Winter Fun

Bundle up the kids and head outside this winter for fresh air and exercise. Try these fun ideas to keep kids active.

• Shovel snow into big piles. Provide child-sized snow shovels and encourage children to transform the large piles of snow into snow caves and slides.
• Make igloos with ice cubes or larger blocks of ice (freeze water in cardboard milk cartons). Build a town of igloos.
• Make colored ice cubes by adding a few drops of food coloring to water. Hide them around the play yard and let the children hunt for them.
• Flood a section of the play area so that children can practice “boot” skating.
• Supply nontoxic, water-based paint so that children can turn snow sculptures into colorful creations.
• Place a heated water dish near your bird feeders and observe the tracks of animals that visit it.
• Blow bubbles. Do they freeze? What happens when they land?

Helpful Websites

Winter Activities Kids Love - http://www.growingajeweledrose.com/2013/11/winter-activities-for-kids.html

15 Snow and Ice Activities - http://www.readingconfetti.com/2014/01/15-snow-and-ice-activities-kids-co-op.html

Build Animals Out of Snow - http://www.nwf.org/kids/family-fun/outdoor-activities/build-animals-out-of-snow.aspx