How to spend more Fun Time with your Family
Many times we get so busy with our commitments - to our clients, to our appointments, social gatherings, tech gadgets, and even our social networking profiles, that it becomes a luxury to spend some quality fun time with our families. It is important to take proper care of our professional as well as personal lives with due diligence, even if it takes for us to schedule and plan things beforehand.Spending a fun night with your family especially the night before weekend can work amazingly in creating the necessary bond. If you are able to do this every weekend - fair enough, otherwise you can plan it once every fortnight or even every month.
Here are a few ways that can help you plan your family fun night more creatively:
1) Make plain Board Games interesting:
If you think you've had enough of your regular board games and carom, then try adding your own personal touch to it by making up a new rule that interests all the members of your family. For example: in Scrabble, give 5-10 extra points to anyone who scores a word that has a letter of his/her name in it. In Monopoly, make it a fine of certain amount if a member completes a round and doesn't say "Please" to the bank and says "Thank you" after getting the turn money. Just jazz up the games, play around a bit with the rules and see the difference these regular games can make in your fun night together.
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2) Organize family pictures:
If you have an old album of family pictures, take the pictures out and spend a night together sorting them. Each of the family member can come up with their favourite pics and categorize them under various moods, like happiest, funniest, weirdest etc. Also, you can plan and create a family tree with each family member's pic which is their favourite.
3) Camping at home:
Camping is fun and you don't always have to go to the forests or camping sites to enjoy it. It can be done at home too using regular household stuffs. Use chairs, towels, blankets and cushions to make your tents. Eat your dinner together in your tents. Playing board games or card games while camping becomes even more fun. At night swap nice daring stories, jokes and camping songs. Sleep comfortably in your tents and then in morning have waffles for breakfast!
4) Card games:
A deck of cards can provide the most amazing range of entertainment and works great in bringing your family together. Play Hearts, Spades, Rummy and other fun card games together. You can also invent your own, or add your own rule to a regular card game and make it more interesting. Building a castle of cards can also be a fun way to spend time with your kids.
5) Design your family crest:
Sit together and explore the internet to know the meaning of your family name, and of each person's name. Know each member's favourite living creature such as lion, tiger, peacock etc. and design a family crest. Spend fun time together creating your family's crest, logo and banner, which you can place on your door, pencil boxes, etc.
So, these were some of the fun ideas that can definitely make you spend some good time with your family. What do you do to spend some fun time with your family? Share your ideas with me in your comments below.