1. Have a floor picnic
2. Use a bag of cotton balls for an indoor "snowball fight"
3. Let the kids play with measuring cups, spoons, bowls, and a bag of rice (keep a vacuum on hand!)
   
4. Treasure hunt through the house
5. Play with cardboard boxes: You can build robots, ships, doll houses, and more.
6. Shrinky Dinks: Jewelry, dolls, travel tags ... all sorts of fun.
7. Cupcake decorating contests
8. Board games
9. Making up our own board games
10. Re-illustrate/re-write old books
11. Roller blading: Check out an indoor rink near you!
12. Indoor playgrounds
13. Ice skating at a rink
14. XC skiing: The parents move so fast, everyone stays warm.
15. Snowshoeing (see above): If your kids are little, pull them in a pulk!
16. Fairy hunting: Sprinkle a little glitter around the house and imaginations can go CRAZY.
17. Video games
18. Make Play-doh
19. Go through summer clothing and pretend it's summer
20. Make frozen mocktails, fill the bath, and have a “beach party”
21. Build a fort
22. Make a mural
23. Bake Valentine’s cookies
24. Make homemade Valentines
25. Play paper dolls
26. Pop popcorn and have a movie-fest
27. Make homemade pizza
28. Make s’mores in the microwave
29. Charades
30. Pictionary
31. Name that tune
32. Library story hour
33. Toy store singalongs
34. Various indoor playspaces
35. Open pool time at the gym
36. Arts & crafts open studies
37. Bring the outside toys inside (given a good washing first)
38. Dance parties
39. Indoor tag
40. Hide & seek
41. Fill the bathtub with snow and play inside
42. Bubble blowing
43. Homemade bowling with balls and bottles
44. Round Robin storytelling
45. Ring Around the Rosy 
46. Indoor camping: Bring your sleeping bags into the living room, tell ghost stories, and all sleep there.
47. Reading books
48. Trying on Mommy's clothing
49. Playing "beauty shop"
50. Making snow ice cream

How do you spend winter days?

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