65 Screen free winter activities
It can be difficult thinking of things to do with children and as a family together, here are my 65 suggestions for screen free winter activities…..
Indoor activities
- Play games – have a games afternoon, board games, charades, I spy
- Puzzles
- Cooking - cook dinner together as a family, bake bread, bake cakes, Bake biscuits
- Small world play – use toy cars, figures, build your own town or zoo in cardboard
- Lego
- Puppet show – give a puppet show
- Pretend play – shops, cafe, schools, fireman, police, hospitals
- Theatre – put on your own show or panto
- Play trains
- Reading
- Balloon games – great for being active indoors
- Face painting
- Dolls – schools, babies, hospitals
- Dress up – give the kids some items of your own clothing, shoes & accessories to use/play with, pretend to be mummy/daddy
- Have a themed day – choose a theme & do crafts, play etc around that theme e.g. ocean, snow, space, animals, pirates, princess
- Boxes - children love boxes, there are so many things you could make and play with boxes
- Building blocks
- Singing and dancing
- Have a blindfold tasting session
- Skittles
- Science experiments
- Have a pretend party
- Write a story or poem
- Play simon says
Outdoor activities
- Fly a kite
- Go on a Gruffalo hunt – you can create your own like we did here
- Bubbles
- Make mud pies
- Do a winter scavenger hunt
- Visit the playground or park
- Play football
- Play catch
- Scooting
- Go on a bike ride
- Puddle jumping
- Geocaching
- Gardening
- Have a game of poo sticks
- Climb a tree
- Visit a National Trust location
- Chalking – great fun chalking outdoors
- Go on a sound walk
- Go for a nature walk
- Feed the ducks
Indoor or outdoor activities
- Water play – indoors at the sink or in the bath, or outdoors with ice or snow, wash the car, let little children do some washing up
- Have a picnic - indoor picnics are great fun, maybe in a den you’ve made or outdoors wrapped up warm
- Make a fairy garden
- Swimming
- Treasure hunt
- Make a den
Art and craft
- Drawing and colouring
- Painting
- Finger painting
- Play doh/salt dough
- Make a collage
- Sewing
- Shadow drawing
- Make a bird feeder
- Make stick puppets
- Pasta art
- Junk modelling
- Make musical instruments
- Draw a map of your house together (then maybe make a treasure hunt for each other?)
- Make masks
- Make a memory book
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Loving the muddy puddles, right up my street!
Thank you, that’s one of the best activities
Always full of fabulous ideas… Will have to bookmark this one! Thanks for linking up to #SavouringtheSeason
Thank you x
Z loves muddy puddles. We’ve been doing a lot of crafting this week including snowmen
what great ideas – love that facepainting one.
Thank you, face painting is great fun
Very useful list! Have pinned
Great, thank you x
Thanks for sharing this. so many activities we should never go tired off. #pinitparty
Lots of activities for all
What a great list! May have to give stick puppets a go for sure. Thanks so much for sharing with the Monday pin it party x
Great, the stick puppets are so easy, but lots of fun for kids
Fantastic list of things to do…sometimes you forget the huge amount of thing to do!
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Yes, it’s nice to have the list written down, to check back on and remember all the options x