You've finally reached the weekend, and everyone is scattered around the house doing who knows what; and honestly, it's a challenge to put effort into thinking of anything more exciting to do than curling up with some Netflix. It's easy to let months of weekends pass this way, letting valuable family bonding time escape without a second glance. But having an exceptional weekend doesn't have to be a challenge.
Here's a list of unique activities that you can do with things you probably already have at home:
1. Have a lip sync battle
2. Spend the night in another decade with appropriate clothes, music and activities
3. Make pizzas that look like each other's faces
4. Have a cupcake war by seeing who can make the best cupcakes with a weird ingredient
5. Make a chalk mural as long as your entire street
6. Doorbell ditch cookies
7. Go camping in the backyard
8. Have a pie eating contest
9. Dress up in shawls and wigs to play Bingo
10. Paint portraits of each other
11. Write letters to family members
12. Pretend the power is out
13. Look up scripts to movies or plays on the Internet and act them out
14. Have a family Olympics with all the events (for example, create a figure skating routine minus the ice)
15. Dress up in fancy clothes and have a cheese and chocolate tasting
16. Celebrate your favorite holiday at the wrong time of year
17. Pretend you are vacationing in a foreign country
18. Build an obstacle course throughout the house
19. Make up your own ice cream flavor and eat it
20. Do a service scavenger hunt by breaking into teams and seeing how many people you can serve in an hour
21. Have a family sleepover
22. Visit a nursing home
23. Check out library books, and read all of them
24. Have a dance party
25. Eat breakfast in bed
26. Turn a movie on mute and act it out, finding props from what you have in the room
27. Make up your own card game
28. Build a fort
29. Have a spa night with massages, facials and yoga
30. Have a Nerf gun war
31. Make a collage from pictures cut from magazines
32. Build a sandcastle or a snow castle
33. Write thank you notes for cashiers, the mail carrier, etc. and hand them out
34. Make a movie
35. Skype a relative
36. Have a tower building contest
37. Look at family photos
38. Be a tourist in your own town
39. Go to a restraunt just to order dessert
40. Have a family talent show
41. Go on a scavenger hunt
42. Let the kids be the parents for the night
43. Go on a walk
44. Try cooking a meal from another country
45. Pick an actor, genre or series and have a movie marathon
46. Go stargazing
47. Listen to an audiobook together
48. Start a garden
49. Learn a new skill, like juggling or throat singing from youtube
50. Sing songs and roast things around a campfire
51. Find out today's National holidays and celebrate them
