Five Indoor Activities For Kids To Help Weather Winter Months
Posted by Cameron Stein in Uncategorized, tags: cellean, children, family, fitness, fun, health, kids, Uncategorized, weight lossWinter is not the time to play outdoors. Sure, the snowy hillsides are calling for sleds and even the backyard looks ripe for making snow angels. The reality is however, it’s cold out there. The cold hurts your nose and freezes your toes.
Not a good thing.
Then again, an inactive winter leads to bored, whiny kids, loony parents and mountains of DVD’s, books, video games and TV to keep everybody under control. This is good for maintaining the sanity of the adults in the family, but really bad when it comes to burning up children’s energy. You need a backup plan.
5 Activities to Keep Kids Hopping This Winter
Dance. Every day have a dance party. Throw a futon mattress on the floor and a CD in the player and let them groove to the tunes. They can rock on all over the mattress and onto the floor. Who cares as long as they are actively engaged and having a ball? It also keeps them out of your hair while you are doing whatever it is you do.
Check out your local YMCA. There are no words for the love parents around here have for the indoor pool at the YMCA. No words. At all. Kids can swim; burn energy and burn calories all winter long. The YMCA also offers members truly excellent discounts on classes like swim and tae kwon do…and there’s usually the opportunity for mom and dad to sneak in a little gym time too!
Childproof the House and move Hide and Seek Indoors. Kids love to run and need to. They run up stairs around the house, through the house, well, you get the picture. Move furniture out of the way, do whatever you need to do to clear a path for the little sprinters and let them go.
Make a Family Exercise Time. In the warm months you use the time the kids are asleep for yourself. This may include yoga, reading or a favorite exercise DVD, maybe a salsa or other dance routine you really enjoy. Now that it’s frigid outside, invite the kids to your work out session. There isn’t a kid in the world that wouldn’t love to get down with mama and dance their socks off. The lot of you will be having fun, burning calories and toning up.
Take them grocery shopping. I know, I know. It’s a fate worse than death. But how tired are you by the time you leave the grocery store? An hour of walking (cough-running-cough) around the store is almost as good as walking around the block. Not to mention the good time they’re going to have while they’re doing it.
These are five ideas for getting through the cold months of winter. Now, think of some of your own and put them into practice. Your winter will be more peaceful for it.
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