With both girls' birthdays right before Christmas, we get overloaded with toys all at once. This year, I was smart and encouraged the kids to save a few activities for snow days. They got a lot of craft and project kits, so they each chose one to save for some snow day fun.
The snow finally arrived. Corbin assembled his solar powered trex robot with Aaron.
Quincy and Reese made a bunch of headbands and hair bows from a birthday kit on another snow day,
and the whole crew spent yesterday in the kitchen/science lab. Reese got this Magic Science Kit for Wizards from Madi fur her birthday. It. Is. Awesome.
I expected it to be a basic baking soda and vinegar kit, but there were all sorts of ingredients to make chemical reactions. The kids learned a lot, too, and kept a list of which ingredients were acids, bases, and conductors. Potions changed color, expanded, fizzed, bubbled, exploded, changed texture, and glowed in the dark with different chemical reactions. Super fun kit, super fun day!
I've learned the best way to make a snow day enjoyable for everyone is to plan ahead. A redbox (yesterday, we watched Alexander and the Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day), good food, an activity or craft for the kids, and an organization project for me. This week, I updated the file cabinet for 2015, purged closets of clothes that will never fit again, and decluttered the kitchen pantry (thanks to a head start from Mr Saunchy, who emptied two shelves on his own, this morning).
The typical arguing and "he's in my space!" challenges are still present, but having a plan for snow days helps us have fun things to do together so we don't drive each other totally crazy or spend the whole day in separate rooms.
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