Winter Weather Brings the Family Together Family Fun Nights are Back!

With the holiday craziness behind us and summer vacations months away, cooler

temperatures beckon us to curl up inside, relax, and gather for some indoor

entertainment, family-style!

Grab your matching PJs and fuzzy socks. The night is all about togetherness and

laughter! Ready, set, let’s go!

Pizza and popcorn, anyone? How about a hot chocolate board for dessert? No

fancy food tonight. The evening is completely no muss, no fuss.

The simpler, the better, right? Challenge yourselves to be creative and use what

you have at home.

Don’t just sit on the couch for movie night. Instead, recreate a drive-in theater

inside your home. Depending on the kids’ sizes, grab laundry baskets, empty

storage tubs, or cardboard boxes and line them with pillows. Let the kids pick out

their own “cars,” and you can push them around as you “drive” them to the

TV…ahem, theater.

Anyone up for a game of tic-tac-toe? Nab a beach towel and some plastic or

paper plates, a.k.a. game pieces (with paper plates, you can draw X’s on them).

Next, take some string or something similar and form a grid on top of the towel.

Have any toy cars? Painter’s tape? Make a curvy racetrack on the floor and rev

those engines!

Next up is something sure to bring on the belly laughs! Go around the house with

paper bags or pillowcases and fill them with toilet paper rolls, hats, neckties,

jewelry, sunglasses, feather boas, wigs, stick-on mustaches…you get the picture.

Each bag should be different. The wackier the better! Pair everyone into teams

(adult/child teams if possible). Hand each team a bag and set a timer. No early

peeking! One person in each team gets to dress the other person using items only

in their bag. Then, the teams will switch roles for an equally hilarious second

round.

And of course, what would the night be without board games? Grab a few faves

from storage–the more, the merrier.

Staying in was never so much fun!