105-weekend children activities and family fun activities the entire family will love doing together!

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We go on a date night every week to connect as a couple. But once a month, we invite our kids and make it a family date. We’ve found a lot of joy in planning intentional weekend children activities our whole family can enjoy!

There is something about wholesome recreational activities that bond families together. And we’d encourage any family to make fun activities on a designated fun weekend happen with children at least once a month!

If you need some fun ideas of fun things to do, here are 100 excellent weekend children activities.

Weekend Children Activities for Family Fun Days

1. Create a family bucket list and let everyone share their top pick for an activity they’d like to do together this year. You’ll come up with your own list of great options!
2. Plan a Family Movie Night
3. Have a family game night and play your favorite games
4. Buy a new board game and learn it together as a family
5. Have a family pizza night and make person pan pizzas
6. Complete a jigsaw puzzle together
7. Bake cookies
8. Have an Iron Chef competition
9. Create a stop motion video together
10. Play video games together
11. Do science experiments together (try a Kiwi Crate to make it easy and extra exciting!)
12. Get a bunch of glow sticks and have a glowstick dance party/neon dance party
13. Do an Adventure Challenge for Families
14. Create a scavenger hunt for kids to find a fun surprise
15. Build a huge living room fort and have a living room picnic.
16. Find a dance challenge to learn and learn it and record it together as a family
17. Create a family tree and spend some quality time talking about what you know about your ancestors.
18. Have a family read-a-thon with books and treats ready
    
    

    Outdoor Activities

19. Have a family barbecue in the backyard
20. Invite another family over for a potluck dinner in the backyard
21. Do a s’mores night and tell stories by a bonfire
22. Set up a tent and have a backyard campout or an indoor camping in the living room
23. Set up a car wash/bike wash and pump the music
24. Have a sidewalk chalk mural competition
    

    Free Things to Do With Kids on the Weekend

25. Go for a casual bike ride
26. Ride bikes to a destination and navigate through a bike path
27. Visit a skate park with scooters and skateboards
28. Go tour an open houses and see the cool new designs and technology going into homes
29. Set up a slip ‘n slide
30. Jump on a trampoline with sprinklers
31. Play glow-in-the-dark games
32. Water balloon fight
33. Have a Nerf gun war
34. Play catch
35. Have a family kickball tournament
36. Visit a new park you’ve never been to
37. Do a Home Depot run and get kids kits to complete together
38. Have a park picnic
39. Plan a formal jump in puddles and play in the rain activity for rainy days
40. Look for shapes in the clouds
41. Go for a hike
42. Visit the local library and find books to read and movies to watch together
43. Visit the thrift store and choose funny outfits for each other to try on.
44. Attend a library storytime or a Barnes and Noble family storytime
45. Do a museum preview day on their free day of the month
46. Go to a splash pad
47. Do a drawing lesson online and have a drawing competition
48. Tour a fire station
49. Go geocaching
50. Have an outdoor family movie night
51. Have a beach day at the beach or a lake
52. Download our random acts of kindness list and go do a bunch of random acts of kindness
53. Road trip to historic sites and go learn about local history
    

    
    Fun Activities for Families to Do on the Weekend

54. Go get ice cream
55. Visit the weekend farmer’s market together
56. Go bowling
57. Visit an old school arcade
58. Have a swimming day at a local swimming pool
59. Visit amusement parks in your area
60. Go miniature golfing
61. Visit a family fun center/entertainment center
62. Do an escape room
63. Visit a water park
64. Do train rides at a train park
65. Take some road trips to nearby destinations
66. Go to the science center
67. Visit a dinosaur museum/museum of natural history
68. Spend a day exploring art at your local art museum
    

    
    Some of the Best Places to Go for Family Fun

69. Go rock climbing
70. Attend a basketball game
71. Go to a baseball game
72. Attend a football game
73. Go to a soccer game
74. Have a family zoo date
75. Try horseback riding and book a guided tour on horseback (many summer camps offer weekend outings you can book)
76. Play laser tag
77. Visit the movie theater
78. Go to the children’s museums in your area
79. Go ice skating
80. Try roller skating
81. Visit a petting zoo
82. Do a Saturday morning donut run
83. Go out to brunch as a family
84. Have dinner downtown where you can listen to some live music while you eat
85. Visit the botanical gardens
86. Watch for special events your city/town put on and make sure to attend one together
87. Visit a local bakery and choose treats to enjoy
88. Go to a candy shop and let everyone choose their favorite candy

    
    Seasonal Weekend Children Activities

89. Make some family New Year’s resolutions together. Be sure to turn it into a fun family party and let all family members have a say!
90. Do Valentine’s fondue night dinner and share something you love about each other.
91. Go see the Easter Bunny
92. Do an Easter Egg Hunt
93. Have a glow-in-the-dark Easter egg hunt adding glowsticks pieces to eggs and hunt at night.
94. Plant a tree or do some community service for Earth Day
95. Attend a 4th of July parade
96. Visit the state fair or summer carnival
97. Go back to school shopping and let everyone choose a new piece of clothing.
98. Have a big back-to-school family dinner and set goals and celebrate the start of the school year.
99. Do our Halloween Scavenger Hunt for families. Grab the free printable here.
100. Plan a family-themed Halloween costume and go thrifting to find items.
101. Do a family service project to give thanks around Thanksgiving.
102. Explore your neighborhood Christmas lights scene with our Christmas Light Scavenger Hunt.
103. Go visit Santa at the mall and look into photo packages for some cute or silly family special photo opportunities.
104. Go caroling and treat others to some live music
105. Create graham cracker houses or gingerbread houses

 

These family activities are a great way to get the whole family, and kids of all ages involved in some family bonding! We hope family adventures and intentional weekend children activities together become some of your favorite things and favorite memories!

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