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Is the weather too cold and snowy at your house? Are your kids starting to drive you crazy because they can’t get outside to play? Here are some fun ideas to do with your children on those bad weather days.

1.) Bring the snow inside

Fill a large plastic container with snow and place it on top of a plastic tablecloth on the floor. Allow your children to build a small snowman out of the snow or you can use food coloring and experiment with color mixing.

2.) Have a concert

You can make your own instruments by using large oatmeal containers as drums and you can make shakers by filling one plastic cup with rice or beans and then connecting another cup (put the openings together) and tape together.

3.) Put on a puppet show

Use homemade sock puppets in your puppet show.

4.) Have an indoor photo shoot

Allow your children to dress-up in crazy outfits and then pose for the camera.

5.) Get out the boardgames

Memory, CandyLand, Hungry Hungry Hippos are good ones.

6.) Fingerpaint

Painting is a good opportunity to introduce color mixing, too.

7.) Bake

Bake and let your children decorate cookies.

8.) Puzzles

If your child is old enough, try doing a large interlocking puzzle together.

9.) Make snowflakes

Older children can use scissors to cut designs and younger children can color and decorate snowflake drawings with glitter and stickers.

10.) Frosty Scenes

Have your child use crayons to draw a picture on colored construction paper, then use a mixture of equal parts Epsom Salts and water to “paint” over the picture. When the mixture dries it will leave a sparkly and frosty look.

11.) Shaving Cream

Squirt some shaving cream on a plastic tablecloth and let your children explore in it. You can practice drawing shapes and letters in the shaving cream also.

12.) Paper Plate Snowman

You will need two paper plates, cut the outer rim off of one, and then glue the smaller plate to the larger one. Then let your children create and decorate their snowman by using a variety of arts and crafts materials. Items which work well include: construction paper, markers, crayons, glitter, wiggly eyes, pom pom balls, wallpaper and fabric scraps.

Enjoy the indoor time with your children and pray for warmer weather!

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