Got the Winter Blues? Here’s some kid-friendly ideas to keep everyone happy during the winter months. AmeriClean Newsletter - February & March 2009
This winter, go retro. You can party like it’s 1984—or, better yet, like it’s fifty years ago, not twenty-five. Turn off the computer. Forget the television for awhile. Try these ideas for family indoor fun!
Fun house. Use old catalogs and magazines for this one. Give each child a poster-sized piece of paper on which you’ve drawn the basic shape of a house (or they can draw it if they’re ready). Draw lines to divide each “fun house” into rooms; cut out pictures from magazines and paste them into the “fun house” to fill each room. Let kids choose their own decorating styles—whether they choose a red couch and green lamps, a basketball court in the kitchen or a swimming pool in the basement. Imagination rules!
Build a skyscraper. Choose boxes of different sizes and tape them shut with packing tape. Stack them like a giant skyscraper and tape them together—then decorate with crayon, paints, or even 3-D decorations like tissue paper, construction paper, and yarn. Sears Tower, watch out!
Run a book club. Make reading fun! Choose a book that might be recommended by a librarian but sounds interesting to your child, too. Encourage your child and his or her friends (siblings, too) to read it. Get everyone together and talk about questions like, “What was your favorite part of the story?” Or, for the youngest set, just read a book aloud and ask them to draw whatever they think of as you read.
Make fancy cupcakes. Celebrate a birthday—even a favorite stuffed animal’s birthday will do—with cupcakes decorated with sprinkles, frostings, chocolate chips, cinnamon hearts, colored sugar, or any other decoration that sounds good to eat. Let everyone help with decorating—anything goes as long as everyone cleans up!
Eliminate your winter blues and send us your ideas for “Kid Fun.” We may feature your idea in an upcoming newsletter. Click here to e-mail us your ideas.
