Winter is approaching again with cold days, white forests, and endless time to play! Children often cannot contain their excitement around the holidays and seem to have infinite amounts of energy. In this blog, you will find 10 activities for children that are perfect in winter. Whether you feel like putting on your snow boots or not, you will find winter activities for children here for every moment. If you want to go out on a budget, take your own warm drink with you. With sustainable thermos flasks for winter activities for children, things stay nice and warm, and you and your children will stay cozy and warm too.
Top 10 winter activities with children - during holidays and always
#1 Winter walk
On good days, winter provides the most beautiful scenery in the forest. Put on your snow boots, gloves, and hats and head out! The forests are nice and quiet in the winter, and children can have a wonderful time playing in the snow. Extra tip: bring hot chocolate in a thermos flask for a warm break in between. This way, everyone stays at a comfortable temperature and you can enjoy the beautiful forest and these activities even longer!
#2 Organize a tea party
If there is little desire to go outside, there are plenty of activities to do indoors! Head into the kitchen with the children to bake cookies and eat them together while enjoying a nice cup of tea. Or let the children have their own tea party with this wooden tea set. Then you can be sure that no cups or plates will break, and the children can have hours of tea-time fun.
#3 Winter activities: The indoor playground
An indoor playground is a welcome alternative to the regular playground in the winter. Although it is often a busy affair, you can also retreat peacefully while the children run around. Hours of climbing and scrambling alternated with an occasional cup of lemonade; it's something kids love. Invite friends over for extra play fun!
#4 Activities for children: Arts and crafts
Are you in a creative mood? Then take the craft supplies out of the cupboard, because there are countless winter crafts that can be made. For example, make cute winter figures out of toilet paper rolls or make soft snowmen out of balls of wool. Do you need more inspiration for crafting activities? Take a look at Pinterest; you can find an incredible number of ideas there, and you are guaranteed success.
#5 Visit a museum
Museums are not only fun for adults, but also for children! Many museums have special exhibitions aimed at children or are even entirely focused on them. For example, go to the Amsterdam NEMO, Naturalis, or check out this site for even more options. Make the museum visit extra fun (and educational!) by doing an audio tour or scavenger hunt in the museum.
#6 Decorate the house
The holidays are, of course, part of winter. Bring the house into the Christmas or Sinterklaas spirit together with the kids by hanging up decorations: one of the most fun family activities to get into the mood. Think of fun garlands, paper stars, a Christmas tree, or a beautiful window drawing. Don't feel like having a house full of these projects? Then decorate one room in the house, for example, your child's room!
#7 Snow fun
If we are lucky, there will be a thick layer of snow again this year! Organize a competition to see who can build the biggest or most beautiful snowman, or gather everyone from the neighborhood for a big snowball fight! If there is really a lot of snow, you can even make an igloo or build a fort in the park.
#8 Activities for children in the winter: Ice skating
Nowadays, it doesn't have to be freezing to go ice skating! The indoor ice rink is open all winter, or find an outdoor rink that already has ice. Learn to take your first steps on the ice together and see how far the kids can get! Luckily, they often don't have to do it alone; every ice rink has a stool or other object they can lean on. To make sure you don't run out of energy on a wonderfully active day full of winter activities for children, take a thick sandwich with you in a sustainable food wrap.
#9 Game afternoon
A free afternoon is easy to transform into a game afternoon! Let the children take their favorite game out of the cupboard and make a point system for the whole afternoon. You can even come up with a small prize for the winners! That way, you'll have a whole afternoon of fun with a tasty reward!
#10 Go to the theater
In the mood for a cultural activity? Then go to the theater with the family! Especially during the holidays, theaters have special children's performances that are played during the day. These activities have an intermission and last a little less long, so everyone can keep their attention focused. On the local theater's website, you will often find an overview of the current performances.
Warming up at home after winter activities with children?
There are so many great screen-free activities for the holidays. Being outside in the winter is also immediately good for getting enough Vitamin D3. Children can burn off energy and come back inside with wonderfully red cheeks from fresh air and fun. Indoors, you can think of baking cookies or checking which seeds you want to buy for a vegetable garden project to start in the spring. Try a different recipe for a tasty variation on hot cocoa. Or what about a rainbow walk or a color walk? With that, you go out and make a game of naming as many things as you see in the chosen color, or the rainbow colors.
Back home after so many fun screen-free activities with the children? Then you can warm up with, for example, some warm almond milk in one of these lovely drinking cups. From young to adult, you will find a wide selection of sustainable (bamboo) drinking cups at Grace is Green. Whichever one you choose, if you order on working days, you will often have it at home tomorrow!
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