Dave and I like to take little overnight trips to small towns around Minnesota. It's a chance to spend time with each other without the chaos of the kids or the feeling that we should be doing something "more important" like washing laundry or mowing the lawn. We also like to pick up a little memento from each town.
On a warm BEAUTIFUL late-winter weekend we traveled to St. Peter. While we were there, we ran across this set of Table Topics for Kids cards. It's been a Sunday tradition ever since to pull out two or three cards and go around the table to share our answers. The questions aren't anything genius, but they get us talking about things we wouldn't normally talk about, such as...
Are you afraid of anything?
What would you love to invent?
What would you choose to come out of the school drinking fountain instead of water? (ice cold milk, of course!!!)
What's your favorite breakfast? (Whole Wheat Pancakes win!)
The set of cards was kind of spendy (just shy of $20, I think), so for you crafty do-it-yourselfers, you could make something similar. I plan to make a set of my own once we've gone through all of these. I'm thinking...
1. Brainstorm ideas for questions. There are tons of journaling ideas out there on the internet so a quick search would probably yield some good ideas.
2. Type the questions up on Microsoft Word using two or three columns or Microsoft Excel using big square cells.
3. Print them on cardstock.
4. Cut out the questions so the cardstock is about 3 inches square.
5. If you want to get fancy, mount the question cardstock on some fun printed cardstock so the back of each card looks interesting.
If you have suggestions for some thought-provoking questions, write them in the comment section below. I'd love to get some questions typed up this summer and attached to this post to share.