Top Three Day Weekend Activity Ideas

Soon families throughout the United States will enjoy a much needed three day weekend of rest ending on Labor Day which falls on the first Monday in September.  

While some go all out in celebration of the meaning and intent of the Holiday others take advantage of the long weekend for rest and refreshment or enjoy rejuvenating activities to break the monotony of a laborious routine. This articles focuses on the latter. So how can you make the most of a three day weekend vacation?

Making The Most of Your Weekend Vacation

While many enjoy longs weekends throughout the year Labor Day falls on a Monday and is held near the end of the summer season, this gives workers the opportunity to take a long weekend that ends with Labor Day. How will you be spending this time? Activities often include picnics, barbecues, and swimming. 

School students view the long weekend as an opportunity to have one last chance for summer fun before hitting the study books and the weather starts to change from summer to fall. Adults may consider this weekend a time to exhale and recharge the batteries.

Many families spend at least one day of their weekend at a theme park or go camping. Others spend the weekend on a stay-vacation. Not leaving the home or town the live in. Other fun stay-vacation activities may include visiting the local zoo, museum, dining at local restaurants or enjoying entertainment at a movie or dinner theater. Checkout the three day weekend chart for great activity ideas.

3 DAY WEEKEND ACTIVITY IDEAS

DAY 1 -  Enjoy a picnic, camping, theme park, visit museums or local zoo. Take in a jazz or cultural festival opera or dinner theater. Catch up on your reading or your favorite movies. Watch or take fun family activity video. Visit a farmers market or enjoy fruit and vegetable picking. Have a yard sales and soak up the sun. Go out and fly a kite, fishing or boating expedition.

DAY 2 - Set aside a few hours to learn about and document your family history. Speed plan a family reunion on the next three day weekend. Do some bargain hunting. Catch non-perishable foods, craft, office and party supplies sales and stock up for the winter and upcoming family gatherings.

DAY 3 - Order out or dine at a local restaurant. If you're out of town plan to return home early enough to prepare for the next day and then relax. Wind down and put your feet up for a few ours before retiring to bed.

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Bubble Blowing Videos

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Reducing Costs Increasing Savings

Parents and grandparents of school age children also make use of the Labor Day weekend to acquire much needed school supplies and clothing ad drastically reduced cost by taking advantage of local and online school supply Labor Day sales. 

Regardless of the activities you choose make it your goal to allow the family to relax and rejuvenate for days ahead.

For more indoor and outdoor family fun activities consult your copy of Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Keepsake book, eBook or the event planning web app. 

Labor Day Weekend Activities For Kids.

It's Labor Day weekend, and whether you have kids sleeping over or not  you're trying to figure out what to do with a house full of kids high on adrenalin that won't leave you exhausted or break the bank. 

As they wind down children tend to be accident prone, irritable and less attentive to the needs of others. The key to enjoying the weekend is giving them something fun to do that is both intellectually and emotionally stimulating leaving each child with a sense of wonder, discovery and accomplishment.  What might that be? Read the following articles for great weekend activity ideas.

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Labor Day Weekend Ideas

The Labor Day weekend has arrived. Do you know what your family wants to do? You've got three days to fulfill wishes and rank up those points. Even better do it just because. Having family fun always comes with a rewarding payoff. 

If your family reunion is scheduled on labor day or you're spending it with the immediate family here are a few ideas to make for a family fun weekend. 

1. Get your video camera out and make a family fun day documentary of all the adventurous, intriguing and downright silly antics of the weekend.

2. Get your taste buds ready for a food and culture fest and visit the nearest Labor Day food festival.

3. Head for the hills. Grab your gear and take a hike at your local state park. Boat, fish, look for specimens and bird watch.

4.  This is a great time to talk about your family history in relationship to the varied jobs family members performed over the past 200 years to make ends meet. From nursing to nanny, door to door sales to office management, everything in between and beyond.
5. Already had your family reunion this summer? Get the family together. Look over photos and put together a fun family reunion slideshow or newsletter. 

Think you know your family members well? You might be surprised. Everyone has hidden interests and talents. Get to know your extended family members interests before planning the weekend using Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Social. It includes a database that's already loaded with demographic information like interests in sports, movies, books and music. A great resource for making your labor day weekend a special one.

If you're not entertaining Sunday or Monday it's a great time to start planning your next family reunion. So take time to be inspired. Take a look closer look at Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Social. You'll find a great Newsletter template in Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Social package. Try out family recipes, family reunion crafts and new ways to take family reunion surveys online. Download fliers, prewritten dinner programs and theme related itineraries. Select from 6 beautiful printable family reunion poems. Checkout the colorful family reunion t-shirt ensembles.

The interface provides access to all our standard event planning templates, printables, worksheets, ebook and reunion planning spreadsheet. What, don't have FRP Social yet? Good news The app is reduced from $49 to only $40 for a limited time. Go to http://family-reunion-planner.fimark.net and get started on your family reunion newsletter, slideshow and event planning.