“Kids Are Home..Ideas To Use”
- Give your kids spray bottles of colored water. Then let them paint pictures in the snow!
- Blow bubbles outside……When it is cold, the bubbles freeze and they are fun to pop!
- Do a cooking experiment together…make it math, science or reading related.
- Go for an ice cream cone even if it’s snowing or go get hot chocolate.
- Try ice skating at an indoor or outdoor rink for an hour. Hate the cold? Try roller skating at a rink.
- Open up one of their board games and play it with them. Monopoly can keep them rolling for hours!
- Got snow? Try building something like this, then use spray paint to emphasis parts of the snow building.
- Somewhere during the time they’re at home, bring out any homework that needs completing. Don’t wait until the last day of their vacation…too stressful..for all!
More ideas you can share? We need to know!! Leave them in the comments section.
Since we apparently got a ton of snow in the northeast (I’m currently still in VA and leaving for home tomorrow), these ideas will come in handy! The boys LOVE playing in the snow (hubby and I just don’t enjoy shoveling it).
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas, Donna!
Rachel,
I’m just coming out from being ‘snowed under’ by family home for the holidays! Now to the laundry, bed making, etc. Ahhh! Quiet!!
No snow here, but the ideas sound like fun. Yes, we had a wonderful Christmas!
Awesome ideas, Donna! Thanks for sharing!
-CK
You’re welcome, CK! Any tutorials in the works?
I wish we had snow! (Or at least I like to think I do- Lol!) And you’re right about the board games! My son loves to play this one he got for his birthday…but he can only play when his baby sister is napping. Great ideas and I love the polar bear!
Becky,
This could be a mess, but what about pretend snow? You could get several bags of cotton balls, spread them out on a sheet and then have your son make snow angels. Next, have a ‘snowball fight’. Put some in a box and shake over his head for a ‘snowfall’. Or even glue lots of cotton balls on a cardboard box one day, and the next day set it up like part of an igloo. Get styrofoam balls during the half off sales at craft stores and make snowmen with branches sticking out of them for arms.
Trust me on this…you don’t want real snow for any longer than one day!
Just a thought to start an idea…