Family Activities
These family activities are designed to help you and your children spend quality family time together while relating to the six action steps that Building Blocks is based on. These activities are meant to help you and your children improve communication, practice social skills, set and follow rules, spend quality time together, practice positive role modeling, and stay involved in each others' lives.
- Improving Listening Skills
- Teaching Children Manners
- Children’s Changing Feelings
- Family Caring Project
- Learn About Others
- Pantomime Game
- Library Activities
- Creativity Exercise
- Build a Family Emergency Supplies Kit
- Set Rules and Consequences To Teach Responsibility
- Teaching Honesty
- Sun Safety Checklist
- Make Them Laugh
- Playground Safety Search
- Working It Out
- Practicing the New Three Rs
- Fire Safety Hazard Hunt
- Reading Games
- Plan for Change
- Keep a Sleep Diary
- Making Exercise Fun
- Car Safety Chart
- Portion Control
- Know How To Stay Safe
- Who, What, When, Where, Why, How?
- Talking to Children About Friendship
- Grocery Store Games
- Set Rules Ahead of Time
- "Interactive" TV
- Mapping the News
- Be a Good Friend
- Be a Role Model
- Get To Know Your Child
- Set Rules and Consequences
- Share Thoughts and Feelings
- Spend Time Together
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