Welcome to ActivityHero‘s Friday Family LinkFest, where we share useful, thought-provoking, and just plain exceptional family blogs posts from around the blogosphere.
In many part of the country, families have been celebrating February break . . . in the middle of tornados, blizzards, and snowpocalypses!
It can be hard to keep kids active and engaged when they’re home all week in the first place. But when you can’t go outside? Almost impossible!
Despite this strange winter, a lot of out favorite family blogs have found awesome ways to keep their kids from getting sucked into TV-land this February.
Rocking Indoor Kids Activities for a Rocky Winter
Coming up on March 7, World Book Day (another one those little-known pseudo holidays that offer great opportunities for education activities) is an opportunity to revive Halloween fun in the middle of dreary winter.
Actually Mummy is dressing her son up as his favorite book character for school and creating an edible book to mark the occasion.
Since playing dress up is a really magical (for kids and for you – because they’re so captivated) way to keep your kids busy for hours, Joanna from Growing up in Oz spent an afternoon creating a DIY Dress-Up Station to make dress-up an easy(er) and low(er) stress everyday activity.
And if you’re short on items to stock your dress-up station (or just your toy box) with, Dorky Mom extolls the virtues of thrift and second-hand stores in Learning to Love Charity Shop Shopping.
And On a Fun (Sun) Note . . .
Some lucky moms on the golden coast still have the luxury of taking their kids out in the sun to the zoo this winter. Tragic Sandwich certainly made me jealous with her highly-photographable trip to the Santa Barbara Zoo.
But the best part?
It’s amazing how far a colorful hat will go in keeping your child happy! Cheers again for the power of kids dress-up.
What have you been doing with your kids this February break?
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How lovely that you linked to my post! Thank you so much – I’ve had a great response to my article about World Book Day – I’m really looking forward to it now
I wish more schools would use it as a dress up day like your son’s school. Halloween is one of those holidays that may be commercialized, but it’s just wonderful fun for kids, and I wish there were more holidays like that! It’s much easier to get kids excited about than something like Veteran’s Day
Can’t wait to see what great costumes you see when World Book Day finally rolls around!
Thanks for the shout-out! I can recommend both the Santa Barbara Zoo and Seein Spots Farm in Ballard, where we found the Sicilian donkeys. I think the hat may have been the biggest hit of the weekend, though.
Aren’t young kids funny like that? You go way out of your way to organize a fun outing for them (Jenna has a pretty fun post about that this week too), and the thing they seem to love most about it is something simple that you could have stayed at home for!
And I know we didn’t mention it, but I’m rather impressed with the Sicilian donkeys! You get sort of used to pandas and other “exotic” animals at the zoo, but somehow Sicilian donkeys evokes the early mafia sort of wild west time in Sicily, very cool.
Also, your photos are really, really lovely, and convey the lazy feeling of an animal afternoon in the sun in a way that would make any of us stuck in the snow/rain/cold jealous.
Thanks, about the pictures!
A Sicilian donkey sounds like something you wouldn’t want to cross, doesn’t it? But they’re actually very sweet and gentle.
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