Three Cures for Cabin Fever - The Chirping Moms

It’s been a cold week here. If your like us, after a few days inside we start getting major cabin fever. The kids start getting nutty & I do too. These are 3 activities we’ve been enjoying this winter:

Indoor Sand Beach Party

Many of you have probably seen a similar recipe for Cloud Dough. We call ours indoor sand & have a little beach party when it’s 20 degrees outside. Usually after all the toys are covered in flour/oil, we switch to cleaning them in their “pools” of soapy water.

Recipe:

4 Cups Flour

3/4 cup oil (baby oil, canola oil, etc)

Make Your Own Ball Pit

Disclaimer: I’m sure this is against all crib safety codes, so please be careful & remove all balls before they go to sleep.

This one is easy: Buy a bag of ball pit balls. We got ours on clearance at Target: 120 balls for $10. If you don’t want to battle the cold, you can add a bag of them to your Diapers.com order through Yoyo.com.

Fill the crib with the kids & the bag of balls & let them jump & play. My kids love this. They played for a while & then here’s a toddler activity for clean up: practice numbers & colors. I would ask Maggie to find “2 red balls” & she would find them & push them through the railings to me. With 120 balls, this lasted a while!

Shaving Cream Play

I learned this one from Julie. Put out a cookie sheet & put shaving cream all over it. Alex likes to push cars through it & Maggie pretends her Little People & Barbies are playing in the snow. Endless fun (but pretty messy).

I hope you enjoyed some fun snow day crafts & activities . Below, I am sharing some of our older snow craft ideas & also several posts to check out for ideas to kick cabin fever:

Super Fun & Easy Activities for Kids in the Winter

Mitten Handprint Wreath

DIY Snow Globe

Fingerprint Snowman Canvas

Marshmallow Snowflake

10 Things to Do When It’s Too Cold to Go Outside Anywhere

Three Cures for Cabin Fever

50 Activities for Toddlers