Family Fun Activities

Choose a "Family Fun" activity to do together. Enjoy the laughter, learning, and memories you'll make!

  1. Table Talk

  • During breakfast, lunch, and/or dinner ask a few of these questions to learn more about each other. Make up some of your own questions to add to the fun!

  • If you could have any view from your bedroom window, what would it be? Is it more fun to be an adult or a child, why? What's the best birthday party you could imagine? What's your favorite summertime activity? What are the qualities you look for in a friend? What special talent would you like to have? What's your ultimate ice cream sundae?

  1. Storytime Adventures

  • Choose a story to read or be creative and make one up. As someone in your family reads/tells the story, have other family members act it out.

  1. Categories

  • Someone chooses a category, for example: types of cereal. You go around the circle with each person naming items in that category. For example, Lucky Charms, Cheerios, Fruit Loops, etc. You continue until someone repeats a type of cereal that has already been said or cannot come up with a new item in 3 seconds. The categories are endless which means the fun is too!

  1. Pictionary

    • One person will choose something to silently draw (you can find many lists of pictionary word ideas online). Teammates will guess what the artist is drawing. When someone guesses correctly, another person has a chance to draw something while others guess. Simple and fun!! All you need is some paper, a pencil and some ideas to draw!

5. Laughing Game

  • Who can keep a straight face the longest while everyone else is doing something funny to make you laugh?!

6. The Great Wind Blows

  • Arrange all the chairs to form a circle (all chairs facing inward toward the middle). One player starts in the middle, standing up. He or she begins the round.

  • One person in the middle starts by saying “The great wind blows for everyone who…” and then says any characteristic that is true for that person. For example, if the person has been to Oceans of Fun, he or she can say, “The great wind blows for everyone who has been to Oceans of Fun.” All players who have been to Oceans of Fun before must stand and quickly find a new seat. If the player is not able to find a vacant seat, he or she is the new person who is in the middle.

  • Some ideas include:

  • The great wind blows for everyone who hates chocolate.

  • The great wind blows for everyone who likes Disney movies

  • The great wind blows for everyone who has read the book The Three Little Pigs


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