What Are Some Ways To Keep The Family Busy When It’s Cold Outside?
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Paint Virtually!
We've been proudly offering Take-Home Paint Kits for almost two years now. With these convenient kits, you'll receive all of the supplies you need and can paint from anywhere, anytime! We'll provide a kit, filled with paint, brushes, a canvas, and instructions. You can grab it from the studio to take it to the location of your choice and paint, virtually. Our step-by-step directions will be emailed to you and you can follow along with them, as well as pause, rewind, and replay them as you go. If you purchase a small kit with written instructions, they will be included in your kit.
What a fun, special, and creative activity for you and the whole family to do together on a chilly winter day! Make the same painting together, but in the colors of each of your choices, and hang them in the same spot as a collage artwork that showcases each individual’s personality. Buy a few different ones and let the kids paint them in their free time, creating different artwork to display throughout the house. Anyways you choose to utilize these convenient classes are perfect! Enjoy!
Join Us In The Studio
Whether Mom and Dad need a date night, or you’re looking for a fun place to have a girls’ night out, Pinot’s Palette is the place to be! We offer TONS of paintings, and even have some Family Fun Day classes where everyone can join in!
Check out our Winter Themed Paintings: https://www....rville/events
Crafts The Whole Family Will Love:
Pinecone bird feeder.
These are so inexpensive and simple to do. And they’ll keep kids busy for a good couple of hours, from the sourcing of the pinecones to the messy rolling in birdseed, to the hanging outdoors.
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Make sun catchers or “stained glass”.
What are sun catchers and how to make them?
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***We are partial to the tissue-paper stained glass for little kids and the melted-bead sun catchers for older kids, but take your pick!
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Make your own play-dough.
You don’t need lots of special play-dough tools to do something different: use kitchen tools or play-toolbox tools.
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***More fun play-dough activity ideas:
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DIY Pizzas
Ready-made pizza crusts are easily available and always handy to have around. Toppings can include loads of veggies, pineapple, sausage, and cheese. Lots of fun, and dinner’s ready when you’re done.
Cookies & Cocoa
Bring out a handed-down family recipe or find one online that you’d like to try and teach the kids how to measure, stir, and bake!
***(Pair the treats with a cocoa bar):
The kids are likely happy with hot chocolate alone, but to make it a super-special activity, plan a hot cocoa bar. Stock up on all your favorite toppings: marshmallows (in different flavors, sprinkles, whipped cream, coconut, white chocolate shavings, mini chocolate chips, toasted nuts, cinnamon, caramel, Pirouette cookies, wafer cookies for crumbling or dipping…the sky’s the limit!
Ok, so this is the opposite of cooking but…
Make ice cream using snow.
Remember those old Snoopy Snow Cone machines? (You can still buy them, BTW.) This recipe for DIY snow ice-cream is the same idea: https://www....ecipes-609166
**Just be sure to find fresh snow. No snow? You can use crushed ice, too.
Have a family competition for who can come up with the best recipe from the contents of your kitchen. Be sure to set a time limit and have a panel of judges.
((Buy a Snoopy Snow Cone Maker)):
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*** ENTERTAIN ONE ANOTHER ***
Make Your Own Movie!
Is there anything more fun for kids than watching themselves? Come up with a simple plot, get some props and costumes together, and write a loose screenplay. Older kids can help edit, too. Then screen it for everyone.
Sing Karaoke
Find karaoke songs on YouTube, or download the Sing! Karaoke by Smule app for iPhone or Android and sing your hearts out!
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Play board games and/or card games.
Do some research into age-appropriate games (Board Game Geek is great) and invest in a new one—it’ll be worth it for rainy or cold days and trips to the cottage for years to come. Don’t have a game on hand? Try a DIY game like the guessing game Boticelli.
*** SCIENTIFIC FUN ***
Sparkly Fizzing Rainbow Dough
Bright and colorful, here is a unique play dough. Your kids will enjoy making it and then playing with it too.
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Tornado In A Bottle
This experiment allows children to mimic the patterns of this weather occurrence without facing any of the dangers a real tornado brings.
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Fluffy Slime
Have you tried making fluffy slime yet? This one is a must-try! The texture is so fun to play with. Kids will love stretching and squishing this fluffy slime. And we have to say, we think this is the best fluffy slime recipe you will try.
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