1. INVEST IN A PAD OF DRAWING PAPER and start your child sketching. Have him/her try pencil, charcoal, pastels, and attempt different subjects.

2. BORROW, BUY, OR RENT A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. Your child might be a musician!

3. BUY several card games like "Old Maid", "Go Fish", "UNO", and teach your child how to play them and others like "War" or "Concentration".

4. Charades are a lot of fun if you can let go and be a little silly. Even a 4- or 5-year-old can participate.

5. Search in your closet for or invest in board games like "Candyland," "Rack-O,"' "Memory," or checkers. Older children usually enjoy games like "Sorry," "Clue," or "Parchessi."

6. Set up a family reading hour or half-hour, when everyone curls up in a comfortable place and reads (or has read to him/her), the BIBLE, SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON, a book, magazine, comic book, encyclopedia--anything, as long as it's reading. Make popcorn afterward and talk about what you've read.

7. Go bowling or play miniture golf once in awhile if you can. Try croquet, tetherball, ping pong, hoola hoop, or hopscotch.

8. Take a walk or bike ride as a family.

9. Bake cookies. Experiment with new recipes!

10. Work in the garden or rake the lawn--together.

11. Write silly stories and read them to each other. With children too young to write, make up silly stories aloud.

Do something different! PLAY together! Just have fun together as a FAMILY!!!