Family Fun Night Ideas
It’s so important to have time as a family to really connect with each other. It’s so easy to overlook this need when we get caught up in our busy day-to-day hustle and bustle. So if that’s you, friend. Here’s your reminder to slow down and take some time with your awesome family.
I have put together some super cool Family Fun Night ideas that are sure to be a hit with everyone in your home!
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Movie Night
A good ole movie night with popcorn and snacks is always a great idea! You can easily combine this with other family fun night ideas as well.
You could take this a step further and make some themed snacks, depending on the movie, or make it a pajama night. Get creative with it!
Dance Party
This is a fun little idea to help burn some energy up before winding down. Just pick some music and boogie down, friends!
Make it a themed event! 80’s Night BABY!
Puzzle Night
We are huge puzzle lovers in our house! We are constantly doing puzzles together. Barrett enjoys them so much that he has a little “secret” stash of them hidden away. Sometimes he will do those same puzzles over and over again a few times in a row!
Doing puzzles together is such a great way to connect. You can do one big puzzle together or a bunch of little ones, either way, It’s a great way to spend time as a family!
After you’ve finished it, you can glue it together and have a keepsake from the time together. Hang it on a wall as a nice reminder of the time spent bonding with your favorite people.
DIY Pizza Night
Spending time in the kitchen together is such an amazing bonding time to have with your family and including the kiddos in the kitchen from a young age benefits them so much. There are a lot of early skills to be learned in there.
If you want to be fancy with it, you can make your dough from scratch. If you want the quick option, naan bread and flatbreads are easy and tasty options.
You can do one big pizza together or you could even do individual pizzas so that everyone can customize their own.
Have everyone pitch in on the process. Assign jobs or work on each task as a team. Whatever works best for your family, just have fun with it.
Backyard Campout
A warm summer night can be the perfect time for a quick backyard campout. All the fun of regular camping with less hassle of having to load and unload your gear and saves on the travel time.
If you’re able, have a campfire and roast marshmallows!
Nature Night
Spend a night out in nature with your family. Go for a walk, hike, or bike ride. Stop and have a picnic, take some pictures, and spend some time relaxing and connecting.
Take a few minutes to collect a rock or something to keep as a keepsake.
Maybe spend the evening together in your backyard stargazing or cozied up around a warm fire. Leave the electronics behind. Just the people that you love, making memories together.
Family Craft Night
Gather together some supplies and spend some time together letting your creative side go wild! Find a craft that everyone wants to try, get some supplies, and have at it. If it’s something more complicated, have a tutorial on hand to help if needed.
Some ideas you can try:
- Acrylic Pour Painting
- Napkin Decoupage
- Ornament Making
- Jewelry Stamping
- Tie-Dye T-shirts
Doing these crafts together as a family is not only a beautiful way to make memories, but you will have a keepsake in the end, as well.
Indoor Picnic
This is a favorite in our house. Whenever we order takeout, we put out or blanket on the floor in our living room and have a little indoor picnic. It’s a nice change of scenery from sitting at the dining room table all the time.
Combine this with some other Family Fun Night ideas to make a whole night of it! Pick a movie to watch while you eat, play a game while you enjoy your picnic, etc.
Outdoor Picnic
If the weather is nice and you want to get outdoors, pack that dinner up and take it outside for a real picnic.
Make it a theme night like a beach party, or bring a variety of gourmet meats and cheeses to enjoy a sophisticated snack under the stars.
You could also make it a BBQ picnic or if allowed have a little campfire to roast weenies and marshmallows!
Virtual Travel Night
This won’t be as fun as going to visit, but it can be a fun way to learn about a new place or culture while connecting with your loved ones.
Pick a place as a family. Have everyone be in charge of learning something interesting about that area to share with everyone else. Prepare food ahead of time from the region or buy one if you can. Find a couple of videos to watch together to learn about the area and discuss it.
Ask each other questions. Where would you want to visit first if we went here for vacation? What would you be most excited about? Get everyone engaged in the conversation.
Hot Cocoa Bar
A warm cozy afternoon inside during dreary winter weather is best spent with a cup of hot cocoa. It’s just a fact.
Set up various mix-ins like marshmallows, peppermint, and chocolate shavings to top the hot cocoa with.
Family Cooking Night
Pick a recipe that everyone will enjoy and come together as a family to prepare it.
A few good options that we love to make together are, of course, Pizza, but also, tacos, and nachos, even make breakfast for dinner together.
Build A Fort
Spend some time and build a nice sturdy fort! Once you have the base of the structure built with whatever you can find to use, the possibilities are endless for play.
If you can, use the fort for more than just playing. You can eat dinner around it if it’s in a common space. We always build ours in the living room so we just make a picnic around it sometimes.
Comedy Night
Have everyone take turns telling their favorite jokes! Treat it like a stand-up comedy show! Play a game in which the last one to laugh wins and have each player take turns trying to make the other laugh.
Or pick a funny movie or movies to watch together! Pick a specific comedic actor to watch a few of their movies or shows.
Make Dessert Together
Pick a recipe that everyone likes and spend some time making together. You can break up tasks for each person or go through the steps together. Whichever works best for your family.
You can combine this with some of the other ideas here to make a whole evening out of it!
Board Game Night
We love to grab a few of our favorite board games or card games and play for a while. It is such a great way to bring the family together and have a really fun time.
If your interests align, you could grab a movie-themed board game and play while you watch the corresponding movie together.
Science Night
We regularly spend some afternoons playing with baking soda and vinegar making volcanoes. It’s such an easy little activity, but B has so much fun with it. We like to add different color food dyes to it and watch the color combos happen with the reaction.
You can make this a simple DIY type thing and use what you already have or purchase a kit. There are a lot of options out there for kits containing multiple different projects that are so fun as well.
Thank you for taking the time to read through this fun-filled list! I can’t wait to hear about your Family Fun night ideas too! Jump on over to my Facebook page or leave me a comment here!
I love all of your ideas. I think a backyard fire would be amazing, I love the outdoors. I also think a hot cocoa bar would be so fun too. I might have to give it a try with my nephew.
Thank you!
Hot Cocoa Night with a movie on sounds so fun!
Yes!! We love it this time of year!