10 Fun Outdoor Activities for Stay-at-Home Dads
"Hey kids, let's go outside and see how far the trebuchet will throw a watermelon!"
July 1, 2012 - 9:15 am
4. Paper Airplane Competition
This is one of the most important skills you can teach your child. I spent much time in awe at classmates who could build paper airplanes that not only looked slick but flew from one side of the room to the other.
For starters, you could help your child make this one, considered the best paper airplane in the world:
Then, when everyone has exactly the same airplane, go outside and see who can fly them the best.
After that, ask them if they’d like to make one different from everyone else. There’s no doubt the answer will be, “Yes.” If you have materials ready, kids can pick out what plane they want to make, decorate it, and then once again compete for first place in your home’s air rally.
Hooray for Geocaching!
Great ideas for any family! We’ve been doing a smaller-scale version of the giant bubbles–I have to admit that my husband and I can be found trying to improve on our best bubbles long after the kids have moved on to something else. We’ll definitely have to try the pool and hula hoop.
We took our four grandsons, aged 2 to 10, fishing last week. Plus two honorary grandkids. Six kids, with four adults helping. We caught a bucket full of blue gills, which grandpa spent an hour carefully cleaning. He wanted the kids to be able to eat what they caught. And they did, chowing down enthusiastically, which surprised the heck out of us.
My daughter and SIL and the boys moved to CA from MN last year, following a job for my SIL. We miss them terribly. When they came to MN for a visit last week, we drove the seven hours from the UP to spend a couple of days with them. We offered to take the boys fishing, and my daughter said that’s the one thing we do with them that nobody else does. We all had a blast, and we made a LOT of great memories. The high point for me was helping the two-year-old catch several fish, too. He didn’t quite understand the process, and wound up throwing the cane pole in the water instead of the tiny little fish! We got it back, though. Great times!
What sort of man could decide to be a Househusband and still look at himself each morning with any pride? Essentially, he is a mangina.
Bingo.
No, folks, women and men are NOT interchangeable. It DOES matter who does what.
If Dad can make a living working at home, great. Wish I could, wish more dads could.
But DAD should be the breadwinner, not mom, and I don’t care if the feminidiots don’t like it.
Regarding activity #5:
JESUS CHRIST, THEY’RE MINERALS!
We’ve seldom been able to launch stray cats more than 60 feet with our catapult.
This year the daughter and I are planning on doing the Willamette and Columbia rivers from Corvallis, Oregon to Astoria, Oregon in our Prijon Excursion tandem kayak. If that goes well I expect we will do a week or two in the San Juan Islands and/or the BC Gulf Island in September.
The plan for next year is to do the inside passage, While I would like to do Portland, Oregon to Glacier Bay, that may be a bit over eager and we may need to leave from Olympia, Washington. We shall see.
Daughter is twelve; I think she should blog these adventures just to encourage others to indulge. If not, I probably will just to keep a record of the trips.
Thanks for the list of other things to do and I hope your ideas and ours lead others to their own adventures.
Mark Sherman