It’s daylight saving time soon, and that means the evenings will be even more cold and dark than they are right now.

And it’s hard. Sometimes we turn on the TV a lot because we don’t know what else to do. And watching some TV is fine, but I don’t really want to spend most of my evenings.

So what else can we do?

• Board and card games
• Going somewhere: shopping, eating, library, visiting others
• Looking at stars
• Reading–alone and together
• Cooking and baking
• Sign up for sports/classes/etc.
• Starting a new hobby
• Carpentry/building/housework
• Cleaning/organizing
• Listen to music
• Serving and thinking about someone else
• Creating something new: writing and drawing and arts and crafts
• Go to bed early
• Family home evening
• Singing and playing instruments
• Video calls with other people
• Jackbox games or other video games together
• Extra homework, learning, math, etc.
• Science experiments, engineering projects, learning boxes
• Swimming at an indoor pool
• Playing with toys
• Playing with paper, tape, cardboard, etc. (my kids make their own card games and houses and everything).
• Getting other craft supplies and playing with those
• Stations (like they do in preschool)

Any other ideas?