Craft and activities for Winter

Lordhightiggythe3rd

Its cold,wet and miserable and i have a 2 year old and a 3 year old to entertain
So with no money or very little money and no car what are the best activities to do any ideas welcome lets help each other get through the winter together :beer:

thriftylass

Go out and collect conkers and sticks etc and make little man and animals out of them. Build castles out of old cardboard boxes and paint them. Make your own playdoh (recipes online, I think just flour and water etc). paint pictures, read books, chase imaginary dragons through the house. Have a teddy bear tea party. With the older one you could maybe start baking easy cookies etc. They could paint or hand print a few christmas card or similar?

WifeandMummy

We have done some painting and plan on baking. Also we're going to collect some different colour leaves and do autunm type crafts. I have been collecting empty milk bottles and next month plan to make some ghost lanterns for halloween and of course pumpkin decorating Also my daughter loves putting her puddle suit and wellies on and jumping in "muddy puddles" xx

kettlenic

Look on facebook for "Family days tried and tested" lots of very cute, free ideas on enetertaining children

carolbee

How about papier mâch!!, use flour and water glue, they can then paint and decorate, lovely and messy!!!

Used to love doing that with mine, might even have a bash since seeing something in a mag ......

Lordhightiggythe3rd

Thanks guys some great ideas there been jumping in puddles and sticking leaves on card made some lovely pictures

applecrumble24

My 2 year old doesn't have the patience for too much arts and crafts lol so we like making dens (draping sheets over tables, chairs etc and playing with torches) and obstacle courses (put things on the floor they have to run around or jump over) a bowl of washing up water and some plastic cups will also keep my child entertained for ages.

DigForVictory

Dressing up (keep that camera handy) is always fun. Who'd have thought Dad's wellies and your green jacket plus a bit of facepaint turned someone into a frog? Or that the throw turns into a hairy scary monster with lots of legs?

On really wet days, we "sung along" with the radio & played the saucepans with wooden spoons, shook a baby's bottle with some lego bricks in, and generally made a racket. For your hearing's sake you might want to play a CD.

If you need to hold them in one place, threading bits of straw on a string works for a while, and the advanced course then sews the decorated string onto a sock puppet to provide texture. Sock puppets are underestimated...

mwa

We made bird feeders last week, spent a few trips to park/woods collecting pine cones, tie string around them, roll them in fat (we used lard) then roll in bird seed (massive bag for 99p in Home bargains) and tie to branches in garden.

Making Xmas decorations/cards?

Baking basics like cookies, fairy cakes etc.

Decorating biscuits - get some cheap rich teas, make up some icing with icing sugar, little pots of sweets, cake decorations etc to decorate

Make a den and let them eat a picnic lunch in it

bylromarha

I spent LOADS of time in Ikea!