Snow Day Activities to Save Your Sanity. Feeling cooped up? Here are a few activities to help keep you and the kids busy on a snowy day!
Laundry Basket Skee Ball
If you can get all the laundry done and out of the laundry baskets, try a little game of indoor skee ball! This looks easy and requires few materials for some fun! I recommend using small plastic balls so the kids can do no damage (hopefully) though! Click here for instructions.
Create Snow Ice Cream
Mmmm this treat looks fun to make and has all the ingredients you already have in your house (plus the outdoor ingredient snow, which we have plenty of now). This mom used any leftovers for snow pops! Click here for instructions.
Paper Plate Ring Toss
Add this with the skee ball and you can have a little indoor arcade! You will need paper towel rolls and paper plates for this easy activity. Kids can help color the paper plates or decorate the paper towel rolls before set up too. Make it a competition or create a “high score” that the kids need to beat together. Great for gross motor skills! Click here for instructions.
Indoor Scavenger Hunts
I’ve come up with scavenger hunts for outdoors. Bundle them up, give them a plastic sack and send them out with a list like this:
- Something that is the same color as snow
- Something green
- A pine cone
- A rock bigger than your thumb
- A twig
Tub Time
I don’t care how old your kids are—they’ll be into this one. I load the tub with bubble bath, give them fancy drinks in fancy plastic cups and slather clay masks on their face. They think this is hilariously fun and if I keep the water warm, this can allow me about an hour of busy time. Whatever works!
Family Book Time
Ask that everyone grab a book or magazine and pile together in a cozy, comfortable place (couch, bed, homemade camp-out on the floor). Then, read to each other or read quietly to yourselves. Add a cup of hot chocolate and a view of the falling snow…heaven.
Movie Time
If all else fails, snow days are great days for cuddling and watching a movie. My kids just discovered the movie Encanto on Disney Plus and Latte and the Magic Waterstone on Netflix is one of my favorite kid films. Add some popcorn, blankets and pillows and you have a couple of hours of peace.
What snow day activities save your sanity? Tell us about it in comments.
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