Family Karaoke Night Ideas and Quick Tips for Stronger, Happier Families [Friday’s Fast Five 21st Edition]
Building a stronger, happier family is at the top of most parents’ list. However, we are busy! These weekly Fast Five ideas and tips are a quick way to brainstorm, check-in, and create the family relationships you really want. This week’s Fast Five includes family karaoke night ideas, how to teach kids about an oath of office, a service idea, and more. Happy Friday!
* These ideas are NOT meant to be a checklist or guilt trip of things we “should do.” Rather, they are intended to inspire you to find what works for YOUR family to learn, laugh, and love together. Remember to stick to the Simple Side of Parenting.
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What is Friday’s Fast Five?
Each Friday, we share five quick and simple ideas for families under the following categories:
- Something fun
- A Little Lesson
- A Service Idea
- Something Random
- A Quick Tip
As I try to simplify my own parenting journey and help others do the same, these help us think about what I feel is a simple version of good parenting…learn, laugh, love.
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With that, here is the twenty-first edition of Friday’s Fast Five. (You can find other editions HERE.)
1. Something Fun: Family Karaoke Night Ideas
Let your inner performers shine!
It’s always fun to simply crank the music up and sing along to your family’s favorites. Throw in some impromptu dance moves, and it’ll be a blast.
However, make a few simple additions and everyone really feels like the star of the show.
Family Karaoke Night Ideas
- Use a karaoke app.
- There are so many karaoke apps right now. Many you can download and try for free (typically with limited songs/functions or with a free trial). Smule is a fun one because it has a bar showing if your voice should be higher or lower, and it will give you a score after singing. Karaoke by Yokee is another app that allows you to record video and audio with fun effects. Both of these let you connect and share your songs publicly if you want to (which I’ve never done).
- Use YouTube.
- This is my favorite because it doesn’t require trials or figuring out a platform, you can cast it onto the TV if your TV has that option, and you can find virtually any song. Simply search the song title followed by karaoke. Sing King has a lot of great options, including a Disney Karaoke Playlist perfect for kids.
- Add fun lights.
- Put up a string of colored lights or download a simple strobe light app that turns your phone into a blinking furry of fun.
- Use a microphone.
- Even if you make your own pretend mic from a toilet paper tube or hairbrush, a microphone makes everything more fun.
You can purchase a wireless karaoke microphone
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2. A Little Lesson: My Oath of Office
This is a fun way to talk about personal responsibility.
Talk about how an oath of office in government, law, medicine, or other professions helps describe what the person promises to do. It outlines some of the personal responsibilities of the person.
Are there promises you want to uphold as a family? What are the personal responsibilities for each family member during this stage of life? If desired, have each family member write an “Oath of My Office.”
Related: 20 Simple Ways to Teach Kids about Politics
Wondering how to fit Little Lessons into your busy family schedule?
The two main ways to fit important lessons into your busy family schedule are to find spontaneous teaching moments throughout the day and to schedule family learning time each week. These two posts go into detail about these two ways and tips for making it happen with your family.
How Busy Parents Can Teach Important Life Lessons
6 Tips for Family Time that Teaches Life’s Most Important Lessons
3. A Service Idea: Give a Massage
This idea is not everyone’s favorite, but for those who appreciate it, it’s a great service.
Massage a family member’s feet or back. You can do a massage train or take turns giving each other a back massage.
Service is a great way to build a stronger, happier family. If you want more service ideas, request Raising Compassionate Children in a Conceited World, which includes 101 Service Ideas for Families.
4. Something Random: Pictures
It’s a great find when I need more storage on the phone quickly.
Do you have a system you love for organizing, storing, or printing pictures? If so, I’d love to hear about it!
5. A Quick Tip: Self-Care
What do you need to be healthy and happy? How are you making those things happen? Because you and your family are worth it.
Last week we talked about how to set fitness goals as a busy mom. Movement is a really high-bang for your buck self-care idea. Personal quiet time and connecting with others round out what I call The Big Three.
But sometimes there’s a lot of guilt associated with self-care. The truth is that when we practice meaningful self-care it’s good for us and good for others.
For more tips about making self-care happen in any season of life, check out The Top Three Self-Care Myths Debunked or download The Busy Mom’s Guide to Self-Care. The guide will quickly walk you through those three myths and help you find self-care that is effective for you and fits your life.
And that is Friday’s Fast Five!
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Building a Stronger, Happier Family
It takes time and intention to build a stronger, happier family. I hope Friday’s Fast Five helps you find the ways that work for YOUR family to learn, laugh, and love together.
We will never regret the time we devote to our families and relationships with our kids.
Have a great weekend with your family, know that you’re loved, and keep on lovin’!
Do you have a great idea for a future Friday’s Fast Five? Have a question or parenting struggle you want help with? Share in the comments, shoot me an Email, or schedule a call.
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I love the idea of family karaoke night! I don’t think my kids would be into it though. Booo on them! We are all very much touchy people in my house though and we often can be found sitting in a train on the couch giving each other foot massages! It is good stuff! Your mom meme totally cracked me up! Thanks for linking with me, Marielle!
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I think you could totally crush a solo karaoke night! 😉 Thanks for stopping by and adding to the conversation today Shelbee!