Activities This Christmas

Build a Snowman

One of the most fun, jolliest and downright exciting things you can do with your children during the winter months. Get wrapped up, head outside and build yourself the king of all snowmen. If it’s snowing, this is something you can do completely free in the privacy and safety of your own home. Join in with the fun or let the kids go outside on their own and take a chance to see what they come up with by themselves.

Cook Up a Storm

If it is stormy outside, why not cook up a storm inside? Teaching your children how to cook is a great way of engaging them in a lesson for life but also allowing them to get creative with what they’re having for dinner time. Knowing what goes inside their meals, both time-wise and ingredients -wise will leave them in a great place for their older years, giving them a chance to understand why eating healthily is important. And if that doesn’t inspire you, then knowing you won’t need to prepare at least one meal that day will surely come as a great relief.

Wander in the Winter

Get the legs moving and their minds wandering; taking your children and their friends on a hike to the top of a hill and allowing them to slide down on a sled would be just about one of the most exciting things you could let them do. As long as you make sure they’re safe and sound, near no roads and have plenty of padding on, they will be just fine. If there are two adults, why not have one at the top of the hill and another at the bottom to ensure safety. You could mix that in with going on a hike, exploring forests or woods in their new, frost-covered surroundings or just taking a little jaunt into town is an ideal way to get some fresh air and tire out the little ones.

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Homemade Decorations

Save yourself money of professional Christmas decorations and allow your kids to get creative - just then free roam over the glitter and paper and let them make this year’s family Christmas decorations. Engaging children in this way will be really fun for them. Give them the opportunity to come up with their own ideas, and why not take on the job yourself, too. You’ll find this as a really fun bonding session between yourself and them. Another activity is then putting the decorations on the tree on around the house. Giving the kids the chance to do a little temporary home improvement will really excite them.

Learn an Instrument

Something maybe a little more expensive - and expansive - is giving the children the chance to learn how to play a new instrument. With any luck, you may have the next Paul McCartney or John Lennon on your hands, so letting them loose on a guitar could be a great long-term get-rich-quick strategy!

Hopefully some of these ideas help you bridge the gap between Christmas and the new year and the start of school once more. There are plenty of ideas of how to excite your children, why not come up with some of your own from the inspiration above!