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Winter Snow Activities for Kids
We don't get a lot of snow here in the South, but his past weekend, we got a whole 2 inches at my house. The snow didn't completely cover all of our grass, but we had enough to enjoy. I love watching the snow fall and the winter wonderland it creates as it blankets the ground. I don't particularly like to get out in it, but my daughter took my granddaughter (her niece) out for a few minutes to play. The powdery snow didn't last long. As is usual around here, the snow becomes icy pretty quick. Many of you live in areas where you get lots and lots and lots of snow so you are able to get your kids out more often to enjoy your winter wonderland. Engaging in winter snow activities encourages exercise, imaginative play, and provides opportunities for family bonding. Let's explore a variety of winter snow activities that will keep your kids entertained and active, making the most of winter fun while it lasts.
Outdoor Winter Snow Activities
Winter Bowling Game: You can make an outdoor bowling game by stacking up a row of plastic cups. Stack each set of cups in a triangle tower. Encourage your kids to pack snowballs to use as bowling balls. See who can knock down the most cups. If you don't want to make one yourself, here are several cute options.
Winter Scavenger Hunt: On a sheet of paper, draw several pictures of outdoor items that can be found in your yard. You might draw an acorn if you have Oak trees. You might draw a pebble if you have pebbles near by. Other ideas are bird nest, flower pot, porch sign . . . anything your kids can look for around your house when it snows. Here is one you can purchase if you want to.
Snowball Target Practice: Set up a few targets on a fence or porch railing. Let the kids throw snowballs to see if they can knock down the targets. Choose a safe place for the kids and protect your windows.
Make ice ornaments: Pour wanter into shallow bowls. Tell your kids to place flowers, acorns, sticks, pebbles, evergreen leaves, or whatever they think is pretty. Place a string, yarn, or cord into the water, but leave a loop hanging out of the water. After the water freezes, break away the ice and tell your kids to hang their ornament masterpieces on outdoor tree limbs or nearby bushes.
Take a nature walk: Bundle up for this one. You can carry hot cocoa with you in a thermos for a warm drink along the trail.
Snow paint: Use colored water in spray bottles. Let the kids use their imaginations and go wild with this one.
Snowball in a Spoon Relay Race: Give your kids a spoon and line them up. Place a snowball in each spoon. Have the kids race to a line in your yard without dropping the snowball.
Create Snowmen or a whole snow family: Get the whole family involved. Each family member can make a snowman or snowwoman to represent himself or herself. The result is a snow family that resembles your human family.
Indoor Winter Snow Activities
Indoor Snow: If you have real snow, you can bring a big bowl of snow inside. Let the kids use plastic people, houses, and animals to create snow villages. If you don't have real snow, you can make fake snow using baking soda and shaving cream. Learn more about that here at Make Life Lovely.
Snowflake Art: Using glue, salt, and watercolor paints, kids can decorate beautiful snowflakes on paper. I suggest using cardstock. You pre-draw a snowflake on each sheet or print snowflake images using your home printer. Let the kids use the glue, salt and paint to decorate the snowflakes. Be sure to hang them up somewhere so that your kids can enjoy them for a while.
Indoor Balloon Snowman: Blow up white balloons. Help the kids glue the balloons together to make an indoor snowman. They can draw on the faces and buttons. You could pre-cut fabrics so that they can dress up their indoor snowmen.
Create a snowstorm in a jar: This is a fun science experiment for kids. Head over here to MomBrite to learn how to do this.
Play Pin the Nose on the Snowman: This is fun spin off the old game, Pin the Tale on the Donkey. You can draw it up yourself and cut out the carrot noses for the kids to pin or you can get a set already made up for you here.
Snowman Coloring Book for Kids: You can download my Snowman Coloring Book for Kids to your home computer, print it out, and let the kids start coloring right away.
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