Only 40 days till 2018! Take some time every day to connect with y0ur kids and build family traditions to treasure this year (and for years to come!), starting with these 40 ways to bond with your kids.
- Make paper snowflakes together
- Play Q’s Race to the Top
- Deck the halls: Have your kids help hang holiday decorations
- Teach your kids to ice-skate
- Bake cookies together
- Go out for family dinner (get free Q Wunder prizes in Chick-fil-A Kid’s Meals while supplies last)
- Spend a lazy morning reading to your kids (or have them read to you if they can)
- Volunteer at an animal shelter (find kid-friendly options via VolunteerMatch)
- Sing to residents at a nursing home
- See a holiday-themed show
- Make up a story starring your kids
- Watch a Q Wunder episode together
- Let your kids make the family breakfast
- Help your kids wrap a gift
- Let your children pick out a gift for Toys for Tots
- Check out a holiday light show
- Help your children make holiday gifts
- Watch a favorite old holiday movie together
- Have a dance party to Q Wunder songs
- Make holiday cards
- Take turns listening to each other’s favorite holiday songs
- Visit long-lost friends or relatives
- Make up a family skit or puppet show
- Help your kids make the holiday table centerpiece, gathering pine cones from the backyard, apples from the fridge, etc.
- Pay it forward at a toll booth, parking meter or grocery store line while your kids are watching
- Play Mirror, Mirror
- Work on a jigsaw puzzle
- See how many animals you can spot on a family nature hike
- Do a fun run
- Make hot chocolate (bonus points for roasting marshmallows in the fireplace)
- Sing along to your kids’ favorite Q Wunder song
- Go sledding or skiing
- Have your kids go through their toys to make room for new and give old ones to charity
- Decorate a gingerbread house
- Listen to Q’s Wild Ride CD or color in Q’s Coloring Book during holiday travel
- Create a time capsule to open in five years
- Make music using pots and pans, wooden spoons, shoeboxes and rubber bands
- Treat your kids to a day trip to the destination of their choice
- Help your kids build a fort
- Celebrate a kid-friendly Happy Noon Year with a sparkling cider toast at the stroke of noon on New Year’s Eve
Help your kids with social and emotional skills all year long: Download the Q Wunder app to get original episodes, games, music videos and more!