April Fools Pranks | BBQs |
Back to School Rituals | Baking Together |
Beach Vacations | Bicycling |
Birthday Traditions | Camping |
Celebrating Accomplishments (e.g. good grades) | Collecting (e.g. adding to a coin collection each year) |
Cooking | Countdown Traditions (e.g. Advent calendars before Christmas) |
Crafts | Date Night |
Dinners With Extended Family / Friends | Drawing / Art |
Family Business Traditions (e.g. continuing a family business) | Family Chores |
Family Contests | Family Hugs |
Family Meals | Family Parties |
Family Photos / Family Videos | Family Prayer |
Fishing | Food Traditions (e.g. Pizza Night) |
Fruit Picking | Full Moon Viewing |
Game Night | Gardening Together / Homegrown Food Traditions |
Greetings (e.g. always welcoming family members when they return home) | Halloween Traditions |
Hiking | Holiday Traditions (e.g. decorating a Christmas tree) |
Ice Skating | Inside Jokes |
Listening to Music Together | Measuring Kid's Height |
Movie Night | Museums |
New Year's Eve Traditions | Outdoor Games (e.g. tag) |
Pets / Walking Pets | Picnics |
Playing Sports | Professional Traditions (e.g. a family of doctors) |
Reading / Bedtime Stories | Religious Observances |
Remembering Loved Ones / Ancestors (e.g. grave visit) | Restaurant Nights |
Rites of Passage | Road Trips |
Saying Goodnight | School Traditions (e.g. generations that went to same school) |
Screen Time Limits / Digital Detox | Seasonal Traditions (e.g. BBQ on first day of Spring) |
Shopping Together | Singing / Karaoke |
Skiing / Snowboarding | Stargazing |
Swimming | Television Nights |
Theme Parks | Time Capsules |
Travel | Vacation Homes & Cottages |
Video Game Night | Walking |
Watching Sports | Water Fights |
Water Parks | Weather Traditions (e.g. snowman on first snowfall) |