Bring Your Family Together With Banner Flags

Many people talk about the problem of not doing enough things together as a family. It maybe just a little thing, but I see it as a potential great thing that can be done together as a family. And that is deciding together what decorative flags should be hung. You might be thinking, ok, well that took 2 seconds. Not necessarily. Sure maybe the actual final decision only took a few seconds, but it’s the process that’s important.

So how would this work. There are many occasions and/or holidays that people fly their decorative flags. So I’d suggest getting a banner flag calendar together. Then as a family figure out the occasions and holidays that you’d like to have the decorative flag represent. Usually a weekly change is good. That is to say, the flag will be left flying for 1 week before a new one is changed out. That’s a goal to achieve because that would require 52 flags if you were going to change it out every week. And of course, you don’t need a full 52 flags since most people don’t fly flags in the winter. But a good 30 flags or so would be needed for spring, summer and fall.

Another great thing about family time is responsibility. If you have multiple kids, you can assign them responsibilities to either changing of the outdoor flag directly, if they are old enough to do it, or be the responsible one to tell a parent that the outdoor flag needs to be changed and assist in the flag changing.

If you don’t have all of the flags that you need, then an additional family activity that could be done would be searching through catalogs or websites for additional banner flags that the family could purchase. What holidays or occasions would you like to celebrate that you don’t have banner flags for and put together a wish list that the family would like to buy (that fits in the family budget).

Decorative flags can be a great family get together activity and one that can be a great way to have that needed family time.