by Amy (mom to Arlo, 3-5’s)

Winter is almost here and the days are appropriately short, dark and often wet. Are you a bit concerned about what you are going to do with your kids during those two weeks off from preschool? So am I.

During our last 3-5s parent meeting, someone had the brilliant idea of brainstorming activity and adventure ideas for the break. Hopefully these lists will be as useful for the entire Sandhurst community as they undoubtedly will be for me!

Activities

Homemade Silly Putty (or Flarp!)

Homemade Play Dough

Pinecone birdfeeders 

• Create an obstacle course

Paper bag puppets 

• Robots (or anything!) made out of recycling materials

• Make popsicle stick puppets of characters from your favorite picture book and act out the story

• Play hide the object (we always called this “Huckle Buckle Beanstalk” which we shout upon finding the object)

• Make pretend “soup” (my son uses random spices and scraps from whatever I’m cooking – a little gross but lots of fun)

Jungle masks

Adventures

• Play dates!

• Puddle jumping

The Reptile Zoo

Arena Sports Bouncy Houses

Play Date Seattle

• Zoomazium at Woodland Park Zoo

Seattle Aquarium

Seattle Children’s Museum

Mohai 

Montlake Terrace Pool