The Stay-At-Home Survival Guide: 11 Indoor Winter-Themed Activities

During this winter season, you are bound to have a couple of bad weather days that make it difficult to head outside. It can be quite challenging if your kids are pumped for the chance of playing with the blistering snow. I have come up with a list of indoor winter-themed activities your little ones may enjoy, from building a snowman in the comfort of your living room to creating your very own snowflakes.

1. Head to the Kitchen: While there are many holiday treats you can make with your kids they don’t all have to be loaded with sugar. While decorating snowman cookies can be fun, opt to use your holiday cookie cutters on various fruits such as apples, pears, peach and more into fun shapes.
2. Snow Experiment: If it snows in your area turn it into a mini science experiment. Have your kid scoop up some snow into a bowl and let her predict how long it would take the snow to melt once inside the house. You can also fill an ice cube tray with water and let your kid predict how long it will take the water to freeze outdoors.
3. Make Your Own Snowflake: Use kid-friendly scissors to cut snowflakes out of paper. Your little one can use watercolors to decorate the snowflake and hang them around the house.
4. Record the Weather: By using a thermometer outside your little one’s window, let her record the temperature each day of the week, morning, afternoon and night to see when it’s cooler and when it’s warmer. By the end of the week let her graph each day’s highs and lows. Use themed stickers such as suns, clouds, snow, and rain to make it more fun.
5. Snowball Fight: Roll up paper into a ball and stuff them into white socks. Hand each kid a bucket filled with those indoor snowballs and allow the fun tossing begin.
6. Winter Picnic: Place a white blanket, next to your fireplace, onto your living room floor and sprinkle some cotton balls. Brew some hot chocolate and serve it with a side of marshmallows and cookies, while playing a winter-themed family movie (including Snow Buddies, Happy Feet and Mr. Popper’s Penguins).
7. Build a Mini Cottage: If you have a large moving box and a few art supplies, you can help your little ones build their own mini cottage. Cut a few square holes out of the box for windows and a rectangular hole for the door. Let the kids decorate their cottage with paint, glitter, markers, stickers and ornaments.
8. Build an Indoor Snowman: Use two pillowcases to stuff clothes or even crumbled up paper and you have the makings of snowman. Use Velcro to help stack the pillowcase and to adhere the snowman’s eyes, nose and buttons.
9. Celebrate Your Winter Day with a Piñata: Use a cardboard box or a brown paper bag and stuff it with candy or simple white confetti (to make it snow) and hang it down a clear space in your house.
10. Create Structures out of Marshmallows: Use uncooked spaghetti and mini marshmallows to create any structure your child can imagine.
11. Indoor Scavenger Hunt: Allow your kids to solve riddles by hiding written clues around your home and end it with a treasure chest filled with yummy treats or fun stickers.