As the summer slowly slides along, and school has not yet started, and the lawn sprinkler has broken, and the bubble machine is empty, it’s time to create a new kind of holiday: Friday the Thirteenth.
This is not packed with horror movies and terrifying superstitions! This is Friday the 13th for family fun.
Here are thirteen non-scary ideas for your own celebration:
- Exercise by doing 13 jumping jacks or stretches or hops on one foot.
- Create a backyard (or all house) 13 obstacle course. Climb stacks of pillows, scoot under a table. Well, you get the idea.
- Bake cookies or muffins. Check out the recipe for these summer berry muffins! Give them away as baker’s dozen (13) gifts.
- Sleep out at night and count thirteen stars.
- Learn about black cats. Cut paper into 13 strips. Draw a cat image (or paste from a magazine) on each strip. Make a paper chain to decorate a doorway.
- Create a kiddie escape room. Choose a theme like trapped in a video game or stranded on an island. Follow 13 clues to “get out.” (This is a good for older kids to create for younger ones.)
- Decorate for Halloween. Get ahead of the curve.
- Watch fun semi-scary movies like “The Nightmare before Christmas.” (story by Tim Burton)
- Is the pool still open? Tread water or float for 13 seconds, 13 minutes? Remember as always, safety first!
- Name 13 animals or draw 13 animal images.
- Turn your house into a haunted house full of surprises, not terror.
- Find 13 books you have read. Make a game of looking only at the back covers and saying the exact title of each book.
- Extend the holiday by doing 13 good deeds this week. They can be as simple as hanging up a jacket, putting a used wrapper in the trash, or giving someone in the family a super hug.
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