You have been hearing it for the last few weeks. Schools closed and the chorus of "I'm bored" has started.  Here's a few things to keep the "cherubs" occupied:

(Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
(Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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Here are a few things that have been suggested by other parents online. Will your kids go for them? Or declare them "LAME"!

  • Snow Graffiti. Send the kids out in the snow clothes that you don't care about with spray bottles filled with water and colored with food coloring. Let them loose on the white snow that is now their canvas. Will you find a future Monet' or Basquiat? Just remind them that they can only spray the snow, not the house, the car or each other.
  • How about a rousing game of "Tic-Tac-Snow"? Level out an area of the back yard and turn it into a Tic-Tac-Toe board. Use sticks to make the "X" and pine cones to make the "O"s. Watch over them to make sure they don't start chasing each other with the sticks or throwing the pine cones at one each others head.
  • Reach into the baking pans for this last one. Use the baking pans as molds for snow sculptures. Cake pans, muffin pans, loaf pans, even Bundt pans will work. Fill them up with snow. Flip them over and decorate them with the water bottles filled with the food coloring water.

Will these things keep your kids from injuring one another on yet another snow day? Probably not. But it might help to keep you from hearing the dreaded "I'm bored" for at least 30 or 40 minutes.

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