*Ideas for Indoor Fun in the Winter. This is a holiday feature. Opinions are my own. Products were received.
Ideas for Indoor Fun in the Winter
Baby it is COLD outside! Even though it is cold outside, my kids will still venture outdoors, but not too soon after, they are back inside wanting to grab a warm blanket to cuddle up in.
So, I have to be creative in the cold winter months, to keep them active and keep their imaginations going full force! What better way to do those things than to encourage them to bring the outdoors in!! I have some Ideas for Indoor Fun in the Winter!
Some fun ideas for indoor fun in the winter can be simple. You don’t have to go overboard, the kids will have fun, regardless if there is a scavenger hunt going on or a slumber party in a tent. As long as I am near and participating, they LOVE anything I come up with. And, I let them come up with some fun ideas to do too. This way, we all get involved and just have FUN indoors!
Build a tent or fort in the living room. OR, if you want to go BIG, you can put up a HUGE 6 man tent in your living room for the kids to play in! Yes, I have done this on more than one occasion 😉
Camp Out in your living room! Now, this is FUN to do! Turn on a good family holiday movie, pop your popcorn and snuggle up in the fort you just built!!!
Grab The Terra Kids Boomerang and go to the front door, flail it into the air and have it come right back to you! No need to go outdoors to retrieve it!! Simple fun, you just can’t go wrong with that!
Shadow puppet fun! Have the kids grab their Terra Kids LED lamp and get into your sleeping bags! It is time for some shadow puppet fun!! My kids always love it when we do shadow figures on the walls. It is so fun to see what figures we can come up with. This allows my kids to use their imaginations!
What Do I See?? Shhhhhhh!! I hear something frightening!! Grab those Binoculars and see what is going on, outside the fort! The kids have so much fun trying to see what is making silly noises from on the other side of the tent/fort! Come to find out, it was just daddy!!!!
Those are just some suggestions for things to do indoors during the winter! We love doing these things and will also do the occasional treasure map scavenger hunt or hide and seek too! There are lots to do in the wintertime, in the house!
Lily Kwan says
read books
matt lehman says
since my house has good flow me and my son probably jog around the house at least 100 times playing hide and seek, pretending to be super heros/ police, and chasing the dog.
Vikki Billings says
When my grandkids are here in the winter time we play video games on the Wii, play board games and we play with my grandsons train set.
Amy Z. says
We like to read, or play cards and board games.
Angela W says
Movies, board games, read books, make forts, and arts and crafts.
Robin Wilson says
These would be for my niece, but when she is over at my house we like to bake and do crafts.
Dawn Monroe says
We like to sing Karaoke and play the dance video games.
Steve Steckel says
We built alot of blanket forts and played board games. We played a bunch of xbox games also.
Meghan Finley says
We play fort
Karen says
Do a lot of reading, drawing, creating, building forts with the couch cushions.
Cheryl Rahkonen says
We play a lot of board games with our children during the winter months.
karen says
we play hide and go, have movie nights, have a scavenger hunt, and listen to books on cds
Cori Westphal says
My kids love crafty stuff, so they’re almost always creating a mess somewhere!
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Wehaf says
We try to be physically active as much as possible – that means dance parties!
Natalie F says
We do a lot of playdoh and art stuff. Board games and pretend/dramatic play. It can get looooonnnnnng. 🙂
Kerry G. says
Lots of arts and crafts.
Ellie Wright says
We read a lot and do crafts. Play a lot of board games.
Carrie says
We do a lot of art and baking. We also like to watch movies
Nicole Vosburgh says
We love baking, painting, and legos!
Jennifer Hiles says
We have been getting into crafts which is easy with the holiday season. So many Christmas crafts out there. We do a lot of puzzles and games too. Right now my daughter’s favorite thing is for us to go “swimming” in her bedroom, she has goggles and i have a blue princess slipper as my goggles. lol. she loves it though.
Audra O'Hara says
We do arts & crafts, play boardgames and watch TV.
Amanda Alvarado says
We play board games and card games, read books and snuggle on the couch and watch movies!
Sarah Hayes says
we love to make forts and read books
Tara O. says
I like to take my daughter to an indoor playground. There is a store that sells playgrounds and they have a huge showroom with lots of assembled playgrounds where you can pay a few dollars and your child can play on them!
Dorothy Teel says
With my granddaughters we love to go out and jump on the trampoline when it is snowing it is a lot of fun, but when done we go in the house and have a hot chocolate party with popcorn and watch movies, a lot of fun. Kids pick the movies..
Kristi C says
We read, play board games and go to the local rec center to play basketball.
vickie couturier says
we do board games and crafts and watch movies
Terry Maigi says
We play lots of board games, make crafts, build forts, and she loves to help in the kitchen!
amy pugmire says
Lots of board games, we watch movies and do crafts.
Cassandra Eastman says
We play hide and seek, build forts, and play a lot of board games!
Margot C says
We do lots and lots of building – Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, blocks – you name it we build it.