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You're Home! » Bring the Outdoors In – Ideas for Indoor Fun in the Winter!

December 4, 2014

Bring the Outdoors In – Ideas for Indoor Fun in the Winter!

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Bring the Outdoors In – 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!

Bring the Outdoors In – Ideas for Indoor Fun in the Winter!

Ideas for Indoor Fun in the Winter

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!!!

Ideas for Indoor Fun in the Winter

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!

Ideas for Indoor Fun in the Winter

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!

Ideas for Indoor Fun in the Winter

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!

 

 

About Kim Delatorre

Kim Delatorre is a mommy to three beautiful, smart kids and wife to an amazing husband of 24 years! She enjoys reading, writing, spending time with her family, and blogging.

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  1. Lily Kwan says

    December 18, 2014 at 11:25 pm

    read books

  2. matt lehman says

    December 18, 2014 at 9:15 pm

    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.

  3. Vikki Billings says

    December 18, 2014 at 8:23 pm

    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.

  4. Amy Z. says

    December 17, 2014 at 4:29 pm

    We like to read, or play cards and board games.

  5. Angela W says

    December 17, 2014 at 8:19 am

    Movies, board games, read books, make forts, and arts and crafts.

  6. Robin Wilson says

    December 16, 2014 at 3:05 pm

    These would be for my niece, but when she is over at my house we like to bake and do crafts.

  7. Dawn Monroe says

    December 14, 2014 at 12:10 pm

    We like to sing Karaoke and play the dance video games.

  8. Steve Steckel says

    December 13, 2014 at 7:23 pm

    We built alot of blanket forts and played board games. We played a bunch of xbox games also.

  9. Meghan Finley says

    December 12, 2014 at 8:53 pm

    We play fort

  10. Karen says

    December 10, 2014 at 4:00 pm

    Do a lot of reading, drawing, creating, building forts with the couch cushions.

  11. Cheryl Rahkonen says

    December 8, 2014 at 9:40 pm

    We play a lot of board games with our children during the winter months.

  12. karen says

    December 7, 2014 at 2:35 pm

    we play hide and go, have movie nights, have a scavenger hunt, and listen to books on cds

  13. Cori Westphal says

    December 7, 2014 at 1:48 pm

    My kids love crafty stuff, so they’re almost always creating a mess somewhere!

    coriwestphal at msn dot com

  14. Wehaf says

    December 7, 2014 at 10:23 am

    We try to be physically active as much as possible – that means dance parties!

  15. Natalie F says

    December 7, 2014 at 9:33 am

    We do a lot of playdoh and art stuff. Board games and pretend/dramatic play. It can get looooonnnnnng. 🙂

  16. Kerry G. says

    December 7, 2014 at 4:16 am

    Lots of arts and crafts.

  17. Ellie Wright says

    December 6, 2014 at 9:03 pm

    We read a lot and do crafts. Play a lot of board games.

  18. Carrie says

    December 6, 2014 at 4:50 pm

    We do a lot of art and baking. We also like to watch movies

  19. Nicole Vosburgh says

    December 6, 2014 at 3:55 pm

    We love baking, painting, and legos!

  20. Jennifer Hiles says

    December 6, 2014 at 8:24 am

    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.

  21. Audra O'Hara says

    December 6, 2014 at 6:10 am

    We do arts & crafts, play boardgames and watch TV.

  22. Amanda Alvarado says

    December 5, 2014 at 9:49 pm

    We play board games and card games, read books and snuggle on the couch and watch movies!

  23. Sarah Hayes says

    December 5, 2014 at 5:14 pm

    we love to make forts and read books

  24. Tara O. says

    December 5, 2014 at 11:40 am

    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!

  25. Dorothy Teel says

    December 5, 2014 at 11:12 am

    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..

  26. Kristi C says

    December 5, 2014 at 10:29 am

    We read, play board games and go to the local rec center to play basketball.

  27. vickie couturier says

    December 5, 2014 at 9:05 am

    we do board games and crafts and watch movies

  28. Terry Maigi says

    December 5, 2014 at 6:20 am

    We play lots of board games, make crafts, build forts, and she loves to help in the kitchen!

  29. amy pugmire says

    December 4, 2014 at 11:27 pm

    Lots of board games, we watch movies and do crafts.

  30. Cassandra Eastman says

    December 4, 2014 at 7:03 pm

    We play hide and seek, build forts, and play a lot of board games!

  31. Margot C says

    December 4, 2014 at 12:54 pm

    We do lots and lots of building – Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, blocks – you name it we build it.

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