Its been 20-25 all week here now.
Its not supposed to go above it for another week (in fact some dit of a weatherman says he thinks it’ll be 8 for a high Wednesday.!)
Me and my son can go nowhere(he loves to go out) becasue we have no car and its too cold to go out for a bus.
I need ideas for fun things to do in the house to occupy his time.
Thanks.
Build a fort out of sofa cushions, chairs and a blanket.
Do you have any board games? Cards? A 12-pack?
we have checkers, UNO, a long tube (made for kids) , a tv, paper, crayons, tape.
12 pack??
Obviously, you’ve never played “Life” with my 8 year old…the 12-pack keeps me from strangling the annoying little bugger…
Get him to see how many household items will fit into a wall socket.
:dubious:
My son, almost 10, has already decorated the bathroom (thanks to Trading Spaces) and painted the doors upstairs (the one on the bathroom says Bath in Progress-Do Not Enter)
We have a huge box of lego that I bought in several different ebay auctions; that usually comes out on rainy days, but that’s not much of a suggestion to you in your current position.
There are numerous kids websites (devoted to various cartoon characters etc) where you can play online flash games and/or print out pictures to colour in (how old is your son?)
And of course, The Cat In The Hat is a good read for times like this…
Another possibility is to find (online) pictures of palm trees, balmy tropical islands etc; print them out and make a huge collage picture to hang on the wall, then dress up in summer clothes and shades, make a (non-alcoholic) cocktail with ice cream, cherries, tinned fruit (complete with little umbrellas and slices of fruit on the edge of the glass) - take a picture of yourselves drinking your cocktails in front of your tropical island collage - if you have a digital camera, you could try making the image into a ‘wish you were here’ postcard and send it off to a few friends.
Or do some baking - make cookies or cakes, or pizza… even if you haven’t got the right ingredients, you can nearly always improvise (mayonnaise instead of eggs+butter and so on).
Or make some popcorn, dig out a video you haven’t watched for a long time and set up the living room as if it were a cinema.
Are there any other kids nearby that can be invited over for group fun?
Or put him to more home improvement work.
I had to plug that temperature rating into a conversion website to understand what you were talking about, and then go all :dubious: when you said it was too cold. That’s sledding temperature! Skiing temperature! Walk in the woods and look at dead things temperature! Water’s barely frozen!
You could see if you can build tea-light lanterns using stuff around the house (clothes hangers, tape, stiff cardboard) and then go explore outside.
A 12-pack is a box full of games- checkers, chess, chinese checkers, snakes n’ ladders, etc…
A few suggestions:
Hide and seek,
Creating or organizing all those pictures that you haven’t looked at in years.
Along the same lines: Creating his very own scrapbook.
They’ve got some cold weather science projects here: http://myschoolonline.com/article/0,1120,22-4538,00.html
and my kids always want to help me in the kitchen, so there’s that too.
Let the kid hide first… then go read a book for an hour…
Lego, duh.
If you don’t have Lego…well…why not?
My son and I bake.
I have to deal with the oven, of course, but he gets to roll things out, press things out, cut things out, sprinkle, spread and decorate. It also depends on what’s in the house.
Some of his favorites are:
Cut out cookies and I have make frosting and tint it different colors or make cookie paint and he goes to town for a couple of hours doing that.
Canned biscuit mini pizzas or doughnuts or pigs in a blanket. (There’s no other reason to buy canned biscuits as far as I can see)
He also likes baking bread even if it is in the breasd machine.
We spend a couple of hours having a movie date. Let the kid pick a movie, and make popcorn, let him have some soda and a candy bar, close the curtains and play movie theater.
I agree with Barbarian - that is NOT too cold to go out! Go skaing, or build a snowman (do you have snow?), or go hiking somewhere - woods can be really beautiful in the winter! Or sledding! I love sledding!
yes, we have snow!
But he is not going sledding unless its over 32 degrees!
Too cold for me!
I always have to smile when I hear things like that. Originally I’m from California, but have been in Canada for a long time. I came home from work last night and the kids were out sledding in the driveway (we live on 3+ acres) …temperature a balmy -17C or 1.4 degrees F. Heheh.
It all depends on what you’re used to. And having the right clothes. 
As for the OP, When it gets really cold (-20 C) board games, sculpture, and because he’s a boy, have you tried building a model with him? Boys love that stuff.