Our Family Fun Friday features this week include some truly original ideas for planning some intentional family play. We have helpful printable schedules to help your family establish a back to school routine, fun games to take advantage of the last few days of summer, inspiring words for kids, and ideas to add a bit more adventure to the time you spend with your spouse. Our featured recipes include delicious dessert bars with yummy chocolate, peanut butter, pineapple and coconut. If you have kids you’ll love our round up of back to school tips, games, and memory-making ideas. And finally we have some “Out of the Box” ideas for ways to save money on everything from books to toys. You’ll never run out of great ideas for family fun at Family Fun Friday!
Every week we feature the best link-ups on the web with free printables, games, activities, money-saving and organizing ideas, recipes and more. If you are looking for the best tips, links, resources, freebies and more – you’ve come to the right place! Welcome to the Family Fun Friday community.
Family Fun Friday is all about connecting as a family. We feature great ideas for family fun, and things to help moms get things done so they have more time to spend doing what they love to do – be with family! If you like Family Fun Friday, help this blog party grow by giving it a +1 on Google+. Thanks so much!
Family Fun Friday
I love my co-hosts Stephanie, Carly and Danita! Your links get four times the exposure as they will show up on four blogs at the same time. Woo-Hoo! Each co-host is featuring her top picks from the party so you get an increased chance in being featured as well. Each featured post will be pinned by the hostesses so be sure to link up your best!
Meet our Family Fun Friday hostesses:
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| Monica created Family Fun Friday and blogs at HappyandBlessedHome.com where she shares free preschool tools and printables, encouraging words for moms, and ideas for having fun together as a family. Follow: Blog / Facebook / Pinterest / Twitter /Google + / Bloglovin’. Monica will feature Family Fun Posts. | |
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| Stephanie Kay is a busy homeschooling mom of 5. She blogs at Everyday Family Living where she shares practical ideas for home organization, family activities, books and education, and health & fitness. Follow: Blog / Facebook / Pinterest / Stephanie will feature Money Saving and Organizing Tips. | |
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| Carly is an adoptive mama and piano teacher who blogs at Africa to America. She writes about globalism, compassion and motherhood. Follow: Facebook / Pinterest / Twitter. Carly will be featuring posts on kid learning and crafting. | |
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| Danita enjoys blogging about cooking and shares yummy recipes on her blog OTasteandSee. Follow: Blog / Facebook / Pinterest / Twitter /Google +. Danita will feature Delicious Recipes. | |
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If you’re a mom keep reading because we have some wonderful fun ideas to inspire you with your little ones and family. My blogging friends are linking up craft ideas, fun in the kitchen, preschool & homeschool ideas, and ways to spend time as a family.
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FREEBIES – Back to School Fun!
In case you missed it last week – be sure to take advantage of my limited time offer for FREE Preschool Circle Time Morning Board Printables. It’s a subscriber freebie and a wonderful tool for educational enrichment. I also published some FREE Princess Birthday Party Printables. If you have a little princess in your life, you’ll want to download your copy {no subscription required for the princess printables}.
AND, it’s not too late to take advantage of a FREE 5″ x 7″ Photo Enlargement at Walmart – check the post to find out how and I’m sharing a fun Del Monte fruit recipe.
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Special Thanks
Thanks to all my blogging friends for linking up last week at Family Fun Friday. I have a special YouTube Video for you at Thank You All My Blogging Friends! So many great ideas, crafts and things to do! If you link up, you permit me to use your pictures/ideas as part of future posts and/or social media. Now on to some fabulous posts for moms.
Special Announcement!
We’re looking for a few more Co-hosts for Family Fun Friday! With the holidays coming up we need to expand our team as some weeks we’ll need to rotate between hosts to accommodate for travel for the holidays, etc. If you would like to be considered, please click this link and fill out the google form.
Co-hosts will get to be a part of an exciting link up party featuring some of the best bloggers on the web. We have over 200 bloggers linking here weekly and over 2,000 subscribers with every post. It’s a fantastic way to make new bloggy friends and meet new readers! 
Featured Bloggers:
One of the things I love about Family Fun Friday is being able to feature some of the most creative and original ideas on the web for having family fun and this week is no exception. I think you’ll enjoy some of these fabulous tips for helping kids transition back to school with easy routines, fun games to make summer memories last a little longer, words to inspire your kids, and adventures to embrace life with your spouse. Family Fun Friday is about connecting as a family and I hope these wonderful posts to inspire you.
1. Check out this awesome post by Making Mama Magic. Natalie created a super-fun family evening using glow sticks! The epitome of Family Fun!
2. Jodie over at Growing Book by Book shared some creative and crafty ideas for Making Books with Kids
3. Our friend Barb from A Life in Balance wrote an excellent guest post over at The Super Mommy Club about establishing routines for kids to help them transition for back to school.
4. There’s Just One Mommy shared an adorable idea to cure the end of summer blues – a Water Wing fishing relay game.
5. And having fun with kids is important but taking out some time for adventure with our hubands is important too – so I loved Gaye’s great ideas for 12 Adventurous things you can do with your husband on her blog Calm, Healthy, Sexy. She writes, “I want to encourage (prod, push, annoy!) you to think about controlling your family’s schedule and creating margins in your life so that you do have time, every now and then, to enjoy an adventure with your husband.”
6. I found Sunu’s story of how Words of Encouragement helped her son overcome his fear of riding a bicycle so encouraging. If you have a minute stop by Marriage, Motherhood and Missions and check out her post.
Dessert Bar Recipes
Back to School and Fall can be a busy time of year but these quick dessert bar recipes make sweet snacking easy. With some of your favorites including peanut butter, granola, chocolate, marshmallows and pineapple, we’ve got loads of goodies to satisfy your sweet tooth. You can check out these good eats over at Danita’s blog O Taste and See. When you have a minute, show her a little bloggy love on Facebook.
Fun Activities for Little Ones
Its that time of year – Back to School and our fabulous blogging friends have loads of wonderful ideas to help your family get into the Back to School Swing. Carly from Africa to America has rounded up a terrific list of Back to School Ideas including crafts, recipes, games, and even a time capsule. Follow the link to Carly’s blog and if ya’ll have a minute stop by Carly’s Facebook Page and show her a little bloggy love. 🙂
Save money by thinking “Outside the Box”
So many wonderful ideas from last week with ways to save money. You’ll love Stephanie’s features this week which highlight some of the truly original ideas for our community of bloggers in her post Outside the Box. When you have a minute, show stop by Everyday Family Living and show her a little bloggy love on Facebook.
Thanks again for all your wonderful ideas! I hope these Family Friendly and Fun ideas inspire you.
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For Family Fun Friday we’re going to start networking using Google+ – we hope you will join us! Button Code:
I pray you are blessed by this effort to share ideas on having Family Fun.
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I’ve also joined up with a few other bloggers to host a Pin for a Pin on Pinterest Party. If you have a back to school post that you would like to have repinned five times, hop on over and share your link! Pin for a Pin on Pinterest Month Long Link Party. 
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