Kris and I have been talking lately about how we felt like we weren't being as intentional in discipling our kids as we once were. With football/cheerleading 3 times a week and on Saturdays and church on Wednesdays and Sundays, it is just so busy. So, we decided to have a weekly family devotional time on Friday afternoons. We plan to do it pretty soon after the kids get home from school so that if even if there is something else going on that night, it won't get in the way of our family time. My friend Kelly and her husband, have a great website called Family Muscle. It has plans for family nights all laid out for you. It is a really awesome tool to help bring your family closer to each other and God. So we decided to try one of them out. We chose to do the Back to school Family night, even though school has been in session for a month or so!
I only had a day to pull together decorations. I just used stuff I had and a couple things from the dollar spot at Target. ( I will go ahead and apologize for the poor quality of the pics! I realized right before dinner that my good camera's battery was dead, so I had to use my son's old point and shoot!)
I really wanted to find some school trays but didn't have time to really search them out, so I just bought the styrofoam ones. We had rectangle pizza, corn, salad, school bus cookies and milk.
The food was really good! So good, that I think we'll have it more often!
After dinner, we took all of our broken crayons and melted them into round disk crayons. The kids really enjoyed doing this.
Once the crayons cooled, they really liked coloring with them.
After craft time, we played a few games like show-and-tell...
and Red Rover, Red Rover.
We ended with a devotion and talked to the kids about obeying their teachers, leaders and of course, parents!
We really had a great time and look forward to our next family night!
Now go check out this website and get started planning your family night!
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