Our favorite Family bonding activities at home

      
      Hey gang, thanks for visiting!
I've been asked a lot lately about managing family time and how we handle big trips together, what we have left on our Summer bucket-list, etc, so today I've partnered with Pampers Pure to answer the questions about what we like to do as a family while we're at home!

      The weather has been SO very hot for us back home in Utah for the last month or so which has meant that between the hours of about 11 and 6 we rarely even go outside unless we have to. That being said, being subscribed on PampersPure.com and having our favorite diapers and wipes delivered to our door before we realize how low we are has been a lifesaver! Also now that we have the Pick Your Prints option on the website too it's been fun to let the older kids pick their favorite prints for Alice and see them get excited.haha


     Also, if you want to check out the prints and sign up as a subscriber then you get $7 off your purchase! Ordering is super simple too, all you do is:
 
    1. click this link HERE to visit the page, 
      2. select your diaper size, 
      3. pick out your favorite print for each pack, (we're expecting tacos and the cute sloth next), 
      4. select your order frequency (every 2 weeks, 3 weeks, or 4 weeks), 
      5. and check out. 

That's it! Let me know if you have any more questions about how it all works, and now let's get into the family activity list:)




40 Family Bonding Ideas for Home

1. Institute family journaling time
2. Have a living room picnics
3. Make homemade personal pizzas
4. Look through family albums and tell family stories
5. Color together
6. Put on a mock cooking class
7. Decorate and have a family dance
8. Play family dress-up
9. Fill an envelope with drawings and letters for a distant friend or family member
10. Go on a walk
11. Plan sardines or hide-and-go-seek
12. Make a blanket fort
13. Do a science experiment off Pinterest
14. Make a home-movie of the day
15. Learn a new song together
16. Snuggle up together and have a 'quiet contest'
17. Set up a relay race or a scavenger hunt in the house
18. Get together to plan a dream vacation
19. Write a short story, taking turns to decide the plot direction
20. Each member of the family gets an hour to decide what activity the family does
21. Take your bikes or scooters around the block
22. If your kids are the right age, make a dessert ONLY giving them directions, no touching
23. Play Disney song trivia 
24. Have a BBQ complete with s'mores
25. make banana splits or ice cream sundaes
26. Collect old toys/clothes/books, etc to donate together
27. Celebrate someone's half-birthday, or un-birthday
28. Have a family talent show
29. Let each child choose a story-book for you to read in succession
30. Tell a choose-your-own-adventure story
31. Decorate sugar cookies
32. Plant a tree or flowers together
33. Blow bubbles
34. Make a family fun calendar, everyone picking somewhere local they'd like to go
35. Play a movie in the back yard
36. Video chat with distant friends or family
37. Play in the sprinklers
38. Have a staring contest tournament with prizes
39. Have a karaoke night
40. Wash the cars together

       Well, that's our collection for now, but let me know if you have any questions about any of the activities, and whether or not you'd like family road-trip tips or our Autumn bucket-list next! I'm so excited about this post though and I hope you found it useful, particularly since Summer is almost over and many of us will be having lots more time at home than we did during the vacation months.
   
      What are some of your favorite at-home activities for bad-weather days or lots-of-laundry-days, etc?

As always, take care!