Dec29

Paint, Paint, Paint!! Easy Craft for Anyone!

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Paint, Paint, Paint!! Easy Craft for Anyone!

No matter what your age, painting is always fun. There are no rules~ so just have fun with it! Home made art is the best kind. You can make your own art gallery to display the talents of the family!

 

For the younger kids finger paints are the best. Kids love getting messy and using their hands. I found this great recipe for home made finger paint .

 

Homemade Finger Paints

  • 1 cup of cold water
  • 1/4 cup of cornstarch
  • 1 tablespoon of light corn syrup
  • Washable, nontoxic tempera paint
  • Bowls
  • Finger-paint paper or freezer paper
  • Masking tape

Then get some paper and let them go nuts! You will love what they come up with! 

 

For the older family members, go to Hobby Lobby or Michael’s and get canvas, paints, brushes, and paper.  You can get inspiration from art books or just let your imagination take over and paint an abstract. Whatever you choose it will turn out great, I promise!

 

Dec29

Craft Idea : Home Made Snow Globes

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Craft Idea : Home Made Snow Globes

This is such an easy and fun way to decorate for the holidays! Now everyone can have show their creative side. It is even cute to make them for other holidays. For Birthdays, Halloween, Easter and the 4th of July!

Almost any jar works for this project: Baby-food, pimiento, and olive jars are good choices. Look for plastic or ceramic figurines (metal ones are prone to rust) at flea markets and hobby or model-railroad shops. Synthetic evergreen tips are available at many floral-supply stores.

If the jar lids are not in seasonal colors already, paint them with oil-based enamel paint. Sand the inside of the lid until the surface is rough. With clear-drying epoxy, adhere the figurine to the inside of the lid, and let the epoxy dry.

Fill the jar almost to the top with distilled water; add a pinch of glitter and a dash of glycerin (available at drugstores) to keep the glitter from falling too quickly. Don’t add too much, or the glitter will stick to the bottom of the jar when it’s flipped. Screw on the lid tightly, being careful not to dislodge the figurine. Turn the jar over and back again — and let it snow.

Dec29

Cooking With The Family!

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Cooking With The Family!

 

Vanilla Cupcakes are fun and easy to make. After they cool-it’s time to DECORATE! 
2 1/4 cups sifted cake flour
1/4 tsp. salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup melted butter (no substitutes)
3/4 cup milk
2 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

Preheat oven to 375°F. Grease muffin cups well or line with buttered paper cups (use any size muffin tins for this recipe).

Sift flour and other dry ingredients together.

In a separate bowl, combine butter, milk, eggs and vanilla. Stir into the flour mixture.

Fill prepared muffin tin with batter, filling 2/3 full.

Bake in a preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean or for 10-20 minutes (depends upon size of muffins).

You can decorated each cupcake depending on the season or just do whatever!   snowflakes cupcakes

 

 christmas cupcakes

Dec28

Board Games!

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Board Games!

Staying in with the Family can be terrible if you are all sitting around looking at each other. But staying in with the family when you have games, good food and music is a blast!

Sometimes it can be hard to find activities that your whole family can enjoy. Board games are a great idea that have been providing entertainment to families for decades. They are a cheaper alternative than going out to see a movie, show or sporting event, which can easily cost your whole clan well over $50 and the best thing is that family board games can be used over and over again!

 There are literally thousands of different family board games out on the market these days, from old favorites to brand new titles you’ve probably never heard of. Whether you’re looking for strategy, trivia, or card games, there will definitely be something out there that will fulfill your family’s needs and provide hours and hours of fun.

 Here are some Board Games that the whole family can enjoy!  Some of our favorites are:

This website had great ideas on how/what games would be best for your family:

  • Classics The advantage to these is that everyone knows them, or almost — and they’ve stood the test of time. Check age gradings, but some suggestions are: Monopoly, Clue, Sorry, Othello, Battleship, Boggle, Parcheesi, Operation, Chutes and Ladders, Candyland, Trouble, Sorry, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit. Many of these have special interest editions now.
  • Strategy Games These games are great for families that like a little more substance to their games. Often story-based, one of the best we’ve seen this year is Parthenon from Z-Man Games where players race to build their civilizations.
  • Multi-Faceted Games These are games that combine different kinds of skills. Great for diverse families where everyone gets a chance to shine. For older kids and adults, check out Cranium. Cranium Family Fun, Hoopla and Whonu? work for the whole family.
  • DVD Games Definitely one of the hottest trends in the whole game business Our favorite is Scene It? from Mattel in different versions that cover movies, TV, music, sports and Harry Potter. Pop in the DVD and you simply play along. Choose the version that’s right for the group you’re playing with.
  • Skill and Action Games For when you just want to have some silly fun. Try Captain Bones Gold from Spin Master, and Ker-Plunk from Mattel. These are great for kids with tons of energy, and the different outcomes keep families engaged.

Jun6

Scott Tucker, Nick Sundburg & Others Raise Money for Divot Charities

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Scott Tucker, Nick Sundburg & Others Raise Money for Divot Charities

As a means to create awareness and fundraise for their mission to help military families the Divot Charities recently held their 10th annual Golf Tournament at Bull Run Golf Course. The event, located in Haymarket, Virginia helps to raise monies to fund various charitable activities helmed by the organization. Notable people in attendance include Scott Tucker and Washington Redskins player Nick Sundburg who also donated two autographed Redskin team footballs.

The Northern Virginia based group Divot Charities helps to raise money for underfunded nonprofit organizations across the country. Their first beneficiary is the Fisher House program which private and public sector backed initiative to support active military members and their families. Through this program all major VA medical centers across the country have “comfort homes” which are houses on site that these families can stay cost-free while their family member is being treated for any unexpected major injury or illness.

A large program it assists over 10,000 people annually and each benefit helps to maintain the proper maintenance and operation of these homes. This year’s golf tourney proved to be a major success drawing in over $38,000 from generous donations as reported by the Falls Church News Press.

Mar23

Family Fun Friday 2013-03-23 09:56:00

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Family Fun Friday 2013-03-23 09:56:00
 

  Today is a sad, sad, sad day for us here at Family Fun Friday. It has been brought to our attention that another blog has been taking our ideas and posting them as their own. Using our work, word for word; pictures, signatures and all. It is a disturbing discovery to find that since November 2011, someone has been shadowing and duplicating our every move.

   Four years ago, when we started Family Fun Friday, we wanted to share some of our family activities and ideas. Our main reason we started our blog all those years ago was to inspire families to have more time together and give them ideas of things to do together through posting things we had done that we thought brought our little families a little closer to one another. It was a project that we put our whole heart and soul into. Coming up with new, creative, fun ideas is not always an easy task. We put a lot of time and effort and our own money into coming up with new, fresh ideas to share with you, our friends. In the end, it has always been worth it.  We have always felt flattered and over joyed when we see our ideas linked up and posted on other blog. People have always been respectful and given us credit for the time and effort we put into our activities. To us, it is the greatest form of flattery. Nothing makes our work seem more meaningful than hearing you like our ideas enough to try them and post about them. We love it!

  However, it was a devastating blow to see all our hard work posted on another blog in a way that made them appear to belong to that blog. We have never felt so violated. Words cannot express how unsettling it was for us to find pictures of ourselves, our children and our homes on a complete stranger's website. Pictures that we had posted on our site, stolen and misused, without permission. Violating our personal property and infringing upon our copyright. The way this blog owner had taken our post...it makes us all feel sick and deeply hurt. It is shameful!

  What this person did is wrong. Plagiarism is never okay. As a result, we here at Family Fun Friday are taking our site down. It breaks our hearts to see years of hard work and dedication wasted. We have tried and exhausted all other avenues to take down this fraudulent site, with no luck. It's unfortunate that it has come down to this, but we see no other way. It makes no sense to feed brilliance and creativity to someone who wants to steal it for their own gain. 

  We want to thank all of our lovely supporters who have made Family Fun Friday something to be proud of. We have loved hearing from you and seeing the exciting things you were doing to bring your families closer together; how you had incorporated elements of fun you'd seen on our blog into an activity you planned. We have loved every minute of this adventure with you! Thank you all for making Family Fun Friday so fulfilling and worthwhile. Thank you for all the love and support you have given to us over the years. It has been a pleasure! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts! We love you!

Love,
The Family Fun Friday Ladies

Mar23

Family Fun Friday 2013-03-23 00:27:00

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Family Fun Friday 2013-03-23 00:27:00
 

  Today is a sad, sad, sad day for us here at Family Fun Friday. It has been brought to our attention that another blog has been taking our ideas and posting them as their own. Using our work, word for word; pictures, signatures and all, as their own. It is a disturbing discovery to find that since November 2011, someone has been shadowing and duplicating our every move.

   Four years ago, when we started Family Fun Friday, we wanted to share some of my family activities and ideas. Our main reason we started our blog all those years ago was to inspire families to have more time together and give them ideas of things to do together through posting things we had done that we thought brought our little families a little closer to one another. It was a project that we put our whole heart and soul into. Coming up with new, creative, fun ideas is not always an easy task. We put a lot of time and effort and our own money into coming up with new, fresh ideas to share with you, our friends. In the end, it has always been worth it.  We have always felt flattered and over joyed when we see our ideas linked up and posted on other blog. People have always been respectful and given us credit for the time and effort we put into our activities. To us, it is the greatest form of flattery. Nothing makes our work seem more meaningful than hearing you like our ideas enough to try them and post about them. We love it!

  However, it was a devastating blow to see all our hard work posted on another blog in a way that made them appear to belong to that blog. We have never felt so violated. Words cannot express how unsettling it was for us to find pictures of ourselves, our children and our homes on a complete stranger's website. Pictures that we had posted on our site, stolen and misused, without permission. Violating our personal property and infringing upon our copyright. The way this blog owner had taken our post...it makes us all feel sick and deeply hurt. It is shameful!

  What this person did is wrong. Plagiarism is never okay. As a result, we here at Family Fun Friday are taking our site down. It breaks our hearts to see years of hard work and dedication wasted. We have tried and exhausted all other avenues to take down this fraudulent site, with no luck. It's unfortunate that it has come down to this, but we see no other way. It makes no sense to feed brilliance and creativity to someone who wants to steal it for their own gain. 

  We want to thank all of our lovely supporters who have made Family Fun Friday something to be proud of. We have loved hearing from you and seeing the exciting things you were doing to bring your families closer together; how you had incorporated elements of fun you'd seen on our blog into an activity you planned. We have loved every minute of this adventure with you! Thank you all for making Family Fun Friday so fulfilling and worthwhile. Thank you for all the love and support you have given to us over the years. It has been a pleasure! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts! We love you!

Love,
The Family Fun Friday Ladies