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37 MORE Activities to Do With Your Family on Your Front Porch

Your porch is a perfect little piece of heaven that you just might be overlooking. It’s a great place to spend time outdoors with someone you love or just by yourself. Even in this fancy, high tech world where we are constantly entertained by television, videos and game boxes, sometimes getting back to the basics is rather refreshing.

So without further adieu, here are 37 more ideas that you can do – a few zany ones. All are simple, most are free and something is here for everyone. Some of these activities will work best if you have a small table on your porch. Keep in mind that the weather and your porch lighting play a factor in some of these activities.So let’s get to it.

1. Teach yourself or someone else calligraphy
2. Decorate a scrapbook page
3. Tie some flies for fishing
4. Knit, crochet or cross-stitch – or teach someone else how to do that
5. Build something cool out of popsicle sticks
6. Decorate your porch for the season
7. Catch up on button sewing or mending
8. Learn to write a report based upon a niche you love and sell it online
9. Create a decorative paper chain using gum wrappers or origami paper
10. Write down family memories or label family photographs
11. Peel potatoes or carrots for dinner. Or shuck corn on the cob .
12. Teach your son or daughter to tie various knots
13. Plan a road trip together
14. Do some exercises – like weights or step aerobics
15. Practice yoga or meditation
16. Organize a junk drawer, file folder, craft bin or box of old stuff
17. Press flowers or leaves you collected using a simple press
18. Make something out of play dough or modeling clay
19. Read a stack of interesting articles that you’ve collected
20. Tune up your bicycle (if you know how)
21. Write some articles and get them published
22. Memorize a favorite poem or song lyrics
23. Reconsider what you are doing with your life
24. Keep a gratitude journal and share your thoughts with each other
25. Put together a model car or model airplane and paint it
26. Work on a project that you’ve always wanted to do but never thought you had the time (and let the daffodil principle go to work for you)
27. Count the money in your piggy bank
28. Come up with menu ideas for the next week or two – be open to suggestions from your family
29. Paint your porch columns or porch railings a beautiful color combination
30. Sew small yo-yos, then later you can make something from them
31. Watch a movie
32. Invite your neighbors over for cake on the porch
33. Sit with an elderly friend and let them talk your ear off for a while
34. Paint on t-shirts
35. Draw up a plan to move your life in the direction in which you want it to go
36. Clean and rearrange your porch furniture
37. Think of all the things you could sell on eBay or give away to someone else

Bonus: I just couldn’t stop at 37, so here are a few more for you. I would love to hear your ideas, too!

1. Get a couple buckets of warm water, some paint brushes and let the kids ‘paint’ the porch
2. Get a memory book and challenge each other to some memory exercises
3. Work on a Rubik’s cube
4. Play school, house or super heroes with some little people
5. Do absolutely nothing but enjoy the peace and quiet

Dream up your own reasons for spending time on your own front porch with your family. It just might improve the rest of your life, too.

About the Author

Mary Morris is a self-proclaimed porch lover and grandma to 7 sweet grandkids. Mary is one of the co-founders of http://www.front-porch-ideas-and-more.com, a site about everything related to front porches and more. Check her website often for great front porch designs as well as ideas for landscaping and just plain enjoying your porch.

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