Winter brings a lot of worries, however that first big snowfall brings a ton of fun for kids. Here’s a quick list of some additional ideas that your kids may and may not think of.
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Snowball Wars– The first thing your children will need to do is build their snow forts so they have some protection from their enemy. Once the forts are complete each team should make 10-15 snowballs and then begin the war, the team with a fort still standing wins. Or you could say those that haven’t lost a person have one.
Snow Art: This can be anything created out of snow, from the famous snowman, snow angels to even the igloos. Point the kids in the direction of the snow and tell them to make you something. You’ll be delighted in the creations and they’ll love just playing in it.
Catch a Snowman– Build a snowman and just like Frosty take a hat and see who can toss it and land it on his head. The person that actually tosses it and gets the hat to stay on the head wins. We used a baseball cap for this and it worked great.
Snowball Freeze tag– This was created by my kids, I’m unsure if this is a real game or not. Basically you play freeze ta but the person that is it (the tagger) must lodge snowballs at a person. But the balls cannot hit above the chest or the tosser is out of the game. Those that get tagged with a snowball must freeze until someone unfreezes them by tagging them.
Sledding– This can be done by a real sled, snow sled or even a cardboard box. If you use a box you will need to flatten it out and make sure it isn’t going to rip in half as you go down hill. Make sure to find some type of hill, even if it is just a small one, my kids use the driveway. My Walmart is currently selling snow sleds for $5, now they aren’t the fancy ones but these will definitely help them get downhill.
If you have it somewhat slick there is always ice skating, we don’t have any ponds or rinks near us so we won’t be doing this. I’ve seen some kids wearing regular tennis shoes on the ice and skating around though.
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