37 MORE Activities to Do With Your Family on Your Front Porch
37 MORE Activities to Do With Your Family on Your Front Porch
Your porch is a perfect little piece of heaven that you just might be overlooking. It's a great place to spend time outdoors with someone you love or just by yourself. Even in this fancy, high tech world where we are constantly entertained by television, videos and game boxes, sometimes getting back to the basics is rather refreshing.
So without further adieu, here are 37 more ideas that you can do - a few zany ones. All are simple, most are free and something is here for everyone. Some of these activities will work best if you have a small table on your porch. Keep in mind that the weather and your porch lighting play a factor in some of these activities.So let's get to it.
Teach yourself or someone else calligraphy
Decorate a scrapbook page
Tie some flies for fishing
Knit, crochet or cross-stitch - or teach someone else how to do that
Build something cool out of popsicle sticks
Decorate your porch for the season
Catch up on button sewing or mending
Learn to write a report based upon a niche you love and sell it online
Create a decorative paper chain using gum wrappers or origami paper
Write down family memories or label family photographs
Peel potatoes or carrots for dinner. Or shuck corn on the cob .
Teach your son or daughter to tie various knots
Plan a road trip together
Do some exercises - like weights or step aerobics
Practice yoga or meditation
Organize a junk drawer, file folder, craft bin or box of old stuff
Press flowers or leaves you collected using a simple press
Make something out of play dough or modeling clay
Read a stack of interesting articles that you've collected
Tune up your bicycle (if you know how)
Write some articles and get them published
Memorize a favorite poem or song lyrics
Reconsider what you are doing with your life
Keep a gratitude journal and share your thoughts with each other
Put together a model car or model airplane and paint it
Work on a project that you've always wanted to do but never thought you had the time (and let the daffodil principle go to work for you)
Count the money in your piggy bank
Come up with menu ideas for the next week or two - be open to suggestions from your family
Paint your porch columns or porch railings a beautiful color combination
Sew small yo-yos, then later you can make something from them
Watch a movie
Invite your neighbors over for cake on the porch
Sit with an elderly friend and let them talk your ear off for a while
Paint on t-shirts
Draw up a plan to move your life in the direction in which you want it to go
Clean and rearrange your porch furniture
Think of all the things you could sell on eBay or give away to someone else
Bonus: I just couldn't stop at 37, so here are a few more for you. I would love to hear your ideas, too!
Get a couple buckets of warm water, some paint brushes and let the kids 'paint' the porch
Get a memory book and challenge each other to some memory exercises
Work on a Rubik's cube
Play school, house or super heroes with some little people
Do absolutely nothing but enjoy the peace and quiet
Dream up your own reasons for spending time on your own front porch with your family. It just might improve the rest of your life, too.
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