Easy Indoor Activities for Snow Days

Easy Indoor Activities for Snow Days

Ideas to Keep Kids Entertained Inside During a Snow Day!

Snow days are both a blessing and a curse, being days full of magic for kids, but also stressful when all activities are cancelled. A lot of children find themselves filled with restlessness and no place to spend that energy. To cure that boredom, we have compiled a list of some easy activities to do inside on a snow day, for when it is easier to stay warm.

Reindeer Candy Canes

An indoor snow day treat!

This easy craft is a combination of two things many children love: reindeers and candy canes. To get started, you will need:

  • Candy canes (In any flavor or color)

  • Miniature Googly eyes 

  • Pipe Cleaners (Preferably brown, but colorful antlers are fun too!)

  • Glue

First, make sure to leave the candy cane wrapped. This way, you can save it as a treat for later. Take a candy cane, and twist a piper cleaner around the rounded end, bending the ends to create antlers. Once you like how the antlers look, you can glue it in place, or leave it as is. 

Next, take a pair of googly eyes and glue them on either side of the rounded end of the candy cane. If you have mini pomp-pomps laying around, you can use them as a nose, gluing them on the very end of the rounded end of the candy cane. These are customizable, so if you have stickers, or any little accessories, these can give the reindeer more personality. 

You now have your very own reindeer! You can make a lot of these and save them or give them to friends as a wintry treat! Your craft should look similar to this example, but if it doesn’t, that’s okay too! No reindeers are identical. 

Melting Snowman Cookies

Baking with kids made easy!

Baking is always fun when all else fails, and these cookies are a great way for kids to be involved! For these, you can use any cookie that might taste good with icing, but the example uses plain sugar cookies. 

For this activity, kids get to decorate cookies as melting snowmen, which is perfect if they’ve already built a snowman! Things you’ll need for this activity include: 

  • Candy eyes

  • Medium-sized Marshmallows 

  • Cookies 

  • Frosting

You can make frosting, or buy it, but the recipe I like to use for this type of frosting consists of: 

  • 1 cup of powdered sugar

  • ⅓ cup milk

  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract

  • A splash of almond extract

Once you have all the necessary materials, you can assemble your snowman–or snowwoman. To apply frosting, just dip the top of the cookie in the icing, or spread it around with a spoon, depending on the consistency. Next, place a marshmallow on any part of the cookie, and put some googly eyes on a separate part of the cookie to make it look like they have melted. 

You can get creative with the design and color of your cookies, but here is an example to start with: 

Paper Snowflakes

Indoor craft for a snow day!

This craft is great if you need wintry decorations! These snowflakes are all unique, just like the ones in real life! They make for magical decorations, and you can put them in windows, hang them, or attach them to others to create a snowflake chain. 

What you’ll need for this craft:

  • Scissors

  • Pencil/Pen

  • Paper

First, make sure your paper is square. You can use origami paper, which is made to be square, or, you can make your regular printer paper square. While the paper is laying so it is longer vertically, fold the upper corner down until it reaches the opposite side, and cut the excess paper off. 

Next, fold your square in half diagonally, and then fold it in half again diagonally. Once this is done, take each outer corner of the triangle, and fold them into the center. To determine how many points your snowflake has, you can fold it into thirds, fourths, etc. 

After your paper is folded, use a pencil to trace out your pattern. It can be geometric, curvy, or anything else you can think of! Once the paper is traced, cut along the pencil you traced, and unfold your snowflake! To flatten it, you can use a book or container. Now that you’ve made a snowflake, you can decorate it with stickers, paint, or markers, and create a winter wonderland inside your house!

 

 

Making snowflakes, decorating cookies, and accessorizing candy canes are just a few ways to have fun inside while it's snowing outside! Allowing children to have fun with these crafts will help keep boredom away, and exercise their creativity, while ensuring their snow day–and yours–is magical. 

 

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