Snow day survival kit

This winter has been full of snow days! My husband works at a local university and stayed on campus a few nights this year because the roads were too icy and bad. 

That left me stuck in the house with a two-and-a-half-year old and an almost 1 year old. Holy cow, it’s was an adventure! We did crafts, watched Curious George’s Christmas movie 300 times, cleaned up toys endlessly, tried hot buttered Cheerios (AMAZING) and danced to Christmas music.

If you know there is snow and ice coming, the most important thing to do is go to the grocery store as early as you can to avoid the crowds of people getting milk and bread! Obviously you'll want to stock up on groceries but you may want to pickup some craft supplies and things to keep everyone from going stir crazy!

My suggestions are:

• Make and decorate sugar cookies (you must ALWAYS have ingredients on hand).
• Make felt snowmen, paper dolls or Christmas trees for kids to decorate over and over.
• Salt dough hand or footprints
• Pipe cleaners!
• Paint! Make some yogurt paint or just use regular (washable) paint and let them go wild on a $.30 poster board from Walmart.
• Fun music on Pandora radio
• Pillow & blanket forts
• Start reading a chapter book aloud (I loved The Wizard Of Oz as a kid).
• Netflix
• Homemade playdough
• Come up with fun games and obstacle courses for them.
• Enlist help with chores! My oldest loves to vacuum with the little bissell 3-in-1and it’s great to have the “help”

These are just a few fun ideas to break the boredom. If you can go play outside in the snow, go for it! We opted not to because I HATE the cold and didn't want my babies out in 12 degree weather.

What are some of your favorite snow day activities?