Painting
Buy your child fresh paint, good brushes, coloring pages with characters from your favorite cartoons, or offer to come up with your own watercolor story. Once a small artist begins to create, he will not be pulled away from this fascinating process by the ears! And you, too, join your child and then arrange a new year’s art exhibition for relatives.
Cut out cardboard balls, stars, socks, boots, snowmen and animal figures — let the kids paint these blanks with bright colors on both sides. Attach a beautiful ribbon to each one and give these symbolic Christmas tree toys to your family and friends for Christmas.
Workshop of Christmas decorations
Winter holidays are a great opportunity to add to the collection of home toys for Christmas decoration of the house and Christmas tree, to make gifts for relatives, classmates or friends in kindergarten. Cardboard and paints are not the only option. Arrange a home workshop on felting Christmas balls from wool or make toys from felt together. Or maybe make fun decorations out of eggshells or bright string stars?
Gather up cones in the forest and buy a couple of cans of spray paint – these spectacular decorations will appeal to everyone! Cover all the Windows with snowflakes or make long garlands of colored paper. How not to remember the miniature Christmas trees made of buttons, cotton pads, pasta, thread, fabric, POM-poms or a plastic bottle? There are a great many variants of such crafts, as well as other ideas for training small hands. It remains only to have time to try them all on such a short vacation!
School of young cooks
If the weather outside the window is not happy, this is not a reason to get bored in the country. Rather, get the flour, open the cookbook and choose a recipe for gingerbread or cookies that will be able to master the little cooks.
Joint efforts in the kitchen will give children a lot of positive emotions and help them get new skills. And how much pride will the little cooks have when everyone comes to the table to try out a delicious masterpiece!
School of young poets
No less exciting activity for long winter evenings in the country will be the composition of short quatrains or funny interpretation of poems by favorite poets!
Trying to find a rhyme is not only fun, but also very useful for the child’s development. If such a school task often brings boredom to children, then a relaxed home environment, on the contrary, charges them with enthusiasm.
Mini-repair
If your country house or apartment does not have stripped or painted Wallpaper, then you are the parent of a unique baby (or a unique parent who managed to prevent such children’s creativity). After all, many families where there are little pranksters are in a state of chronic repair. Read the children an instructive fairy tale or story on the theme “Love to ride, love to carry sledges”, and then announce that it’s time to pay for last year’s mischief.
Punishment – a large or small puzzle (depending on the size of the damage to the Wallpaper), which the child must not only collect, but also stick on the cardboard. Or maybe you will show mercy and join this interesting and calming process? Make the “punishment” a beautiful frame and attach it to the wall, for example, in the place where the damage was done.
Table games
While away the winter evenings watching TV – it’s so boring! Take a look at the children’s store on the eve of the holidays. You will be pleasantly surprised by a huge range of Board games that will be interesting not only for children, but also for adults.
Checkers and chess, dominoes and backgammon, exciting adventure games and strategies, puzzles and a variety of Lotto. You can list for a long time! This interesting leisure time will not only make little fidgets finally “land” in one place, but will also be useful for the development of their memory, intelligence and logical thinking.
You don’t have to buy the game in the store – playing a hand-drawn map is much more interesting! Or maybe study the constellations, and one evening go outside to admire the starry sky and at the same time start fireworks? Or make a bird feeder and add to the child’s knowledge of wintering and migratory birds? Buy a fascinating book and introduce the tradition of family reading in the new year?
It doesn’t matter what you do on new year’s holidays. The main thing is to spend the weekend with your children. They grow so fast! It is the love that will fill your joint creativity and holiday trips that will help turn the winter holidays into a bright and unforgettable period.
Dear readers, what kind of entertainment do your children or grandchildren like? What do you plan to do for little fidgets during the winter holidays? Share your plans in the comments – perhaps other parents will take note of your ideas.