FamilyFun focuses on exciting things that families can do together. It offers creative activities, party plans, family travel, and learning projects. It provides enriching experiences that parents and children can share.
History of FamilyFun
FamilyFun was founded in 1991 as a magazine for families with children ages 3 to 12 and now has 2 million subscribers. Its intent was to give families information and inspiration ideas about how to create enriched and memorable times together for parents and children.
Features of FamilyFun
FamilyFun presents ideas that are entertaining for the whole family, are relatively inexpensive, and easy to do. It covers topics such as:
- food
- crafts parties
- holiday celebrations sports
- games
- creative solutions to common household problems
- family challenges
- educational projects
- home organizaing
- home decorating
- foods that are fun to make to to eat
The travel section features:
- moderately priced U.S. destinations
- exceptional value
- catered to the needs of families
Creative Solutions use practical, innovative ideas such as:
- solving a problem that is common in families
- a game or homemade chart that excites children about doing chores
- a trick that persuaded reluctant letter writers to keep up correspondence with family.
These essays show how a great idea changed or inspired the family.
Departments in FamilyFun
Everyday Fun offers simple, fun, practical and inexpensive ideas and projects including:
- crafts
- games
- nature activities
- learning activities
- kid-friendly recipes
- outings
Family Getaway are first-person, process-oriented, and usually destination-specific articles. These may include:
- road trips
- insider's city weekend
- themed roundup of attractions or destinations
- new destinations
- great package deals
- season-specific outings
It does not include international travel or expensive American resorts or programs
Family Traditions are first-person, one page articles that highlights one family's favorite or most meaningful tradition. It is illustrated with a photograph of the family. Seasonal articles focus on some way in which the tradition has helped shape a family's identity or brought them closer together.
My Great Idea includes simple, clever ideas that solve common household problems in the form of brief letters from writers and readers.
Healthy Fun uses practical ideas and strategies for staying active, eating well, and feeling great. It has a light approach and conversational and often humorous tone.
Family Home contains creative and useful ideas for the home, yard and garden that are affordable and realistic. It includes:
- practical solutions for staying organized
- new product
- easy and unique ways to decorate
Our Favorite Things includes parent-recommended family entertainment products and gear, such as toys, books, DVD's, video games and music.
Writers guideline for FamilyFun
FamilyFun is aimed at activities and ideas for fun loving-creative parents which makes it different than most family-oriented magazines. It does not accept unsolicited manuscripts for feature stories however it will accept them for Everyday Fun, Family Getaways, Family Traditions, and Creative Solutions. Queries should describe the content, structure, and tone of proposed articles. There is a lead time of five months in advance of publication. This is especially important for seasonal material.
Read several issues of the magazine to become familiar with the type of material that meets FamilyFun's writers guideline.
Other magazines for families include:
Suggestion for Writing Personal Articles
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