Get Creative Sledding
Many city sledding hills don't charge admission. You can cut down the cost of buying a new sled by re-purposing your summer water toys. Inner tubes and other inflatables make for great sleds. If they're getting worn, reinforce the weak spots with some duct tape.
It's also a good idea to check your local thrift store, as plastic sleds and saucers are often donated after a child outgrows them.
Visit Your Library
Take a field trip to the local library. Most have a kids' section where children of all ages can bring their selected books and read together. Check out any books that they don't finish and have the kids read them at home while you cook dinner.
Most libraries also have fun programs for your kids to participate in for little to no cost.
If your kids aren't into reading, libraries also have a host of movies available for check out. Have a family movie night!
Craft Night
Find a fun winter craft to sit down as a family and work on together. It can be as simple as making and hanging paper snowflakes around the house. As long as you are all doing it together, your kids will probably enjoy it.
If you need craft ideas, a simple internet or Pinterest search should give you an overwhelming number of results.
Restaurant Night-In
Get your kids involved in making dinner! They will have fun planning a menu and creating a 'restaurant atmosphere'.
Either let them be the waiter/waitresses and serve you or switch and you be the waiter/waitress and wait on them.
A "fancy" table cloth and paper menu can transform your family's evening.
Squirt Gun Painting
Have snow? Fill up the squirt guns with water and just a drop of food coloring and let the kids go outside and 'paint' the beautiful white canvas of snow.
Make A Blanket Fort
You can do a lot with blankets or sheets and an imagination.
Either make it into a Indian tepee and play cowboys and Indians, or a fairy fort for your princess.
Read books, make puzzles, play cards, or watch movies. If it's in the fort, it'll be more fun.
Make finger foods and let them eat in the fort!
That's the list we've put together for you, what are some of your ideas?
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