Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Snow Day Activities

So for the third time this winter we are "snowed in". As a stay at home mom, to a preschooler and a toddler, keeping the kids occupied and active with something other than the T.V. can be a chore, and a test of my creativity. These are 10 of our snow day activities, and I'd love to hear what other mother are doing so I can steal some of their ideas.

1) The kids made sugar cookie dough, I let them mix it with their hands.
2) After refrigerating the dough for a few hours, we used it as a play dough substitute and formed them into various shapes.
3) I then created paint for our creations using evaporated milk and food coloring. They had a blast painting!
4) finally we baked our creations and had a tea party
5) We made an obstacle course around the house. (Crawl under the table, through a tent tunnel, jump on a mini trampoline and land on the couch)
5) Cheap balloons from the dollar store have provided hours of extreme fun and some science experiments with static electricity. (making our hair stand up, rubbing on our hair and sticking it to the wall, running around in our socks to see if the static will transfer to the balloon and make it stick to the wall)
6) Snow ice cream! I sent the bundled up kids outside with a bowl and a spoon and gave them a task to fill the bowl with WHITE snow. When they came in we had warm milk and made up some ice cream.
7) The Wii game, Just Dance For Kids, has provided my kids with a lot of physical activity. Silas loves, Shake the Sillies Out, and Sydney loves, If Your Happy and You Know it.
8) Creating paper snowflakes and coloring them
9) I've been getting the kids involved in the kitchen
10) We read lots of books!

2 comments:

  1. Grandpa always puts a couple smarties candy in the balloons to create a maracca. As my girls have grown, board games, barbies, "spa" days are some of our favorites.

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  2. I love the smartiees idea! Those are my kids favorite candies!!!

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