Are you looking for a change of pace for the next couple months? Here are a few winter-themed activities to continue learning during these colder weeks:
Build a fort indoors
Try baking and cooking, using math and reading skills as your family tries new recipes (or the steady tried-and true recipes!)
Read aloud to each other snuggled up in blankets
Watch and movie and read a book of the same story to compare the two
Make salt dough creations
Make villages out of cardboard, glue, and paint (add whatever craft items you want)
Have a Lego Day- Try creating any of the following: meals, animals, houses, towns, words, etc..
Weather permitting, go on a nature walk, gathering items such as leaves, sticks, rocks, feathers, etc.. If you’d rather not gather items, have your children draw what they see.
Watch a step-by-step painting class on YouTube, and have a family art session
Organize your bookshelves alphabetically
Lay butcher’s paper, or brown shipping paper on a large surface, such as a tabletop or floor, and draw a whole winter scene with markers, crayons, or paints
Learn about the way settlers or pioneers prepared for the winter months
Locate “Neighborhood Libraries, and visit one; remember to take a book to “exchange”
Visit your local library
Try ice skating
Play board games; playing card games often help with math, logic, and strategy. Have fun!
Complete various puzzles
Have your children create their own scrapbook of memories. They can even make their own book by hand with some paper and art supplies.