Recipes & Meal Plan Strategy
March 28, 2024
1. Make your favorite dessert recipes together and give the extras to the neighbors
2. Go for a family picnic at your favorite park
3. Roll down a large hill
4. Bake bread or rolls together
5. Go for a walk
6. Go skating, rollerblading, or ice skating
7. Feed the birds
8. Watch the clouds or stars together and discuss what you see
9. Camp in your backyard one warm summer night
10. Give free gifts to each other on holidays—like coupons for help with chores or back rubs
11. Make a family masterpiece using photographs, artwork, and souvenirs
12. Have a manners dinner where you learn about etiquette together
13. Have a backward meal: eat dessert first
14. Have a “favorite friend” dinner where each person invites a buddy
15. Have pirate dinner, where everybody eats with their hands
16. Play your favorite music and have a dance party!
17. Finger or toe paint on paper or paper plates
18. Make chalk drawings on the sidewalk
19. Make crafts together (get ideas from Pinterest, online websites, craft stores, library books, and magazines)
20. Record family events, interviews, and singing sessions. Watch the recordings together on occasion and make copies for the kids and extended family members or post them on blogs or to Facebook or Instagram
21. As part of a family member’s birthday, look at his or her photo album. Write in the album the cute, funny, amazing, quotes that person says or things the family loves about them
22. Write and direct a movie starring your family
23. Play charades
24. Sing favorite songs together
25. Turn up the tunes and dance together in the kitchen
26. Teach each other your favorite dance moves
27. Read together
28. Read funny books out loud or tell jokes
29. Do family history. Interview/ record family members about their lives.
30. Make a family indexing goal and have a prize for when you reach it
31. Take family names to the temple
32. Invite a child’s friends and their family for dinner and a game
33. Organize a scavenger hunt, with clues to finding the next object
34. Say tongue twisters, like “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers” (you can even create some using family names)
35. Plant a vegetable or flower garden and take care of it together
36. Have a family water, whipped cream, or Jell-O fight
37. Play four square or basketball together
38. Visit a museum
39. Visit an art gallery
40. Visit a university campus
41. Write family letters to politicians urging them to support a cause you believe in
42. Watch family videos together
43. Watch funny videos together
44. Go camping
45. Go hiking
46. Have a barbecue
47. Go swimming
48. Spend time at your favorite parks
49. Go sledding and have hot chocolate after
50. Have a sleepover with grandparents or cousins
