Keeping Kids Occupied on Cold Winter Days

 I woke with a raging headache and laid in bed watching the snow falling and piling up.  I knew all the local schools had a snow day and I thought that sounded just great.

I quickly realized without turning on screens, the kids would be turning to me every 5-10 minutes for ideas on what to do so I turned to Pinterest and found some great activities to keep us busy today.



These are the ideas I came up with:

1.  Play in the snow-- we made some great snow castles with all our sand toys.








snow castles 

2.  Cook a nice big breakfast-- we made choc. chip pancakes and scrambled eggs,  Yummy!

3.  Abstract painting with finger paints on real canvas (Michael's had their 2 packs of canvas for 7.99 and they were buy one get one free so I got 4 for $8!)

4.  Making a town on a dollar store shower curtain

5.  Break out the craft and activity kits they got for Christmas

6.  Make Fake Snow dough, a differnt type of senenory dough, or bring in trays of snow from outside.


Trying out the ice cream dough

I ended up adding more corn starch so it wasn't so sticky and was more like regular dough

7.  Make snow Ice cream--  since they'll def. want to eat the ice cream dough and they can't. 

8.  Make Sharpie/ tie dye t-shirts.

9.  Make a blanket fort

10.  Eat lunch or dinner in the fort and listen to some books on Cd. 

I guess I needn't have worried.  They had a fun filled snow day playing outside all day long; even fighting with me about coming in for lunch.  They were soaked and I wanted them to at least dry off even if they didn't want to eat but it was a battle.   I was happy that for once they were arguing to stay outside instead of arguing to go outside.   As soon as they dried off they went right back out!

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  1. Oh my word I have just followed your link to find out about snow ice cream and I can't tell you how excited I am about it! It's such a brilliant idea! My kids would love it. Sounds like they had a great snow day and you have loads of ideas ready for the next one too! Thanks for sharing with #DreamTeam x

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    1. Thanks! I tried some of the snow ice cream and it was pretty good.

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  2. Where were you when my kids were small? These are some great ideas. Thank you for sharing at #WonderfulWednesday! Make sure to do something nice for yourself this week!

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