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Have a Wonderful Winter
The calmer winter months are an opportunity to slow down and bond with your family. Make the most of indoor time by planning family projects and read-aloud sessions. Or keep up New Year's fitness goals with our tips for healthy eating and exercise you can do inside.
When the snow drifts into town, look over our cold-weather checklist and take your child through a white world filled with ways to play and learn. We've got dozens of ideas for how to make this season super.
Articles
How About a Resolution?
by Cara Pitterman
Scholastic Parents |
December 19,2006
New Year's resolutions teach your child to set goals for improvement. Tells how to get started. Gives inspirational ideas. Talks about what to do when resolutions are broken.
by Toby Leah Bochan
Scholastic Parents | Keep kids busy on the Internet during bad weather. Here's an interactive list of online learning activities for all ages. Also includes games that are just for fun.
by Shama Narang
Scholastic Parents | Playing card games with your kids supports what they are learning in school. Use these rules to play card games that sharpen memory, concentration, strategy, and logic.
by Toby Leah Bochan
Scholastic Parents | Craft activities you can do with your kids on cold winter days. Step-by-step instructions for rolled candles, sock puppets, birdfeeders, potato prints, and flashlight art.
by Toby Leah Bochan
Scholastic Parents | Keep kids warm in cold weather with this smart checklist. Includes frostbite and frostnip symptoms and prevention. Talks about how long is too long to stay out in the cold.
by Shama Narang
Scholastic Parents | New ideas for playing in the snow. Kids can make snow art and snow snacks. They can even be snow detectives with this list of fun winter activities.
Quick Click: 7 Ways to Keep Your Family Fit Indoors
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Staying fit in winter is a challenge for adults and kids alike. These 7 tips will help you and you family stay in shape when it's cold outside.
by Maureen P. Ryan
Scholastic Parents | Give these nutritious snacks to your child when cold weather increases her appetite. Alternatives to junk food. Great for the winter season.
Scholastic Parents | 8 quiet activities for when kids are home sick. Entertain your child on a sick day without wearing him out. Includes making popsicles and personalizing a deck of playing cards.
Scholastic Parents | 5 easy kid's crafts ideas to do when the weather is bad. Children can make and play with puppets. Other ideas include scrapbooking and making a treasure box.The only supplies you'll need are everyday household items.
Quick Click: 7 Great Snacks for a Housebound Day
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7 snacks to feed your kids when you're snowed in. Make these snacks out of ingredients left in your refrigerator. Snacks include peanut butter-flies made of peanut butter and pretzels.
by Shama Narang
Scholastic Parents | Winter sports teach your kids valuable life skills. Learn the basic rules of winter sports. Find out what sports equipment your kid needs, and what they can do to stay safe and warm on the slopes, field, rink, or court.
Book Lists
Snowy Stories
Snow themed winter weather stories for young children. Click on titles to see information about each book. Booklist includes Clifford's First Snow Day.
Celebrate winter with this cold-weather booklist. Wintry kids books that inspire and teach young kids life lessons.
Cold-Weather Chapter Books
From gripping stories of survival to tales of winters long ago, these books will warm up your independent reader's season.
