What family activities are there to do in the winter?

[Prov910]

There are tons of things to do in the summer when the sun is shining and we don't need to bundle up to get outside. But what about winter? I live in the U.S. Midwest where it gets cold. Sort of cold, that is. Not Minnesota or North Dakota cold, but cold enough to prevent picnics, ball games and most outdoor activities. The cold weather really limits our family activities.

So what family activities do you do in the winter?

 

[Demi777]

Well what i like to do is stuff like movie nights and drinking tea while chatting about whatever and just have a good time

 

[tourist]

There are tons of things to do in the summer when the sun is shining and we don't need to bundle up to get outside. But what about winter? I live in the U.S. Midwest where it gets cold. Sort of cold, that is. Not Minnesota or North Dakota cold, but cold enough to prevent picnics, ball games and most outdoor activities. The cold weather really limits our family activities.

So what family activities do you do in the winter?

It is just my wife and myself so I would say our main family activity is our daily devotion, prayer and bible study. In Florida, after enduring months of mid 90's any temp in the high 60's - low 70's is considered to be winter. We occasionally go out to the movies. We also eat together each day at our kitchen table. We also watch the news together.

 

[Magenta]

When I was young, my whole family used to go ice skating on the frozen lakes around southern Ontario. It was good family fun and great exercise as well. I skated for many years after that as well Two of my sisters and I went many Sunday afternoons for a number of years to skate at a community arena. I was thinking at first that we did that on Saturday, but that could not be because I worked with my dad every Saturday for all the years between the ages of eight and eighteen We also would go sledding and tobogganing on neighborhood hills, in parks and on golf courses Back in those years, we used to get prodigious amounts of snow I remember having to stay overnight at the homes of relatives we had visited, due to excessive snow.

 

[JesusLives]

Game night is fun... Apples to Apples with a group of people very fun, Yahtzee, Cards, sledding when there is snow and building snowmen/women....making snow angels, Ice skating, skiing, tubing in snow is fun too....bobbing for apples, carving pumpkins.

There is plenty of fun things to do in colder weather. If you're brave enough cut a hole in the ice and polar bear dip... Plunge into the water and out real quick.....

My best girlfriend and I when we were teenagers put on bikini's and ran bare foot out in the snow when we were bored one winter it was a quick trip around the house.

 

[Depleted]

There are tons of things to do in the summer when the sun is shining and we don't need to bundle up to get outside. But what about winter? I live in the U.S. Midwest where it gets cold. Sort of cold, that is. Not Minnesota or North Dakota cold, but cold enough to prevent picnics, ball games and most outdoor activities. The cold weather really limits our family activities.

So what family activities do you do in the winter?

-- Make Thanksgiving dinner together.
-- Watch football.
-- Clean up after making Thanksgiving dinner.
-- Watch football.
-- Bring out the Christmas decorations.
-- Watch football.
-- Go look at Christmas decorations.
-- Watch football.
-- Go Christmas shopping together.
-- Wrap Christmas presents.
-- Open presents.
-- Watch football.
-- Make Christmas dinner together.
-- Watch football.
-- Clean up Christmas dinner.
-- Watch football.
-- Visit family.
-- Watch football.
-- Watch Mummer's Parade.
-- Watch football.
-- Bemoan the holidays are over.
-- Watch football.
-- Take down Christmas decorations.
-- Watch football.
-- Get to all those projects you didn't have time for.
-- Watch football.
-- Watch Super Bowl.
-- Bemoan football season is over.
-- Prepare list for garden.

 

[oldethennew]

boy, is this totally NOT surprising???

 

[Huckleberry]

Winter is my favorite season.
It's when I splurge on expensive cheese and beer.
We spend a lot of time shoveling snow and moving firewood.
We like to ski and sled as often as possible.
Sometimes we jump on the ATVs and rip around in the snow.
The Saturday after Thanksgiving we'll drive up
in the mountains and cut a fresh Christmas tree.
Sunday I'll put it up and the wife and kids will decorate it.
Winter in also when I do most of my TV and movie watching.

 

[Demi777]

Wii playing night

 

[notmyown]

there's always what my children refer to as 'bored games'.

we normally end up doing more talking and laughing than playing the game. i think we're bad at this! lol

 

[Demi777]

unless you play ''just dance'' and make a utter fool of yourself XD then its al mutual

there's always what my children refer to as 'bored games'.

we normally end up doing more talking and laughing than playing the game. i think we're bad at this! lol

 

[Depleted]

there's always what my children refer to as 'bored games'.

we normally end up doing more talking and laughing than playing the game. i think we're bad at this! lol

I thought that's what playing board games was for.

Better yet, card games. Then I can be so happy with the conversation I stop noticing my partner and me were losing 2/3rds of the time. (We used to play pinochle with John's brother and our SIL -- girls against the guy. Always thought, the teams were even, until we went vacationing together, so we had a score pad that kept track of every night's games for a week. I was shocked to find out it wasn't even. And everyone else laughed at me for never noticing. lol)

 

[DiscipleDave]

There are tons of things to do in the summer when the sun is shining and we don't need to bundle up to get outside. But what about winter? I live in the U.S. Midwest where it gets cold. Sort of cold, that is. Not Minnesota or North Dakota cold, but cold enough to prevent picnics, ball games and most outdoor activities. The cold weather really limits our family activities.

So what family activities do you do in the winter?

Bible Study.

Christian movies

TV series like "Touched by an Angel" or "Highway to Heaven" etc.

Get a Christian themed puzzle for the whole family to work on. i have 4 (Thousand piece puzzles) with Jesus on them. Going to frame them as pictures to hang in my house with all the other pictures of Jesus. Thinking about doing an entire wall of Christian puzzles.


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††† In His Holy and Precious Name, Jesus Christ †††

DiscipleDave

 

[oldethennew]

well, in Northern Florida, we can still fish until it gets really 'cold',, as matter of fact, my best
fishing buddy and I got written up in the St. Augustine News, because we were the only ones out fishing
on the most cold and bitter day to even try to fish,,,we were happy just to be blessed to be able and
where we were, 'even though we caught NO fish that day'...

when we get older, there are always brand new things to try out and available, really, age is not a
deterent, even IF you have physical problems,,,you just have to 'over-come' and keep on keeping on,,.

I, myself, have recently taken up the harmonica in order to play along with my husband, and it is so
much fun, because I am truly learning how to understand 'music' and how to play it, and the plus is,
that he tells me that I have an 'ear',,,...

I am 100percent disabled, but guess what??? I take charge of MY LIFE, MY GIFT, and nothing or
no one is going to keep me from doing what I can, when and if I can, as long as I CAN!!!