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Cook

Teach your kids some skills in the kitchen, or learn a few new tricks yourself. The main thing about cooking is its great fun, but also a chance to instill a few healthy tips into your family’s life. As a family put all of your favorite meals on paper and create a family cookbook!

Start a YouTube channel It’s free to do and easy – start a YouTube channel. You can vlog about anything, or take on something a bit more ambitious – make a family film, or chronicle the antics of a pet you have. Don’t expect fame and fortune from it all, more a creative release and a diary of your lives.

Start a blog

Why blog? If you’ve got the slightest hint of creativity, blogging can be incredibly rewarding. It’s also a great opportunity to digitally meet new people across the world, as well as document what your family has been up to.

Read

Every single day, read for at least 20 min. Pick up a good book, magazine, newspaper article or read online.

Do some spring cleaning

Put on some music and begin with a room or two and spend some time together reorganizing things and cleaning the house.

Get artistic

Some paper, pens, pencil, coloring crayons, or some paint – creativity can’t hold you back. Hold an art show in your home for the family to view.

Try a creating or writing game

This is a different twist from playing traditional board games as a family. Use your favorite game and create another fun way to play it or make a whole new game for the family to try!

Play a board game

It’s easy to forget these exist in this day and age. But they’re out there! Really, you can’t go wrong with the likes of Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble, Chess, Uno, Battleships, and many more.

Have family dinner

It’s tempting to sit in front of Netflix these days, particularly after a long day, but, at the very least, eating at the table as a family is a great way to catch up with everyone, have a discussion, and enjoy some quality time together.

Build a vegetable garden

Gardening can be incredibly rewarding, but also takes discipline, a meticulous approach and teamwork.

These are all great skills for any young one to learn, so head out into your garden (or start a vegetable patch inside your home) to see what you can grow. The results can be inspiring.

Make a time capsule

These are endlessly fascinating – capture your moment in time, then catch up with it a number of years later (or not at all, leaving it for future generations to find). Get yourself a large scrapbook, some coloring pens, crayons and pencils, then record something as often as possible. You could stick in newspapers or magazine clippings, draw silly pictures, and write poems, haikus, or just your thoughts during that moment in time.

Take on an epic jigsaw puzzle

Find the most ridiculously over-complicated jigsaw you can – turn it into a project! You can keep a record of it as you progress through the year (take pictures etc.), whilst working on it as a family, or alone. There’s a certain serenity to completing a jigsaw puzzle piece by piece. Plus, it’s highly rewarding at the end.