Winter activities for kids – outdoors and indoors

Winter is dark and cold, but it has its own magic too. Here are ideas for making the most of it.

Outdoors

1. Build a snowman or a snow fort.
2. Make snow angels.
3. Look for animal tracks in the snow, and guess who walked there.
4. Make a bird feeder from suet and seeds, and hang it up.
5. Freeze water with leaves and berries in a mold, and hang the ice ornament in a tree.
6. Take a lantern walk in the dark.
7. Go sledding on the nearest hill.

Indoors

8. Build a blanket fort, and read with a flashlight.
9. Bake whole-grain rolls together.
10. Make paper snowflakes.
11. Play a memory game or a board game.
12. Draw winter animals: squirrels, hedgehogs, deer and birds.
13. Have an indoor picnic on a blanket.
14. Make an ice rink out of aluminum foil for toy animals.
15. Read winter stories under the covers.

Talk about winter animals

Where does the hedgehog go in winter? What do the birds eat? Winter is a great chance to learn about nature and how animals cope with the cold.

From My Mini Mindset

Want to bring these words into everyday life? Here are materials with your child’s name and a figure that looks like your child:

• The book about the first snow
• The winter animals