What's a good things to do with kids on a cold weekend?

Geocaching comes to mind . . . wrap em up warm and take em out to find treasure . . .

Cold weekend? Where do you live?

Get them being creative with arts and crafts. The messier the better ;)

Cold weekend in East Bay, CA is about 50 degrees :D

That’s what I figured. LOL. Since the majority of the US is gearing up for many weeks of cold. How about a museum? Or, an IMAX movie? Beginning with a special lunch out on the town. Maybe a paper mache project at home, make a pinata.

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I love taking my kids to the bookstore on cold days. Then we cuddle up together and we all read in my bed. Movies always work. Or cook with them in the kitchen. Cold weekends are great days for what we call breakfast dinner. And breakfast for dinner is easy for the kids to help you cook, and learn while they do it.

We do a lot of arts and crafts on cold, yucky days. Tomorrow we arw going swimming at the Y.

Skating! Too cold for skating? Natural history museum. There’s always time to look at animals and bugs!

How about having them make a scrap book? They can each start their own scrap book with pictures and words and lots of colors. Make them some hot chocolate and cookies. I’m sure they would love it.

If you have the stuff, make Moon-Sand for the kids.
Or, if you don’t mind tv, show them some old stuff you love, like the Three stooges.

Family Fun Crafts has all sorts of great things to make for that age group.

Fear not the mess. That’s when learning happens.

Build a tunnel town. If you have a lot of recycleables, or can obtain some from neighbors, etc., make houses (cut out windows and doors). Use toilet papers tubes and toothpaste boxes and such to connect the houses.

I proposed this to 4— and 7-year-olds I babysit on a cold day, and I had no idea what a success it would be. They have yet to get bored with it, and we work on it more every time I’m there.

Forts! maybe using the dining room table, chairs, back of couch. Grab lots of blankets and clothespins and, of course, a picnic. I always had a thivk movers blanket fot the ‘floor’ to eat on.

Baking cookies – have the kids help mixing and spooning out.

Welcome to Fluther!

When I was growing up in Berkeley and Oakland, we colored, made things out of Playdoh, built things out of blocks, went to the library, turned the bunk bed into a space ship, a pirate ship, a circus tent, or a covered wagon by draping it with blankets, put on a puppet show, played dress up, and made sugar cookies which we could then decorate with all sorts of crazy frostings and candies. Sometimes, if Daddy was home instead of Mommy, we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows on long forks at the living room fireplace.