Feel like your family spends too much time in front of screens?
Take part in screen-free week! Screen-free week is a break from digital entertainment. This year's screen-free week is May 2-8.
Screen-free week is a chance to spend more time with family and friends, get outdoors, and be more active and creative.
Sometimes it's easy to forget that there are other things to do besides spend time with our devices, so screen-free week reminds us to step away from our screens to do other things.
Here are 25 ideas to get you started finding things to do without your devices:
1. Take a walk/hike
2. Read a book
3. Learn how to juggle
4. Start a knitting or crocheting project
5. Paint a picture
6. Plant a garden
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7. Cook something new
8. Teach your kids how to do practical household chores, like the laundry
9. Practice your handwriting
10. Try a new sport
11. See how many Little Free Libraries you can find in your town
12. Have a picnic
13. Clean out your closets and dressers
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14. Plan and then take a long bike ride (pack a lunch too!)
15. Make your own musical instruments
16. Teach someone else how to do something cool you can do
17. Host a neighborhood bike or road race
18. Ask an adult about yard games they played when they were kids, and then try them
19. Make slime... try this recipe!
20. Help someone in need
21. Weed a garden/flower bed
22. Organize a room in your house
23. Ask a neighbor or family member if you can help them with yard work
24. Print and do one (or all 3!) of our free scavenger hunts
25. Play a board game with your family or friends
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Laura Miller is the publisher of Macaroni KID Appleton-Waupaca-Oshkosh, Wisc.
