Being a FUN Mom

While browsing Pinterest earlier, this article on Kids Activity Blog caught my eye. I like to think I'm a "fun" Mom, and Kaylee has voiced it enough times in the past. So, naturally, I read the article to see if I've done or do any of the listed ways. Surprisingly, Kaylee and I do over half of the 20 listed below. I live to hear her laugh and giggle. It's the best. Therefore, I do the craziest things and find ways just to hear that sound. After reading the full list, I've added a handful of new fun things for us to do, and make memories from.

 

The article gives a total of 47 ways you could be a fun mom, but I've only copied and listed the first 20 below; you can refer to the article for the remaining 27. 

20 Ways YOU Can Be A Fun Mom!

1. Do pranks together – your kids will love bringing some surprise to another person’s day.
2. Make your kids laugh with a tickle fight, or one of the other 10 ideas on that page.
3. A great post on how one mom became the fun police.  We don’t always realize how much we hover over our children, trust them and take a tiny step back.
4. Have a silly face contest – see who can have the wackiest face.  Here are some face printables that will make your child giggle.
5. Have a family slumber party.   Everyone (even mom and dad) should bring their sleeping bags and camp out on the living room floor.
6. Take your kids out on a date and celebrate “family day”.
7. Have a playground scavenger hunt.  Use this list of things to find and do and travel around to new playgrounds to find them.  This is a great adventure for the family.
8. Make and share a milkshake, together – here is our peanut butter shake recipe.  You can even blow bubbles in the cup!
9. Read a story, or ten, to your child.  On a favorite book, put yourself or your child into the book, replace the name of one of the characters with your child’s name.
10. You can have a good time learning, too!  Here are five really fun ways to teach science.  Go outside on a hot day with a cup of water and learn about condensation!
11. Make super spy pipe-cleaner disguises together and talk to each other in your “spy voices”.
12. Have a bubble “war” – make bubble shooters and blast each other with bubbles.
13. Find an app and play *together* – my kids love teaching me their favorite games.
14. And… turn off the devices, have a afternoon focused just on your child – here are great hands-free mama tips.
15. Tell your kids a knock-knock joke.
16. Give your kids a big canvas to paint on.  Here are eight different ideas like throwing away the paper and try painting on an old fence, the windows (with window markers, of course) or the bath tub.
17. Give your kids a piggy back ride… and if you are a dad, here are another 25 tips for connecting with your kids
18. Go on a road-trip – for ice-cream.  Go on a meandering ride with your kids and stop for ice-cream on the way home.
19. Take a moment every evening to tell your child how much you love them and talk about the fun things you did together – reflect on family time.
20. Have a song that is just for you and your child… be silly and dance to it.

 

These really are some great ways to enjoy your kid(s) while creating everlasting memories each of you will cherish for the years to come. Kids really do grow up much faster than we ever could imagine. The years have literally flown by since K and I had Kaylee 7 years ago. We make sure to enjoy this time with her as much as possible because it will be gone in the blink of an eye, and we will never get these years back. Don't take the time with your kids for granted. Make them laugh, be adventurous, and create memories for them to look back on. You'll never regret time spent as a family. 

 

  Go and be the fun Mom that I know all of you are. 

 

Add your fun ways to the above list, and share them with all of the other Moms out there.