In this photo, people are on a tube ride a slide covered with snow during the Ice and Snow carnival at Taoranting park in Beijing, Jan. 30, 2017.REUTERS
About one hundred students recently participated in a snowball fight at the Central Park in Illinois following last week's blizzard that has dumped over a foot of snow in parts of northern Illinois. Many schools have been forced to cancel classes due to the risk of further blizzards and snow storms. If you are worried about what to do to keep your children occupied both inside and outside the house, don't panic, for here are a few options:
Children get hit during a snowball fight near Norden, California, Dec. 5, 2015. REUTERS/Max Whittaker
Make a beautiful snow globe at home. You can use a strong glue to attach a plastic toy to the inside of a jar lid, then you can add baby oil and glitter for a homemade snow globe. It makes a fun souvenir, and you don't even have to step out for this.
To get your kids to stay indoors during a snowy day might be difficult, but they can move around in the house and play fun games. For example, you can make sticky spider webs with them or just make lines using tape and see how far your children can jump.
You can make warm cookies to suit you on a really cold day. What could be better? Try allrecipes.com's three-ingredient peanut butter cookies. All you need for making it is one cup of peanut butter, one cup of sugar and one egg. Mix these together, shape them into balls, place on a cookie sheet, and bake for six to eight minutes at 350 degrees.
Scavenger hunts inside your homes are also fun activities. You can freeze snow with coloured water and keep them in cups to play scavenger hunts later. Place as many clues as possible all around the house to make the kids work more and thus invest more time into the game.
Arts and crafts are another way to keep the kids busy. Threading anything is a great calming "busy" activity. You can thread a necklace with straws, or make a bird feeder by cutting an orange and filling it with cereal, or you can use beads to make something for your childrens' friends at school.
Children from Brooklyn play with a snowman at the Dumbo area in Brooklyn, New York, Feb. 22, 2015.REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Once the weather gets better, get ready to go out and have fun in the snow with these five interesting activities:
Have a snowball fight. Divide your family into teams, then start throwing snowballs at each other. A suitable suggestion would be to save this game for the last so you can go inside, dry off yourself and have some nice hot chocolate.
You can go tubing beacuse beach toys aren't just for sand. Let your kids sit in inner tubes and then let them race each other to the finish line using just their feet.
Make a huge circle in the snow with the help of a branch and have a snowball-throwing contest. Make a target using a bottle that has coloured water in it. This could improve your child's targeting ability.
Play tic-tac-snow, which is quite similar to what you play on paper. Choose two players to go for the championship in this classic game. Use crisscrossed sticks to make Xs and pinecones to make Os.
It's a lot harder to do hula hoops when you are all covered up in your warm clothes and foot deep in snow. Grab a few hula hoops, and have a contest to see who can last the longest.
