Winter seems do drab sometimes; it is at least for me. I love the long days of the spring and summer. You can always plan a lot of outdoor activities. Nice walks in you Local Park, lounging down at the beach if you live close to water. How about flying a kite on a nice windy summer day. I love everything about being outside, and when winter comes around with its shorter days, it seems like we all hibernate inside until spring. Well we shouldn’t so lets take a look at some winter activities we can do.Feed the birds. You can make inexpensive bird feeders by taking pinecones, (if you don’t have pine trees close by, you can purchase them at a arts and crafts store) covering them with peanut butter and rolling them in birdseed. Hang them outside and watch the birds as they eat to their hearts content. When it snows, build a fort. Or if you have enough snow try building an igloo. They are constructed using blocks of snow that you can cut from big hard snowdrifts. Lay the blocks down one level after another. Make sure the blocks are inclined so the slope towards the center. Getting closer to the top use smaller and fewer blocks until the top is closed. Walla, you have an igloo. How about making snow sculptures. Break tradition and make a beautiful sculpture instead of a snowman. How about a tortoise, a great white whale, or a pair of dolphins. To carve the magic, you can use buckets, spoons, snow shovels, trowels and even you glove covered hands. This will encourage the creative side of you children and spark their imagination and creativity. This can be a lot of fun for the entire family.And when you’re finished with your sculptures, you can paint them. You can use ordinary spray bottles and fill them with water colored with food coloring. Imagine having your snow town painted in vivid colors.You can snow bowl. Just use ordinary 2-litre bottles filled a 1/4th the way with water to give them some stability and bottom weight. Set up your 10 â€pins†in a triangle and start bowling away. We are avid bowlers in our family, so this activity is a lot of fun for us. Give this one a try and it will be one of your favorites too.Build a backyard ice rink. These are extremely fun and you can build them from kits. NiceRink is one brand that is very well constructed, and easy to assemble and put together. They are sized and priced for every budget. 1800pools.com has an extensive selection of them in stock and ready to ship. I have one of these and put it up every year. My kids spend endless hours of fun outside with this activity. This is just a small summary of outdoor activities that come to my mind. I am sure there are many more things you can think of doing. Instead of spending winter inside looking out of your windows waiting for springtime, go outside today and enjoy the wonders of winter.
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