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This Article is From Our May 2008 Advice & Tips:

70 Activities and Project Ideas for Families in Worcester County
Spring and Summer

1. Make a difference. Plan a family service project. This may involve painting an elderly neighbor’s house, planting trees in the neighborhood, or holding a drive for children’s toys or books.
2. Go camping, a great adventure for your family.
3. Camp in your own back yard, kids love it.
4. Scrap booking, have the family go through old photos and organize them and reminisce over old memories.
5. Volunteer at a local food shelter, as a family.
6. Fly a kite.
7. Plant a garden together. Growing and caring for a few plants will help your children learn responsibility, and will be a fun way to spend time in your backyard.
8. Get a book on astronomy and go stargazing at night.
9. Ride bikes together.
10. Take a skill class together. Learn a new skill together.
11. Have a barbeque and invite over friends.
12. Set up a family web page.
13. Plan a family night. Movies and dinner.
14. Make a movie. Use the video camera and plan, act, and direct, your own family movie.
15. Set a play station tournament at your house. Use what ever games your kids have and who cares if they can destroy you, have fun.
16. Play tag or Frisbee, or just toss a ball around.
17. Do some spring cleaning, garage, attic, or junk room. Then have a yard sale and use the money for family fun.
18. Go to an amusement park.
19. Go to the zoo.
20. Build a birdhouse or feeder.
21. Re-decorate your home together or just certain rooms.
22. Fix something together such as an old bike.
23. Have a game night. Sit out on the back patio and play board games with the family. Make it a weekly or monthly night.
24. Have a pizza night at a local restaurant.
25. Make a lunch date, have the family meet during the day for lunch.
26. Ice cream night; take the family out for ice cream.
27. Take the dog for a walk together.
28. Plan a dream vacation.
29. Play “Simon Says”.
30. Play hide and seek.
31. Re-build your backyard to include a sandbox or some area the kids can call their own.
32. Build a Fort in your backyard.
33. Re-create a movie scene in your house, such as the cave of wonders from Aladdin.
34. Draw a map of your neighborhood.
35. Visit a library and just explore, pick a subject and have the kids find books about it.
36. Have a movie night at your house for your whole family.
37. Have a picnic at Bishopville Park under the pavilion. Then the kids can play on the playground.
38. Go to a Shorebird game.
39. Watch a little league game at Newtown Park in Pocomoke.
40. Have a Happy meal night at your local McDonalds.
41. Go trail hiking and fishing at Shad Landing in Snow Hill.
42. Go to a free concert at North Side Park, in Ocean City on Sundays, from 6-8pm.
43. Go walking around the indoor track at the Worcester County Recreation Center in Snow Hill.
44. Visit Furnace Town in Snow Hill.
45. Play tennis at Showell Park.
46. Go to the County Fair in August at Byrd Park.
47. Play volleyball at Newark Park.
48. Go for a nature walk at Herring Creek Nature Park in West Ocean City.
49. Crabbing at a local pier, such as Isle of Wight Park.
50. Spend an afternoon on the boardwalk in Ocean City.
51. Have a movie night in the neighborhood and have several families help organize it and over see it, include all the parents and kids.
52. Have a neighborhood kid’s night at your house, have the kids over for outdoor games, provide drinks and organize outdoor games such as “hide and seek”, badminton, “duck, duck, goose” or any other age appropriate game.
53. Try something new with your family, such as Roller blade, ultimate Frisbee, or rock climbing.
54. Cook dinner together, everyone having a different dish they are responsible for, of course, age appropriate.
55. Make up your own bedtime story tonight.
56. Create your own family language.
57. Plan a family celebration.
58. Go for a walk after dinner
59. Crank up the music and boogie down. Dance using flashlights as a strobe light.
60. Walk for charity as a family, such as March of Dimes.
61. Go to the beach.
62. Go swimming at a local pool.
63. Have a treasure hunt/scavenger hunt for prizes.
64. Take a Nurturing Class together to help strengthen family bonds.
65. Create a sports fantasy team together and play out the season, as the whole family as managers.
66. Play a sport together such as bowling or billiards.
67. Go to church together.
68. Plan a special theme week and have fun with it.
69. Make a haunted house out of your garage.
70. Keep a sense of humor and have fun with your family.

Developed and compiled by Dave Baker ,NFNC
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