Here are some ways our family likes to get silly.
- Fashion show – complete with each person wearing an outfit made up of other family members’ clothes.
- Play Twister.
- Make up jokes. First, we all tell some of our favorites. Taking out a joke book is helpful. Then we make up our own. Certain themes are prevalent at certain ages—bathroom humor, things crossing roads, knock knock knock knock.
- We make up new words to our favorite songs. Pop Goes the Weasel, Rock a Bye Baby, and Row Your Boat seem to lend themselves to word bending.
- Backwards night – wear clothes backwards, walk backwards around the house, eat dessert first, watch a movie before dinner, try to say words, even sentences, backwards, talk about your day from dinner back to breakfast.
- Draw a silly mural. Use butcher block paper and markers or crayons. Put certain items in places they shouldn’t be: a sun in the ground, a foot for a head, an ice cream cone for a hat.
Guaranteed Silly!
Please, share your sillies with us. What does your family do that makes each other laugh, feel whimsical, or just get plain silly?
