Two weeks off of school! I couldn’t help but think what in the world am I going to do with all that time off. Â Hubs will be home some of the time. I needed a plan to keep him busy and me to keep my sanity! So here it!
50 Family Fun Activities to do Over the Holiday Break
- Organize the kids’ new toys.
- Make a pile of toys to give away and donate.
- Watch a movie.
- Create a family vision board for the New Year
- Create family goals
- Plan a family vacation
- Crafts
- Make your own play- doh
- Create an indoor obstacle course
- Catch up on homework or do some worksheets
- Build a tower and knock it down
- Play “I Spy” as a family
- Make Flubber.
- Play a game of Red Light Green Light.
- Host a cooking show
- Make a video
- Coloring, Painting & drawing
- Built a tent city
- Make sock puppets and put on a puppet show
- Play a game of charade
- Write your families story
- Then perform your families story as a play
- Have a scavenger hunt
- Interview each other
- Play a board game as a family
- Read a chapter book aloud and take turns reading
- Play a game of Hide & Seek
- Create a hot chocolate bar (or coffee bar)
- Make your own board game
- Create a science experiment
- Create an indoor obstacle course
- Make someone a homemade card or present to send
- Go for a snowy walk
- Sketch each others portraits
- Let the kids make dinner
- Paint with vegetables
- Act like pirates and have a pirate meal. Cover the table with paper and eat your entire meal with your hands. No utensils!
- Catch up on homework & school work
- Have a pillow fight
- Paint with Q-Tips
- Spend time together talking in the living room and make appetizers
- Put on bathing suits and go for a swim in the tub with Icebergs
- Make cookies or a cake
- Create a wall mural
- Make some Valentine’s Day Crafts
- Let your child teach you something
- Have a family pillow fight
- Make some sunshine with handprint sunshine craft
- Create a family indoor Olympics games
- Have a family pillow fight
What are some of your favorite family activities?
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50 Family Fun Activities to do Over the Holiday Break
What a great list. How could you come up with so many things?
Nicely done. Excellent post. Thank you, gives me tons of ideas.
Cheers Sharon…
I am definitely taking notes of things to do with my daugher during that time. Not sure what I am going to do but I hope to have a ton of fun doing it.
Wow. So many activities! This is going to carry us over until Holiday break is over. I will also share this post with my siblings and cousins too. Keeping the kids busy with activities will help save our sanity!
Now that is an awesome list! So many amazing activities!
What an awesome list! It’s so good to have awesome blogs like yours to help keep me sane during the holidays! Totally saving this for later (it’s going to be MUCH needed!).
I cannot wait for holiday break. I have been working so hard and it will be so nice just to take a break with the kids. I saved this list and I will try to most of them! I know for sure we will be donating some toys!
This is quite a comprehensive list. Holidays are the time for special family bonding. And these kinds of activities help in this bonding.
I am saving this for when we go see the family. I wonder how many we can get in just 3 days!!
I have been worrying about what we are going to do to stay busy during the holidays. Thanks for all the great suggestions! I hope I can keep the kids busy.
These sound like great activated to do with your family during the holidays!! Great list!
We are definitely doing 15, 28, and 30! These are some great ideas. I am printing it out for when the kids are bored!
THese are great ways to spend the time over winter break. Keeping the kids entertained can be challenging for sure. We love to paint with Q Tips too. Making cookies is always fun also.
Making different crafts is always a big one on our lists. We go the the library and to our play center as well. Have to keep everyone busy and happy. Plus we play tons of games.
I love lists like this. We do most of these things during the holidays. It’s the time of the year that we make the extra time to spend together as a family.
This is such a great list! My daughter always donates piles of gently used toys to a local charity. The kids always help and it’s a good way to teach the kids to give back. Of course, they also give away new toys to kids in need.
You have some great suggestions on that list. One of my favorite things to do over the holiday break (or at any time of the year) is to have a family movie night.
These are such fun ideas! We might have to do some of these since we don’t have a lot planned over the break.
You have some awesome ideas here. We already have a pretty full vacation planned, but if we get some downtime, I will use some of these great ideas.
I have no idea what flubber is – but it sure sounds fun! What a great “go-to” list when you feel out of ideas!
Thanks!