Happy Monday! I hope you’re staying warm in your little corner of the world. We have some crazy temperatures here lately (even for Minnesota!). I’m hoping it gets above 0 today. How’s that for a crazy wish? 🙂
Cold, snow or not, here’s a few ways to make some memories with your kids this week….
1. Make watercolor snowballs. Just bring in a pan of snow and give the kids some watercolor paints and paintbrushes. They can pack the snow into snowballs and then paint them. Store them in a bucket in the freezer until you’re ready to return them to the wild. 😉 You can decorate the yard with them or the kids can toss them, but let the kids know they should toss at targets like trees and not people since they freeze a little hard.
2. Go sledding inside! Get out a big towel and drag the kids around the kitchen floor. Kids can pull each other around, too.
3. Make a “gingerbread house” for the birds and squirrels. Get together some graham crackers, peanut butter or sunbutter and a variety of bird seeds and then assemble like a regular house with peanut butter as the icing/glue. Take a picture of your masterpiece and then leave it where it’s visible from inside so you can watch to see who visits.
4. If you’ve got snow where you live, head to one of the spots where the snowplows dump it off to play. It makes for instant mountain ranges!
5. Get glow in the dark paint and help the kids write secret messages and pictures on their ceilings.
6. Use kitchen gadgets to make supper fanciful. For instance, use a cookie press to pipe out mashed potato stars.
7. Make giant ice suncatchers. Here’s the easy instructions.
8. Make up a couple dozen fortunes and stash them in cereal boxes, snacks, the cookie jar, etc. Make some especially silly (Beware of odd rabbits today. You will have a monkey on your head….) and some sappy (Your mama loves you more than peanut butter cups. I’m proud of you…). Slip some in drawers and leave some for your sweetie, too.
9. Take advantage of the cold and do some cold weather science experiments. Vaporize hot water in the air, blow frozen bubbles, experiment with salt and water on colored ice, and more.
10. Start a pride jar. Every time you’re proud of your child, write the reason on a slip of paper and put it in a pretty jar. Encourage the kids to peek in their jars!
And with that, my pretties, I’m off to do the magical job of catching up on laundry! Perhaps with a whimsical side of kitchen cleaning… And a bit of hugs and kisses and crafts and silliness with some marvelous little people scurrying about.
Have a magical week!
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