snowbound

[wytchelf]

Ok fellow LJ users, we are all bound by the same interesting and now somewhat laughable winter that is upon us, with history making snow falls this year. Rather than take it sitting down (and getting frostbite on my already frozen butt) I am facing it head on. I am also challenging all of you to join me

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[kiwikat]

The hubby and I have declared every Tuesday to be Taco Tuesday. It's not really THAT exciting, just homemade tacos, but it's something to look forward to. My officemate is probably more excited about it than I am- usually the first thing she asks me when I get to work on Tuesdays is whether we'll be having tacos.

I've been working on improving my baking, the peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are perfected to the point they're almost lethal. Plus baking warms up the whole house, which is a nice side effect.

You should have a night where you all play spoons, that's always a lot of fun. If you get bored with spoons you could always go on to Mao, ERF, and other ridiculously fun card games.

[owlface1]

are you kidding? if taco day is announced at my house, the whole place is going nuts for 2-3 days in anticipation

[owlface1]

P.S.

Tacos rule!

[kiwikat]

We've gotten a bit jaded and used to it, but we always eat them with glee. In our defense we don't have kids and the cats don't care if we get tacos.

[neuwaver]

SPOONS! That'll bring the place down. My uncle broke our dining room table playing spoons when I was a kid.

If you're a household of one, like me: I have been a) trolling YouTube for interesting stuff to watch (watch two Nick Drake docs over the weekend) b)writing my friends *real* letters instead of emails and c)sleeping.

Oh I know. I can barely stand myself.

[thornythalia]

Haha. My cousin also broke the table playing Spoons. That game is dangerous!

To the OP: board games! Twister is always fun (especially if it's strip twister :-P). Sardines in a can. Charades. Mad libs.

[serenityone]

Well, my son's only 3, but a roll of toilet paper or scotch tape will keep him occupied for hours and hours and hours.

[bkworm9]

Along the same lines...when I was little and we were snowed in, my siblings and I would spend hours playing with large empty cardboard boxes (like the kind that come with refrigerators).

[tchemgrrl]

I was looking for something else yesterday and saw these huge rolls of paper, which would be perfect cabin fever cure. My dad worked at a newspaper when I was a kid and would get bits like this sometimes, and I ADORED it. Unroll it across the longest clean spot in the house and tell the kids to draw a city.

[bkworm9]

I don't have kids, I still feel like a kid myself sometimes, but what I remember finding fun as a kid was doing a lot of reading (audio books as someone suggested are good for younger ones who don't read by themselves yet) and baking in the kitchen. I remember one particularly bad winter we also got together with some of the neighborhood kids, brainstormed and wrote a play, "rehearsed" (this mainly involved finding fun costumes) and then performed it for all the parents. One of the older kids in the neighborhood organized this.

I have a cousin who's obsessed with that show that comes on PBS sometimes, Zoom. The website might be helpful - science-y activities, kid-friendly recipes, arts and crafts, and games that don't involve the Internet, a computer, Playstation/Xbox/Wii, or any other such devices. There's also a section specifically for activities for preschool-age children.