Creative Family Projects, Games and Activities: Exciting and Practical Activities You Can Do Together

Suggests projects, including family histories, comic books, keepsake boxes, holiday decorations, homemade games, treasure hunts, emergency rehearsals, talent shows, hikes, pets, and handicrafts

Most family-activity books focus on entertaining the younger set (preschool and early graders), but this collection will supply summertime and year-round diversions for all ages, even intergenerational fun. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles can join in with parents, teens, and children to create and play a family trivia game or some of the imagination stretchers suggested here. Often the authors recommend that an activity, such as a family meeting or disaster-avoidance rehearsals, become a regular event. Here is a medley of exciting and enlightening ideas that will challenge the TV for a family's attention. Denise Perry Donavin