Just a beginner's course...

So I was recently perusing my school library and came across a gem called The Fun Encyclopedia (by E.O. Harbin).

Remember my last post? The one about a new purpose? 

Well, say hello to the first post written with the new purpose in mind! And the majority of the ideas listed below are taken from the book I mentioned above.

Family Activities/Hobbies

• nature collection
• have a banquet
• origami
• stamp collection
• star lore (making up stories about how each star was formed and how it got its name)
• storytelling (everyone loves a good story!)
• reading together (read to young children, let older children read to you, for those over 15 or so talk about an article in the newspaper or a magazine, etc.)
• coin collection
• play charades
• sing while gathered at the piano
• family game night 
• puppet show
• finger paint
• talent show
• brain teasers
• barbecue
• road trip
• picnic
• painting
• sketching
• gardening
• tongue twisters (at the end of the post there is a list of tongue twisters)

Games

• dominoes
• pick-up sticks
• Chinese checkers
• ping-pong
• checkers
• chess
• Go Fish
• battleship
• uno
• Old Maid
• tic-tac-toe
• hangman

Social Life

• invite a family over for dinner
• have birthday parties at your house

Tongue Twisters

• How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

• Bill had a billboard. Bill also had a board bill. The board bill bored Bill, so that Bill sold the billboard to pay his board bill. So after Bill sold his billboard to pay his board bill the board bill no longer bored Bill.

Well that sure was fun! I only got about 150 pages into the book before I had to stop for tonight. I wish I could just turn this book into a blog for you, separated into different categoriess of fun things to do. But I do not want to face anything regarding copyright legalities and such so I won't. But I would highly suggest looking up the book and seeing things for yourself.

Also, I'll be doing more posts like this. Where they are simply lists of things to do. And, remember, these activities can be done with anyone, whether it be your family, your spouse, your friend, or your goldfish! 

And I would love to hear about how things go if you choose to use one of the ideas above, or those in future posts.