How to Layer Your Kids for Outdoor Winter Games

Series Summary

So its cold, wet and snowy outside. Great! Put on your boots and jacket and lets have some fun! There is so much to do as a kid when it shows. You can turn your winter wonderland into a veritable snow park with very little more than what is around you. It doesn't take much more to entertain your kids than what is around them when there is snow on the ground. Use this opportunity to open their minds, to teach tehm about nature and to make them laugh and run.

In this free video series our kids expert, Denise Urban, will show you many different options of games and activities that will entertain any child when snow is involved. With as little as food coloring or colored dye you can draw names and figures in the snow. Snow angels are always a family favorite and Auto Snow is the winter version of spraying the hose in the summer to make it feel like it's raining. I'm getting excited just typing this even though it's 70 degrees outside. Take advantage of your settings and teach your kids about nature by taking them for a walk in the snow and let their minds wander. They will have a blast and love you for it!

Video Transcript

"Well before we head outside to play in the snow, we're definitely going to have to make sure that the kids are dressed up and warm and comfortable. What I have laid out here are a couple of different choices for helping kids to stay warm. Today is a little cold out so, one of the things that we want to think about doing is actually putting things in layers. Which is going to give the kids a little bit of a better protection against the cold. So, what I have out here for Autumn is a pair of nice sturdy jeans and underneath the jeans she's going to be wearing some tights. Now for boys, you can use long john's, long underwear, that kind of thing and then she's going to have an extra layer of protection with the thick socks. Then we've got the turtle neck here which is going to help her neck to stay warm and help prevent snow from going down her back, that's not a real good feeling. And then underneath that we've got a t-shirt here. Now depending on the temperature, there can be days where there is snow on the ground but it is a little bit warmer maybe in the 40s, you actually want to make sure that you don't have too many layers because then they can actually get warm, overheated, and start to get a little bit sweating. So this is what we're going to put on Autumn and that should keep her nice and comfortable and dry so that she can enjoy the different activities that we're going to do today. "