Screen-Free Week is 7 days all about taking a break from digital entertainment and spending more time with family and friends, getting outdoors, and being more active and creative. Sometimes it's easy to forget that there are other things to do besides spend time with our devices, or it has just become a habit to use them, so this international celebration helps to remind us to step away from our screens to do other things.
Here are 25 ideas to get you started finding things to do without your devices:
1. Take a walk/hike
2. Read a book
3. Learn to juggle
4. Learn how to knit/crochet
5. Have fun painting
6. Start a garden
7. Cook unique dinners each night
8. Teach the kiddos how do the laundry
9. Practice your handwriting skills
10. Try a new sport
11. See how many Little Free Libraries you can find in your town
12. Have a picnic
13. Take outgrown clothes out of your dresser and donate them
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14. Plan and then take a long bike ride (pack that picnic lunch too!)
15. Make your own musical instruments
16. Teach someone else how to do something cool you can do
17. Race your friends
18. Ask an adult about yard games they played when they were kids
19. Make slime... try this recipe!
20. Help someone in need / ask your neighbor if they need help with something
21. Weed a garden/flower bed
22. Organize your room
23. Ask your parent/guardian how you can help them
24. Print and do one (or all 3!) of our free scavenger hunts
25. Play a board game with your family or friends
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Laura Miller is the Publisher of Macaroni Kid Appleton-Waupaca-Oshkosh, Wisc.
