{Make it with your kids Monday: indoor winter activity}

With temps going to –30F tomor­row, I decided to try some­thing crafty to give the girls some exer­cise. Because obvi­ously we aren’t going to be going to the park any­time soon…

This idea is amaz­ingly sim­ple, super fun and com­pletely bor­rowed from my friend Colleen (who just started a blog of her own called A lit­tle learn­ing). I don’t take credit for this idea at all, but it was so much fun I wanted to share it with all of you!

What you will need: Mask­ing tape, some pom poms and a some­thing to hold the pom poms in.

How long does it take to make this? About 5 mins. Not includ­ing the time it took to clear all the toys off the floor and vac­cu­um­ing said floor

What to do: Mark a straight line on your floor using the mask­ing tape. Then mark more lines to criss cross over. Till you have some­thing like this…

How to play: Toss the pom poms in the air, so that they land in and around the mask­ing tape grid. Now ask your tod­dler to walk only on the blue tape, and col­lect all the pom poms. Thats it! Repeat as necessary.

Who wins: Mommy wins, because the tod­dler gets some exer­cise, and that was the goal!

I did not expect this to enter­tain the girls as much as it did today. We played this game a whole bunch of times, and then made up dif­fer­ent ver­sions of our own. Like hold­ing the mask­ing tape on your head and walk­ing on the lines. Or jump­ing from quad­rant to quad­rant with­out stamp­ing on the  lines. It was a good 2 hours of fun.

Then Daddy came home and it all began again

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