“See a strong family and you are likely to see strong family traditions.”
National Stepfamily Day is celebrated by a family picnic. There is certainly other ways to celebrate the day. Making new family traditions is a way for a family to bond. Create your own National Stepfamily Traditions and continue them year after year. Here a few suggestions:
- Have a family portrait taken
- Dinner and a Movie
- 3. Make a “Blending of the Sand Bottle” Buy a long and narrow bottle. Buy small packages of colored sand. ( you can buy the bottle and sand and local craft stores) Have each member of the family pick a different color. Then layer by layer have each member pour their colored sand in the bottle. The bottle represents one united family.
- Game Night (play cards or your favorite board games)
- Make a Photo Scrapbook. Have each member make their page.
- Go to the zoo, library, museum, or art museum.
- Do a family activity like fishing, back yard camping, hiking, flash-light hiking (hiking at night) biking, miniature golf, softball, volleyball, horseback riding, bowling, or go for a long walk.
- Make a dinner that consist of everyone’s favorite foods and make this dinner every year for National Stepfamily Day. Set the table like a 4 star restaurant.
- For Stepfamily members who live far away, write them a postcard or an email.
- Make homemade ice cream or go out for ice cream
- Make “smores” in the fireplace or outdoors.
- Plant an indoor garden and watch it grow. Or plant fall bulbs. Start a Family cookbook. Write personal notes after each recipe about the individual family member's favorite foods.
- Start a Family cookbook. Write personal notes after each recipe about the individual family member's favorite foods.
- International night. Celebrate your family heritages by eating the traditional heritage foods. Tell your children about your heritage.
- Take the family to a “family fun spot” in your town.
- Take a road trip. Fill the car with gas, pack some sandwiches and drinks in the cooler and go for a drive. Sing songs or play car bingo.
- Plan a Family Room Slumber party. Don’t forget the movies and popcorn!
- Family “Get A Way” Night. Take the family to a nice hotel and go swimming and enjoy some time away from home.
- If your family is having some difficulties, (As every family can have) take this day as a time to try to reach out. Write letters to each other on how you would like to see things turn around.
- Craft Together. Make T-shirts with fabric paints. Buy a Table cloth and with permanent marker have everyone sign the table cloth along with a “positive message” about why I love my family.
