We have Fun Fridays at our house. It is almost like a holiday here. We make special meals, do crafts, watch movies, and so on. What are some of the ways that you make a day in the week special?
#1 grandson come every monday and wed. # 3 grandson comes on Tuesday. Love those days. Made cutout sugar cookies today with gs#1. Poor Hubby does all the clean up now.
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I think routine and rituals are important to children. Tomorrow we are doing backward day. We are having dinner for breakfast and breakfast for dinner. The children thing we are celebrating a national holiday! Last time, we had mac and cheese for breakfast. This time we are having Ravioli for breakfast. For dinner we have bacon, sausage, eggs, toast, jelly, and maybe fruit.
Last Fun Friday, we had a theme of weird noises. We went on the Internet and found free noises, like explosions, guns, screams, laughs, and so on. We got to where I tried to see if the children could guess the animal by the sound.
We have the occational Midnight Movie Madness at our house. The kids never know when it is going to happen but they get woke up around midnight and we watch a movie and have snacks and get to sleep in the next morning.
In the summer I will occationally have bannana splits for dinner.
Debora, it sounds like you are making some special, fun memories! When my dds were little, Friday was movie night. We would have pizza for dinner, then a movie with a snack of their choice - popcorn, nachos, etc.
Here Sunday is our special day. Hubby does the breakfast dishes, and we have Chinese take out for dinner. We have always had a "rug picnic" and rent a pay per view movie. It has lost some of it's charm for my 15 y/o since her sister went away to college, but we still enjoy the picnic time.
I like the "rug picnic" idea. My children are rarely able to eat in the living room on the rug. Last Backward day, we had Ravioli's for breakfast. We usually pick different themes for Fun Fridays. The children are wanting to make a volcano. I am thinking about getting those lava cakes for dessert. I haven't decided what else to do to make our volcano theme complete.
DeBora, The rug picnic would be great for your grandkids. When my girls were little, we'd spread out a dollar-store shower curtain liner, (to make spills a non-issue) cover it with a blanket,sheet or beach towel and build tents by hanging sheets over the backs of chairs. They'd love hanging out in their tent and eating supper. Even without the tents, the picnic is still a big hit with the movie rental. Make s'mores on the stovetop, 'aunts on a log"( celery with peanut butter and raisins), or candy campfires for dessert. ( candy campfires start with a circle of peanut butter (or cake frosting) spread on a plate in about a 3' circle. Press a ring made of mini marshmallows into the peanut butter, leaving a little margin of peanut butter exposed; that's your fire circle. Sprinkle some chocolate chips into the circle; those are your coals. Now make a pyramid of pretzle sticks in the center using peanut butter (or frosting) to make them stay; those are the logs for the fire. Cut triangles and wavy shapes out of red and/or orange fruit roll ups and stick them in between the pretzle logs; those are the flames. Then crush a graham cracker (or any other crispy cookie) inside a plastic bag and sprinkle the crumbs on the outside of that peanut butter ring; that's the dirt/sand.) I used to do this with my scout troops, and my girls always loved it. It was an especially good treat for a rainy night rug picnic.
DeBora, maybe for your volcano theme you can make egg creams, the froth you get when you add the seltzer is sort of volcano-ish. My mom used to make me what she called the "Giant's Dinner" Where broccoli stalks were fallen trees, mashed potato mounds with an indentation at the top with gravy dripping down were mountains ( could easilly be volcanos), and little meatballs were boulders. I used to love that... so maybe if you threw in some dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets, and a few drops of red food coloring in the gravy you could pull it off?
Kathy
