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Fun Things to Do Today
#1: Family Activities

By Terri Mauro, About.com Guide

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Need something fun to keep the kids occupied? Try one of these activities you can do together.

Alphabet Biscuits
Alphabet Lacing Card
Altered Notebooks
AMC Summer Movie Camp
Apple Print Craft
Artwork Holder Magnet
Autumn Sensory Play
Backpack Tag
Backyard Adventure
Baking Soda Volcano
Bandaid Lightning Bugs
Beaded Safety Pins
Biological Rhythms
Bird Bookmark
Blooming Necklace
Boredom Busters
Box Puzzles
Butterfly Garden
Calculator Games
Calendar
Candy Corn
Candy Corn Bingo
Cardboard Castle
Cardboard Roll Puppets
Cat-in-the-Hat Treat
CD Animal
CD Daisy Puppet
CD Fish
Certificates
Chia Tatos
Clothing Design
Coffee Filter Butterflies
Coffee Filter Easter Egg
Collecting
Cookie-Cutter Bird Feeder
"Count Your Blessings" Ornaments
Crayon Candle
Crayon Cookies
Crayon Window Art
Creative Gift-Wrapping
Creative Travel Activities
Crushed Soda-Pop Can Crafts
Customized Word Games
Diaper-Box Tunnel
Easy Bird Feeder
Daylight Saving Time Online scavenger Hunt
Dinosaur Downloads
Density Column
DIY Cash Register and Money
Easter Craft Ideas
Easy Gifts
Edible Space Shuttle
Educational Picture Ring
Egg Carton Sea Creatures
Egg-Free Pumpkin Muffins
Fall Placemats
Film Container Parachutes
Finger Painting for the Tactile Defensive Child
Fireworks Shirt
First-Aid Kit Necklace
Five Minute Chocolate Mug Cake
Flannel Boards and Stories
Flubber
Football crafts
Football Team Placemat
Foot Print Chicks
Friendship Wreath
GFCF Crafts
Giant Panda Mask
Gift Wrap Memory Game
Gingerbread House
Glook
Grandparent's Day Cards
Greeting Card Lacing Toy
Halloween Activity Book
Handprint Wall Hanging
Hanukkah Crafts
Handmade Toys
Handprint Fish
Harvest Blessing Snack
Heart-Healthy Worksheets
Heart Mobile
Homemade Applesauce
Homemade Bubbles
Hungarian Beer Breadsticks
Ice Cream From Snow
Ice Cube Paintings
I Spy Bottle
Jan Brett Bookmark
Jump-Rope Rhymes
Kazoo
Kitchen Science
Leprechaun Pudding
Lift-the-Flap Books
Listening to Nature Activities
Magic Wand Pencil
Make Your Child Into a Burrito
Make Your Own Olympics
May Day Crafts
Melting Snowman
Mixed-Up People
Nature Rambling
Newspaper Bowl
Newspaper Hut
New Year's Noisemaker
99 Sensory Activities
No-Bake Cookies
Orange Prints
Paper Bag Apple
Paper Ornaments
Paper Pinwheels
Paper Plate Frog
Paper Plate Lamb's Face
Paper Toys 1
Paper Toys 2
Papier Mache
Peek-a-Boo Barn
Pencil Carrier
Pencil Pennant
Photo Ornaments
"Pin the Nose on the Snowman"
Play Dough
Playdate Cards
Play a Game
Popcorn Garland
Popcorn Pictures
Printable Play Checks
Pumpkin Cookies
Puzzle-Piece Candy-Cane Ornament
Q-Tip Dandelion
Rainstick
Reading Routine
Reluctant Artists
Reindeer Cards
RePlayground
Rice Tub
Rock Mosaic
School Calendars
Scrap Paper Masterpiece
Scratch Art
Self-Portrait Collage
Shake Painting
Sharpie Pen Tie Die
Shaving Cream Painting
Snakes and Ladders
Soft Collage Shamrock
Sound Bingo
Sound Memory Game
Spray Painting
Styrofoam Cup Flowers
Sugar and Salt Experiment
Sun Clock
Teacher Thank-You Card
Texture Rubbling Landscapes
Thanksgiving Card
Thanksgiving Centerpiece
Thanksgiving Paper Chain
Thanksgiving Woven Placemat
"30 Things to Do Before Summer Ends"
TP Christmas Tree
Travel Games
Tree of Thanks
Tube Sock Snowmen
Two-Page Plays
Valentine Placemats
Valentines
Veteran's Day
Water Fun
Wind Chime Magic
Winter Crafts
Word Chain
Wrapping Paper Placemats
Yarn Spider Web
ZOOMgames

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