Fun Activities

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Candy Bar Game Variation

Walked 9.66 miles the day before yesterday. Walked 10 miles yesterday. Smiled hundreds of smiles. Answered thousands of questions. Solved a million problems. Stayed up ’til the wee hours playing card games the night before last. Last night we pinned my sheets together, hung them from a nearby gazebo, used […]

Get your kids off the couch and playing a challenging and fun game of monkey ball.

Play Monkey Ball with Your Grandchildren

Summer is here. What can you do when grandchildren come for a visit? Something a little bit more physically active than wielding the TV remote? Monkey ball — that’s what!! Monkey ball is a great activity to play with grandchildren from ages seven or eight until they are seventy eight!! […]

Secret Codes, Secret Messages

If granddaughters love tea parties, what do grandsons love? Why, secret codes. That’s what! Writing secret messages to your grandson could be great fun. And a great challenge — especially to decipher the message. Before you write your message, you need to determine how you are going to code it. […]

Turn Back the Hands of Time

Tucked away in a corner of one of my closets is a time capsule that our family will open in 2010. I can’t wait! We created it in 2000 – the beginning of a new century and a new millennium. This is the second one we’ve done as a family. […]