if you don't have one!)
Have a family slumber party.
Build a fort.
Get out the the family photo album.
Research your family history.
Visit the Genealogical library.
Play stickball.
Play hopscotch.
Play games.
Clean the house together (Have a pick-up party.)
Make up a play. Take it to a nursing home.
Fly kites.
Go on a family trip/historical excursion.
Did it snow? Go sledding and make a snowman.
Make a collage out of pictures from old magazines.
Set up a lemonade stand on a warm day.
Shoot hoops together. Play H.O.R.S.E.
Draw pictures of members of your family.
Make a family calendar.
Tell stories around a campfire. (Or at the barbecue?)
Organize a game of capture the flag.
Make miniature boats and float them in some water.
Write letters to grandparents or a missionary.
Play freeze-tag.
Tell scary stories (With lights out.)
Play broom ball.
Go for a hike.
Go for a bike ride together.
Go get ice cream and walk around the temple grounds.
Learn to play the guitar together.
Listen to classical music, lights off, lying on the floor, and take turns saying what it sounds like.
Attend community concerts or listen to a local band.
Organize a community clean-up.
Visit the library.
Go ice skating or roller skating.
Paint a picture, a mural or a room.
Learn how to use a compass.
Organize 72 hour kits.
Plant a tree or some flowers.
Learn the metric system.
Learn sign language.
Learn the Morse code.
Go swimming.
Go bird watching.
Walk the dog. (A neighbor's dog if you don't have one!)
Visit the countryside.
Visit the City. (Maybe on a bus?)
Pick berries/fruit together
Bake cookies or bread.
Make homemade jam.
Take treats to neighbors or friends.
Plant a garden.
Join a family choir.
Start a family journal.
Go to a museum.
Take a nature hike trail.
Play cards.
Start a family exercise group.
Sing (in the car).
Visit a local bookstore or library.
Make crafts together. Give them away.
Make Christmas ornaments together.
Write a story together.
Put a sleeping bag out in the back yard and watch the night sky through binoculars.
Go fishing.
Play touch football.
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Have a culture night. Make a meal and learn about another culture.
Take photographs.
Invite friends over. Cook chinese.
Do yard work together.
Play Frisbee.
Make your own family cards for the holidays or birthdays.
Play chess, bridge or checkers.
Go camping.
Go for a long walk.
Play charades.
Do a rain dance.
Go around the table after dinner and have everyone say what they love best about each other.
Go dancing. Have a family dance. Take a dance class together.
Climb a tree.
Watch the sunset. Watch the sunrise. Figure out when the sun will rise and set in your location.
Have a big party and celebrate a TV free week.
Have a picnic. (If it's raining, have a picnic in the family room on a blanket.)
Invite a non-member family over for a barbecue.
Memorize the Articles of Faith.
Memorize a family hymn.
Learn how to fold the American Flag (or your country's flag). Have a patriotic night. Have a flag ceremony.
Visit and elder person or someone shut in.
Have a first-aid night. Invite other families. Call the fire department for a class.
Learn what to do if you are lost.
Have a budgeting class. Save for a family trip.
Learn how to build a fire and the cook hot dogs and enjoy.
Have an etiquette night. Practice your skills over a formal dinner.
Talk about drugs. Do role-playing.
Have a friend come and discuss good nutrition and health practices. (they don't listen to mom).
Learn home repairs for an activity. Make sure the girls learn too.
Prepare a family group sheet/four generation pedigree chart. Interview an older family member.
Start a family collection. (coins, rocks, stories, dress-up, clothes, treasures).
Have a family testimony meeting.
Have a bubble blowing contest.
Do bubbles outside. Try different instruments.
Have a baking contest
Adopt a grandma or grandpa from the ward.
Have a family fireside
Watch an old movie (maybe a western) together.
Make a family goal chart.
Have a service car wash.
Learn to play golf together.
Go miniature golfing.
Make a grocery list, set a budget, divide items, go get pizza with the money you save.
Make a family cook book.
Have a family treasure hunt.
Have a family dance. Everyone can bring partners.
Solve a crossword or wordsearch puzzle together.

Super Snowflake

Holiday Decorations For Family Fun nite

Even if it never gets cold enough for a single snowflake to fall where you live, bring a wintry sparkle to your doorway with this humongous piece of snow that never melts. And don't let the delicate design fool you: Assembly (which is done shish kebab style) is a cinch.



MATERIALS

White or silver tempera paint (optional)

Six 18-inch-long dowels with 1/8-inch diameter

Six 7 1/2-inch-long bamboo skewers or dowels (with 1/8-inch diameter)

One 6- by 1-inch Styrofoam disk (for center)

Two 3-inch Styrofoam disks (for center)

Serrated knife for cutting Styrofoam

One 2-inch Styrofoam ball, halved (for center)

Tacky glue

Wooden toothpicks

Assorted Styrofoam pieces (for the arms and bridges)

Wire cutter or heavy-duty scissors

Fishing line or string





BEFORE YOU BEGIN:

Dowel lengths given here are for a door approximately 40 inches wide. If your door is a different size, subtract 6 inches from the width of your door and divide the result by 2. That's how long you can make each arm and have it fit your door. Keep this figure in mind when you're buying the dowels and foam shapes.

•Don't buy the compressed, smooth kind of foam (extruded foam)--you can't get the dowels through it.

•The snowflake looks best with two sets of three matching arms.





1. If you like, paint the dowels (we used silver paint) and let them dry.



2. Make the snowflake's center by stacking and gluing the 6-inch disk, a 3-inch disk and half of the ball together. (Cutting foam pieces is a parent's job.)



3. Glue the other 3-inch disk to the back of the 6-inch disk--this will become the hanger. For extra support, stick toothpicks through the layers from the back.



4. Have your child decide how he wants to arrange the shapes on the six long arms of the flake and the six smaller connecting bridge arms. Lay them out in order.



5. Guide each dowel through the center of each shape. Leave about 3 inches empty at the end of each dowel (this part will slide into the center disk). When you finish, make sure all the arms are the same length (they may vary depending on what you put on the ends). Trim the dowels with a wire cutter or scissors if they are uneven.



6. Before attaching the arms to the center disk, divide the space on each side of the disk into thirds by marking with toothpicks. Stick the toothpicks into the sides of the disk in the same places you want the arms. Make sure arms opposite each other are in one straight line. Replace the toothpicks with the arms. Insert the top and bottom arms first. Adjust alignment if necessary.



7. When you like the look, pull out each arm, put glue on the end of the dowel, and reinsert. Tighten the other shapes by gently pushing them down each arm, then remove the end shape, put glue on the dowel and reinsert. Let dry.



8. To add a bridge between each arm, lay a 7 1/2-inch-long skewer or dowel across two arms at points about 5 inches away from the snowflake center. Mark the entry points of each bridge with toothpicks. Thread three small shapes onto a skewer, put a dot of glue on the ends of the skewer and insert at the toothpick marks. Repeat between each arm.



9. Complete the hanger by wrapping fishing line or string around the disk at the back of the center. Knot tightly and wrap again, leaving ends long enough to tie into a long loop. Coat the string around the circle with glue. Let it dry and hang