![]() ![]() ![]() Some will keep your kid occupied for a fairly long time others provide a short diversion and quick laugh. The McKay family has field-tested all of these ideas and given them our seal of approval. ![]() Sometimes a little weird and eccentric, these are activities that you may not have previously thought about doing, and that will give you a welcome break from your typical entertainments. Which, let’s face it, are awfully long too. ![]() Save more involved crafts - like building a periscope, pencil catapult, or coin-powered battery - for Saturday afternoons. The activities below require minimal supplies (and that which is required you’ll already have lying around the house) and minimal preparation and work. There are tons of involved crafts to tackle out there, but at the end of a long day, nobody wants to bust out a ton of supplies, spend an hour on some meticulous project, and then have a bunch of clean-up to do. These are things you can do entirely within the confines of your house, because baby, it’s cold outside. They have been selected and recommended based on the following criteria: If your family has been experiencing some pandemic-induced wintertime doldrums, below we present over 30 ideas for whiling away these long, dark nights. Sure, you can watch a movie or pull something out of the board game cabinet, but you probably don’t want everyone staring at a screen every night and you can only play The Floor Is Lava so many times. You get done with dinner, and then it’s like. But quarantining in the cold and dark of winter? Woof. Quarantining with kids in summer - when the sun doesn’t set til late, the weather is warm, and you can spend your evenings doing things outside - is one thing. The pandemic has canceled tons of activities, outings, and extracurriculars, leaving our calendars, including our familial ones, rather empty. ![]()
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