Finger Paint
Mix 2 cups flour with 2 teaspoons salt. Add 2 1/2 cups cold water. Stir until smooth. Gradually add this mixture to 2 cups boiling water. Boil until smooth and thick. Add food coloring, then stir until smooth.

• Visit the fire station
• Go to the post office and let the kids send some mail.
• Take a nature walk. Collect ferns, flowers, leaves and rocks to make a centerpiece for the dinner table.
• Find a construction site and watch the trucks and tractors.

I’ll have a few more ideas in later weeks. In the meantime, share some of your own in my comments section.

This is not a long list, at all. My guess is that you have something fun to do together that you could add to this list.

1. Take a walk
2. Ride bikes
3. Visit some historical places
4. Have coffee in a coffee shop and talk
5. Go to a museum. There are some great free ones around
6. Take a small boat onto a peaceful lake
7. Make a picnic basket and go to a park or somewhere with a view and sit in your vehicle
8. Go to a free home improvement show and dream
9. Put the kids to bed, make popcorn and play board games
10. Meet your spouse for lunch and take a walk together while eating a sack lunch
11. Go sledding
12. Go for a drive. Fall is a particularly beautiful time of year for this.
13. Put the kids to bed and have a picnic in the living room, complete with blanket
14. Go bowling
15. People watch somewhere busy. Doesn’t have to be the mall. It could be at the hospital!
16. Do your grocery shopping together
17. Play miniature golf
18. Go shopping at the dollar store
19. Go to a local event that is free, such as music in the park during the summer
20. Park somewhere with a view or at the airport (to watch the planes come in and go out) and talk
21. Go to a friend’s or relative’s concert or performance. Rate them using the star system.
22. Give your own concert for friends or family.
23. Check out your favorite childhood books from the library and read them to each other.
24. Go hiking
25. Sit on the beach
26. Pick up a $5 pizza and go park somewhere to talk
27. Have a bonfire. Make sure the local laws allow.
28. Pick up a box of specialty ice cream and two spoons
29. Visit a book store (some have coffee shops and dessert items)
30. Go to the Saturday market or a flea market
31. Bake something together then eat it
32. Go to a local high school game
33. Play in the snow
34. Check out the rehearsal of a local play, as they are free to the public
35. Visit a friend in the hospital. Bring them something special
36. Write out your Christmas card list
37. Plan your child(ren)’s next Birthday party
38. Sit outside and view the stars with, or without, a telescope
39. Give each other a back rub
40. Go caroling (more fun with a group)
41. Play mini golf
42. Visit thrift stores
43. Visit the library
44. Go roller skating
45. Dress up to the nines and go for dinner at McDonald’s
46. Visit a home improvement store and dream

Have some more to add? Leave me a message.

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The agenda today consists of … and not in any particular order:

• Coffee
• CTBHH chat
• Watering the yard
• Quiet time
• Wish my twins Happy Birthday!
• Finish getting our network hooked up to use SOS (Switched on Schoolhouse)
• Finish our MOTH schedule before school starts next week
• Attend a maquillage party, hosted by two of my daughters, Bethy and Anne
• Laundry

A few photos from this past week (Recognize anyone?)