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Snow Day Activities

Keep the kids busy and you sane while you're stuck at home today

The kids in Beachwood got a snow day today.

If your kids are anything like I was as a child, the excitement of a day without school quickly wore off when my three sisters and I couldn’t agree on a movie, or a game, or when we went outside to play snow house, a game where we outlined a floor plan in the snow and then fought over the master bedroom. I’m sure my grandmother, who watched us on these days, was really stoked about it, too.

Stop the fights and cabin fever before they start with five activities you can do with your kids at home today.

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  1. Bake. Everyone loves baking, and you probably have the basic ingredients for these cookies already in your home. If you’re feeling really creative, get out that food coloring and let the kids choose colors for their cookies.
  2. Play a game. Here’s one idea and there are lots more for every age group at ParentDish.
  3. Get crafty. You don’t have to be an artist to come up with great activities with your kids. Challenge them to search the house for items to use to make a snow day collage: an extra button from the inside of their winter coat, winter images from those old magazines on the coffee table, the label from the hot cocoa you made at breakfast.
  4. Get outside. Take a walk through the neighborhood with the kids and your camera and ask them to help you find pretty or interesting images. If they’re old enough, let them take the photos themselves. When you return home, make a slideshow together – let them decide the order and captions – or, better yet, submit them to Beachwood Patch!
  5. Make movies memorable. It may come down to watching the same movies again, but use your familiarity with Bambi to make it interesting: ask the kids to count the number of times Thumper thumps, or to be the first to touch their noses when Friend Owl appears onscreen.

And if these aren't enough, here are 15 more ideas from ParentDish.


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