8 Fun Indoor Winter Activities For Kids

Is your kid’s winter break right around the corner, and are you searching for interesting ways to keep him busy? Is it too cold for him to go out and are you looking for some indoor winter activities for kids so that he can enjoy at home? If you nodded along in earnest agreement, you should consider reading our post below.

Heavy snowfall is a common feature of winter, which confines kids at home. Staying indoors for long may make your kid dull and lazy. So, it is important you encourage him to participate in some fun and creative winter activities.

Scroll down for our compilation of fun indoor winter activities for kids:

1. Make Newspaper Snowman Using Garlands Of Small Snowmen:

You Will Need:

• Old newspapers

• Scissors

• Glue

• Sketch pens

• White chart paper

How To:

1. If you are creating a snowman using newspaper, you can use lots of pages of newspaper and develop a big snowman using scissor and glue.

2. If your kid is developing a garland of small snowmen to hang on Christmas tree, you can draw the image of a snowman on the white paper using sketch pens and get cut-outs using scissors.

3. Make eyes, nose, cap, and other parts of snowman using sketch pens.

4. Join one hand of a small snowman with other using glue.

2. Kids-Friendly Collage:

You Will Need:

• Foam stickers

• Paper

How To:

1. Encourage your kids to stick colorful, artistic foam stickers on a sheet of paper.

2. Arrange them well and create a wonderful winter collage on the paper.

It is one of the fun winter indoor activities for kids.

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3. Create Icicle Craft:

You Will Need:

• Black paper

• Glue

• Salt

How To:

1. Keep the black paper on the flat surface.

2. Apply liquid glue on the top of the paper sheet back and forth.

3. Now, make the paper stand so that white icicles of glue would fall along the paper.

4. Sprinkle salt on it.

4. Winter Tree Painting:

You Will Need:

• Paper

• Pencils

• Colors

How To:

1. Winter tree paintings are easy to create for kids

2. So encourage your kid to draw withered trees of winter on the paper using pencil

3. Use colors to have winter theme to the painting.

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5. Read Story Books:

You Will Need:

• A wonderful collection of children’s storybooks

How To:

1. Create a home library using a wonderful collection of children’s storybooks.

2. Encourage your kids to read storybooks regularly.

6. Decorate A Christmas Tree:

You Will Need:

• An artificial Christmas tree

• Small bells, small snowmen, beaded strings, stars, and other decorative material.

How To:

1. Have an artificial Christmas tree indoor.

2. Encourage your kid to decorate the Christmas tree with various decorative items, such as small bells, snowmen, beaded string, and other tree décor items.

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7. Develop Adorable Clay Toys:

You Will Need:

• Colorful clay

How To:

1. Encourage your kid to develop adorable small clay toys with the help of colorful clay material.

2. Hang the wonderful clay toys on the Christmas tree.

Try this winter activities for kids at home. They turn amazingly active.

8. Prepare Peppermint Hot Cocoa:

Preparing peppermint hot cocoa is quite simple and interesting activity for kids in the cold months.

You Will Need:

• 1-quart milk

• One-third cup of unsweetened cocoa powder

• 3 ounces of chocolate chips

• A pinch of salt

• 7 Peppermint sticks

How To:

1. Place the cocoa powder in a saucepan and add milk and stir till the cocoa completely dissolves in it.

2. Add crushed peppermint sticks and chocolate chips.

3. Stir the mixture and bring it to a simmer for about eight to ten minutes till the peppermint and chocolate dissolve completely.

4. Bring the hot cocoa to a boil and turn off the gas.

5. Add a pinch of salt.

6. Pour it into a mug and let your kid enjoy.

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Did you encourage your kid to participate in any interesting indoor activities during winter? Which winter indoor activities for kids did he love? Share your stories with other moms here. Leave a comment below.

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