100 Seasonal Active Learning Ideas - Winter Edition

In some parts of the country, cooler weather is on the way. Parents often have to search high and low to find fun indoor activities to keep kids moving and learning. If you live where the sun is still shining down and it is warm, you may be looking for some winter or holiday crafts to do with the kids to ring in the holiday season. Choosy Kids has all of your indoor and outdoor activities covered with our 100 Seasonal Active Learning Ideas - Winter Edition list!

We’d also like you to try to participate too! Think you and your children (nieces/nephews/grandchildren/students/children you watch after/friends, etc.) could complete 10 ideas? 20? 50? All 100? Tell us how many you think you can complete and show us your completions! Share your photos and completions with us on our social media pages (Facebook or Twitter). Remember to tag us (@choosykids) and use the hashtag #100ChoosyIdeas.

1. Build a snowman
2. Do snow angels
3. Throw snowballs
4. Catch snowflakes in your mouth
5. Go sled riding
6. Go skiing
7. Drink hot cocoa with marshmallows
8. Walk up and how hills holding hands with a friend
9. Watch a movie with your family
10. Play dress up
11. Make snowflakes out of paper
12. Find flowers outside
13. Decorate for your holiday
14. Make a gingerbread house
15. Have a dance party with Choosy Kids music
16. Have a tea party
17. Make pinecone ornaments
18. Won't be getting snow in your area? Make your own!
19. Make rock candy
20. Make a cave of stars
21. Go ice skating outside
22. Go ice skating inside - Just get some wax paper, step on it and skate across any surface!
23. Do some apple painting
24. Make gifts for other people
25. Create colorful watercolor art piece. Try adding salt on the paper while the watercolors are still wet, or use aluminum foil to create patterns.
26. Create sculptures with styrofoam and bamboo skewers. Check out this awesome blog for “How To”
27. Build your own toddler drop box. Create a variety of shapes!
28. Build a snow castle
29. Play a game of snowball toss. Set up foam cups and use cotton balls to see how many your child can make within the cups.
30. Complete some of the free activities on choosykids.com
31. Play where in the world is Choosy?! Print a picture of Choosy and hid him. Allow your child to see if they can find Choosy.
32. Have an indoor beach party. Pretend it’s a warm summer's day, and break out the summer gear.
33. Participate in RAOK - Random Act of Kindness
34. Draw in the snow. Use food coloring as paint and make the freshly fallen snow your canvas.
35. Build a bird feeder and watch the winter birds come for a meal.
36. Play outdoor hockey.
37. Create a family movie
38. Make a winter wreath  
39. Make a time capsule of your family belongings. Create a box which includes photos, postcards, or anything at all you would like. Hide the box and revisit it next year.
40. Check if any parades are in town and go enjoy the festivities.
41. Have breakfast for dinner - make sure to include a plenty of fruits and veggies.
42. Create a garden sensory bin
43. If you have a GPS capable phone, why not participate in Geocaching?
44. Make up your own game. Let your children participate by creating the rules
45. Try some water experiments (such as ice experiments with salt).
46. Create a list of the outdoor changes between winter and summer
47. Bundle up and head to the park for some outdoor fun.
48. Prepare your garden for winter
49. Make snow prints in the snow
50. Create a paper clip chain
51. Experiment with baking soda, vinegar, and color
52. With a chalkboard, write your child’s name out with chalk and let them trace over it with water
53. Create popsicle stick sleds
54. Create snowflakes from popsicle sticks
55. Create farm animals from paper plates and cotton balls. For even more fun, can you create a Choosy plate mask?
56. Build a cardboard playhouse
57. Use coffee filters to create snowflake. Create a bucket and throw them up in the air for indoor snow effect. For even more fun, have your child match the ones that are similar.
58. No snow? No problem! Use newspaper to create an indoor snowman!
59. Create your own holiday and winter decorations.
60. Make homemade play dough
61. Build a marble race track.
62. Read a new book everyday. You can check out Choosy’s Holiday Tale online!
63. Put strips of tape hanging from the doorway and let your children to throw cotton balls at the tape.
64. Bowl indoors
65. Create jewelry from beads
66. Have a color scavenger hunt with toys.
67. Create a sensory experience with beads and water
68. Create an indoor hopscotch board.
69. Create an indoor balance beam
70. Pretend a grocery store trip. Encourage your child to choose the healthy option!
71. Use cotton swabs and watercolor paints to create the perfect pointillism art piece.
72. Create a playscape table
73. Create suncatchers
74. Create and arrange magnetic faces
75. Decorate aprons for the holidays
76. Create a band with pots and pans, and be like Choosy’s band!
77. Play charades
78. Allow your child to explore their sense. Ask questions like, “ What color is that”, or “ Is that object rough or smooth”
79. Use boxes as stacking blocks
80. Create a cardboard wearable car
81. Play peek a boo. If you need some music to accompany the game, check out Choosy Kids’ CD “Our Special Time”
82. Create a collage from old magazines
83. Make smoothies with fresh fruit
84. Tape together paper, and trace your child, then let your child trace you.
85. Sing together
86. Take a trip to the library!
87. Blow bubbles inside and see how many you can pop.
88. Play with magnets on the fridge
89. Create your own stickers, using a print, tape and water
90. Use mason jars to decorate and create vases
91. Create a pom-pom rug together
92. Create yarn ball garland
93. If you are beginning to miss the flowers, why not create yarn flowers?
94. Make simple party hats from paper
95. Create your own crayons with a variety of shapes and sizes
96. Create paper towel butterflies
97. Create winter finger puppets
98. Create snowflake magnets
99. Talk about safety tips for winter and the importance of staying safe when playing outside during the winter
100. Create ice balloons