Looking for some things to do with your kids in the winter,
which are low-cost, fun, and low-stress? Try some of these:

Outdoors

• Go skating

• Go tobaggonning

• Have a big snowball fight!

• Go snowshoeing

• Make a snowman family. Decorate with old hats, buttons, scarves,
  etc.

Indoors:

• Make popcorn and watch a movie together

• Make sundaes for breakfast one Saturday morning

• Play Monopoly, Life, Sorry, Mastermind, Boggle, Battleship,
  checkers, or any of those other games you loved as a kid!

• Snuggle under some quilts and read a book from the library

• Teach your child a new craft, like how to knit or crochet

• Buy a 200 or 300 piece puzzle. Let the littlest children
  do the edge pieces.

• Get out the video camera and video your kids doing some
  everyday things

• Bring the outdoors in: Set up a "tent" in your living room 
  using sheets and cushions. Bring sleeping bags out, and have
  a picnic or tell bedtime stories.

• Make a giant ice cream sundae (I'm big on sundaes!): 
  Go to the grocery store with $10, and let the kids scout out
  all the things they can buy. Then get the biggest bowl you
  can find, fill it with all the stuff you bought, and dig 
  in altogether!

• Make all the cards you'll need for this year: birthdays,
  Christmas, thank yous, weddings, etc. Let the kids make
  new ones out of the fronts of old ones, and decorate with
  glitter. Or get out rubber stamps and make some yourselves! 
  You can even use pretty nature photographs you take with 
  a digital camera and turn them into cards!

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