Put your stationary bike, treadmill or other exercise equipment in the kitchen, family room or another room where your family spends a lot of time.
Guidelines
All family members should be effective role models by participating in all of the guidelines below:
- Provide each child with one-to-one time every day.
- Sit down as a family for one meal each a day.
- Involve kids in snack and meal preparation and cleanup every day.
We are a busy family with 4 children ranging from 3-11 years of age. The three oldest children are very involved in school, competitive sports, church, and other group activities and true all-together-family time is rare and precious. Every night that all 6 of us can sit down for a family dinner our kids clamor to see whose turn it is to control "Days starting with....” If you can imagine a 3 year old rolling her hands around saying "Days starting with ......DADDY!" as she points excitedly to Daddy, it is pretty cute=o) Anyway, then Daddy tells about his day from beginning to end with all the highlights in between. Then the child in charge selects another member of the family to tell about their day, until everyone has had a turn. It has been a great way for our family to maintain a connection when getting pulled in several directions and something that we all look forward too!
We take walks as a family around the neighborhood and gather lots of leaves, berries, ferns, sticks, feathers (if we are lucky), flower petals (dried and fresh) and then we glue all our goodies on shoe boxes both inside and out. These boxes become fairy houses. Then we take Popsicle sticks, draw faces and use some of our leftover flower petals and leaves and make dresses for girl fairies and pants and shirts for boy fairies and we put them in the houses. 
