Posts tagged ‘family activity’


Monday: Weekly Family Activity–Herb Garden

Monday, March 30th, 2009 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

I am NOT going to overdo it this year with my Spring garden like I normally do. Unfortunately it doesn’t pay off and with me less is more. Last year the girls loved helping me put together our herb garden and we have already started it for this year. Growing herbs saved me tons in […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity–Growing a Garden to Help End Childhood Hunger

Monday, March 9th, 2009 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

Our guest writer today is 10 year old Katie, who is sharing with us her experience of helping to end childhood hunger. She wanted to share this in hopes that you would follow in her footsteps with her fantastic ideas! Be sure to give her a warm welcome, she is an amazing young lady! One […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Photography Walk

Monday, March 2nd, 2009 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

I took the wonderful advice from a past guest writer and dug up my old digital camera to let Abby try out. We went on our normal loop of the neighborhood walk, but this time decided to document it with our cameras. It was fun to take pictures of the same places and see how we […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Recycling Plan

Monday, January 26th, 2009 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

I have been wanting to be a better recycler for a long while now, I do recycle but know I can be much more effective. We are going to set ourselves up for success by having a plan and executing it tonight as a family. 1. We have taken a trip to our city center to […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity—Five Senses Fun

Monday, January 12th, 2009 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

Five Senses Competition Have a tally card for each member of the family to keep score during this competition! The family member with the highest points wins! If you were at my house the prize would be the winner gets to pick what is for dessert that night 🙂 Touch: Blind fold each player and […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity–Write Your Thank You Notes Together!

Monday, January 5th, 2009 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

Take the time this week to start (or continue) teaching your children the importance of hand written thank you notes. Explain to your children the importance of handwritten thank you notes for presents they have received or special outings they have attended. When you give a warm thanks (handwritten with time and love) it makes […]

Monday: Weekly Family Activity–Holiday Ornament Game

Monday, September 29th, 2008 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

The giveaway is two posts down. I cannot even tell you how many l—o—n—g walks I went on with the kids I nannied playing this game. Who can find a black witch? Who can find a ghost? Who can find a scary looking jack o lantern? Who can find orange lights? When the holidays came […]

Thursday: Importance of the Arts—Nature at Night

Thursday, May 15th, 2008 in Thursday: The Importance of the Arts

Nature at Night   I grew up with a planetarium in my Elementary School (I know how cool is that) and grew to love star gazing, planets, constellations and the stories that went along with them. Nature at Night, what a beautiful form of art.   My two kids are to young right now to stay […]

Monday:Family Activity—Easy Outside Games/Activities

Monday, April 7th, 2008 in Monday: Weekly Family Activity

Easy Outside Games to Do For Your Weekly Family Activity My parents were the king and queen of cheap/free family activities. Well most of the time free 🙂 They had five children on a one income family but still wanted to do fun things together. They had to get very creative. My mother had a […]

Monday: Family Activity—Teaching Your Children the Importance of Saftey Around Dogs

Teaching Your Children the Importance of Saftey Around Dogs Here are a couple quick videos of my daughter with our dogs, we have been teaching her from day one how to treat them, and they love her so much. My husband is a dog trainer (Ty Brown http://www.communicanine.netand http://www.dogbehavioronline.com/) and one of his pet peeves […]