5 Ideas For Outdoor Winter Activities

Outdoor winter activities are a great option for winter time fun. Not everybody enjoys winter time because it’s hard to move due to slippery garden and through this time. Many of these activities can be done with friends, family or alone.

Cardboard Sledding

Use one side of a cardboard box (about 12 inches square) to use as a sliding carpet. Who can slide down the farthest? Who’s the fastest? Take a bigger piece of cardboard and sit on it together and go for a tandem ride. Sliding can be done on a hill with snow, on sand or on the grass.

Snow Painting

Grab some empty spray bottles and fill them with water. Add a few drops of food coloring (or washable tempera powder paint) and shake them up. Put rubber dishwashing gloves over your child’s mittens and let your child spray art onto the snow. Play outdoor Pictionary or Tic-tac-toe.

Biking

Encourage your children’s competitive streak with a spot of mountain biking. There are trails suitable for most age groups and this is a sport with growing popularity, meaning new bike facilities are being opened up every year. Combine a bike trip with visits to a National Park or wilderness area.

Camping

A winter camp introduces an aspect of surviving in the raw wild that kids love; not too raw, though. It helps if you are bedding down in a heated cabin, or a yurt with a cozy log-burning stove. Waking up in the cold wilderness and seeing their breath in the crisp air as they build the breakfast campfire is an unforgettable experience for kids.

Snowshoeing

Families that like to hike will love snowshoeing. Kids will have fun on the bigfoot-like shoes that help keep them from crunching down the snow and getting stuck. If your child can walk, he can snowshoe! Outdoor retailers sell snowshoes and poles for kids as young as age 2. Poles are optional depending on the trail and snow conditions and your child's balance.