Screen-free activities for families

For the 8FOR8 Challenge, we encourage you to spend time together building bonds and having positive experiences that don't include electronics. We also feel it's important to work on your own personal strengths during this time so we had the TotumLink team add their favorite family activities (sans electronics) to help you work on individual growth and spend quality time with your family.

SCREEN-FREE FAMILY CHALLENGES

• Hug each member of your family for 8 times each day

• Play a board game each week as a family for an hour

• Engage in tactile activities with your family (block building, legos, crochet, sewing, cooking, wood working, etc)

• Go campingTake a hike - a great opportunity for discussing animals that make their homes there or what plants and trees are native.

• Take a survival course together - learn native plants that you can eat, what to do in an emergency, etc

• Do a memorization challenge

• Have a family spiritual experience

• Create a family media plan

• Plan a road trip using an "old fashioned" map

• Cook dinner or bake a dessert with your family

• Volunteer

• Go to a petting farm, animal sanctuary or zoo

• Get CPR and First Aid certified together

• Start a new dinner time discussion where every night each person says 3 good things and 1 bad thing that happened to them that day. You'll be surprised that many times when reflecting, there was much more good than bad.

• Try a new form of exercise like Qi Gong, Yoga, Tai Chi or rock climbing

• Go bowling

• Plant a garden or become a member of a CSA and spend time digging in the dirt and reaping the rewards of your hard work

• Family Chalk art night

• Play four square as a family

• Family hide and seek- you’ll be surprised how much you missed it.

• Go to a community concert

• Escape room

• Cross country skiing, snowshoeing or sledding together- followed by an ambush snowball fight or course!

• Swimming

• Take your dog for a walk. If you don't have one, offer to walk your neighbors

• Minute to win it games

• Ikea scavenger hunt or thrift store scavenger hunt

• Attend a play and go out for ice cream afterwards to talk about it

• INDIVIDUAL CHALLENGE

• Get 8 hugs a day

• Take a few minutes each day to meditate, pray or just lay in silent gratitude

• Memorize an uplifting quote or scripture

• Get 30 minutes of exercise each day

• Do 3 thoughtful things for someone else

• Compliment 2 people todayKeep a gratitude journal for 30 days.

• Write 5 things each day that you're grateful for

• Call an old friend and talk to them voice to voice

• Spend an hour each day in face to face conversation with a person you care about

• Say I love you often - even to yourself

• Monthly Birthday Card night to send out birthday cards to friends and family

• Write a postcard or letter to someone who doesn’t suspect it.

• Get your nails done at your local beauty college