Twenty-five Things to Do with Snow-bound Children!
When the Weather Outside is Frightful
By Cyndi Paxton Johnson
It can be difficult to be stuck home for days on end – especially when everyone is used to being out of the house – DOING something every day! Here are some inexpensive ways to keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, and blaming it on YOU! (with apologies to Rudyard Kipling!)
Activities geared toward younger children are first!
- Pasta and/or bean play! Toddlers love to pour the shapes between different containers, shake them in paper cups/plates taped together, glue them to paper to make pictures, string them to make necklaces, etc. Can be used for counting games, sorting, beginning multiplication…
- Coloring is always good. Go online to find free downloadable sheets:
- Make Play-dough! (much better than the nasty store stuff!) http://babyparenting.about.com/cs/activities/a/playdough.htm
- Puzzles are fun – and educational! For $20/year you can download EVERYTHING (coloring books, stories, find a word, crossword, math puzzles & more) from EdHelper! (great for homeschool, too) http://www.edhelper.com/
- Paper-dolls can make the hours blur! http://scrapbooking.about.com/od/paperdolls/Free_Printable_Paper_Dolls.htm
- Pirate Fun and Adventure http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/pirates.html
- String Games (remember how much fun a piece of string can be?) http://www.momsminivan.com/article-stringfigures.html
- Card games! Crazy Eights, Phase 10, Solitaire, Canasta and more! Great family fun!
- Make your own Paper Airplanes
- Origami for Kids http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-for-kids.html
- Make your own Family Board Game:
- Make your own scrapbook! Choose and print some of your digital pictures than download free graphics to tie everything together! http://www.scrapbookscrapbook.com/
- Teach your child to sew with this simple craft tutorial: http://www.onehourcraft.com/?p=400
- 14. Valentine Crafts!
- LEGO crafts! (cause sometimes – they just need a goal!)
- Kitchen Crafts! (for the truly crafty!) http://familycrafts.about.com/od/cookingtheme/Cooking_Theme.htm
- Cooking (and eating) Together!
- Earthquake cookies (made w/ cake mix! Easy & delicious!) http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Earthquake-Cookies/Detail.aspx
- Soft Pretzels! (don’t be afraid of yeast!) http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Mall-Pretzels/Detail.aspx
- Cinnamon buns! (delicious – and they DON’T have to rise overnight!) http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Overnight-Cinnamon-Rolls-I/Detail.aspx
- Board Games & Card Games: raid your game closet – and maybe trade with a neighbor! Family games can be fantastic ! Our favorites: Settlers of Catan, 5 State Rummy, Scrabble &Yatzee!
- Family Singing! Get to the piano/guitar, grab the cd’s or just sing out loud! Show tunes, cartoon songs, Christmas songs and more! Get lyrics online: http://www.elyrics.net/
- Make Snow Cream! http://www.chathamjournal.com/weekly/living/food/snow-cream-recipes.shtml
- Play Hide & Seek – w/ objects! Start off hiding larger objects, like stuffed animals. Eventually you may get good enough to hide keychains!
- Read aloud! Great stories are meant to be shared!
- 23. Go Outside!
- Make a fort http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Snow-Fort
- Make snowshoes http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/winter/gear/snowshoes/pvc_pipe.htm
- Make a sled http://www.ehow.com/how_2300693_build-snow-sled.html
- Roast Marshmallows and make S’Mores! http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Smore
- Snuggle under the covers & read or watch tv/dvd’s! I suggest Laura Ingalls Wilder: “The Long Winter” to help us appreciate our current situation!
Enjoy!
“Portraits and Figures” - New Art Show in Cambridge
DCA ANNOUNCES AUGUST GALLERY SHOW
The Dorchester Center for the Arts will present “Portraits and Figures” in their gallery in August. The works of Margaret Dyer, Hans Guerin, Katie Cassidy and Linda Roy Walls will be featured. The show is sponsored by Nichols Lawn and Landscape, L.L.C.
Margaret Dyer is a Master Pastelist with the Pastel Society of America. Her work has been featured in “Pure Color: The Best of Pastels 100 Ways to Paint People & Figures, Volumes 1 and 2; The Pastel Journal International Artist Magazine, American Artist and much more.
Hans Paul Guerin was born in Frankfort and is the sixth generation of artists in his family. His maternal grandparents founded the Schuler School of Fine Arts, and after obtaining his degree from Salisbury University, he graduated from the Schuler facility in 2005. He has conducted workshops and held gallery shows throughout the United States.
Katie Cassidy is a pastel artist from Easton who has taught adult classes, special workshops and children’s programs throughout the Eastern Shore for several years. She is well-known for her portraits and landscapes and has a strong following of students and clients. Cassidy, a graduate of the University of Maryland, has also studied classical drawing and painting with Italian Master Primo Conti in Florence Italy, and at the Academia Di Bella Arti, Perguia, Italy.
Linda Roy Walls is an Eastern Shore of Maryland photographer specializing in subjects on canvas featuring natural life and light. Linda focuses on weather, wildlife, and water and admits an added fascination for photographing local people, especially those who “live in the moment and look like it.”
The show will run August 5-28 and will be celebrated at an Artists’ Reception on Saturday, August 14. There will be music and light refreshments at this free event. For more information, call 410-228-7782.
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