50 at home family activities to do with teens

Check out these at home family activities to do with teens so that you can spend some quality time together.

If you’re running out of ideas of things to do with your teens that by and large DON”T rely on a screen – just in case you’re sick of seeing their faces buried in one – here’s some ideas for you.

Creative family activities for teens

1. Teach them how to knot or crochet or watch tutorials and learn together
2. Get them to ask you these questions for married couples about their relationship and record the answers
3. Check out an upcoming National Day and work out how you can celebrate it
4. Create a playlist for other family members
5. Take a photo every day for a month that represents the best moment of each of your days. Make a video of it at the end of it.
6. Write poetry together – look up different styles such a Petrarchan sonnets and see what you can do working within a form
7. Make origami together
8. Make a family time capsule
9. Try a simple sewing project – these ones are perfect for teens (and moms or dads!) who are just learning
10. Sum up the lives of each family member in one sentence.
11. Take photos of your pets, aiming to capture their personality
12. Watch some YouTube make up tutorials and experiment with a new look
13. Do some research into a wicked problem think about how you would solve it
14. Write your life bucket list
15. Learn how to moonwalk

Food related family activities to do with teens

1. Create a new version of a family favorite recipe
2. Bake some patriotic cookies
3. Cook a traditional meal from a country you’d all like to visit one day
4. Do a chocolate taste test. Buy two boxes of assorted chocolates or candy bars. Create a score card. Blindfold the recipient and give them one chocolate or candy bar at a time and get them to guess the flavor
5. Invent a new family mocktail – use these ideas for inspiration
6. Invent a new family pizza
7. Make bread
8. Learn how to use chopsticks
9. Make homemade ice cream
10. Make sushi from scratch

Fun at home family activities to do with teens

1. Have an all night board game challenge
2. Check out a virtual tour of Disney World
3. Get old school and play knuckle bones or elastics
4. Go to Netflix or whatever streaming service you use and select the fifth show of the fourth genre and watch it
5. Have a movie marathon
6. Play Hunt a killer
7. Have one day when you watch the sunrise and the sunset
8. Rewatch your favorite childhood movies (for both mom and dad and your teen/s)
9. Set up a mini golf course at home
10. Research things about each family member – for example the meanings of your names, birthstones, Chinese zodiac and more

Physical family activities to do with teens at home

1. Have the whole family build up their push ups skills until they can do 50 consecutive press ups
2. Master a handstand or headstand
3. Practice goal kicking or shooting hoops in the back yard – set a record and then aim to beat it every day
4. Do an online yoga class
5. Hold a plank for as long as possible, aiming to increase the time you can hold it every day

Productive at home family activities to do with teens

1. Declutter a bedroom
2. Sort through your closets
3. Learn some basic DIY skills like repairing holes in walls, painting and unclogging a drain
4. Learn some basic mending skills like sewing on a button, mending a small tear and hemming
5. Start a basic woodworking project like building a birdhouse
6. Research some healthy habits and start one
7. Learn about time management
8. Start a vegetable garden
9. Start a side hustle
10. Learn about compound interest

If you’re looking for family activities you can do with your teen at home, then these 50 idea have you covered.

From creative to productive things, there’s something every family member will enjoy.

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