Top 10 Fun Things Stepfamilies Can Do to Celebrate Spring

1. Attend a local or state fair.
2. Go on a picnic to a favorite park.
3. Build and fly kites (or buy them if you’re not the creative types!).
4. Camp in the backyard (or go on a weekend camping excursion).
5. Search for flowers, baby birds and other spring creatures. Try and identify whatever you don’t recognize. (There are thousands of Internet sties that identify plants and animals with pictures.)
6. Take a bike ride together.
7. Plan and plant a garden.
8. Check out a local art festival, outdoor concert, or play.
9. Learn some of your local history by visiting sites you have passed for years but never visited.
10. Help kids do a bedroom “makeover” (and get spring cleaning done at the same time!)

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