Yet again, it’s been cold, blooming cold! Daytime highs of -10C are not conducive to spending much time outside. So, some quick and easy activities are needed to let everyone get a bit of fresh air. But, they need to take less than 15 minutes to do and enjoy!
Today, we did some simple snow painting. This was extremely easy to set up!
You will need:
Water
Food colouring
Squeezy bottles
I didn’t have any squeezy craft bottles, which would have probably made for less splodgy painting, so I used some kids water bottles with a sports cap. Of course, being kids bottles the caps don’t come off… so after some careful dripping of food colouring into the top of the cap (!) we had four bottles of coloured water ready to ‘paint’. I used about four or five drops of colouring in an 8oz (approx 250ml) bottle. Being Friday, the 4yo was at home, so as soon as the wee girl had gone down for a nap we headed outside for our 15 minutes :)
When the 7yo got home from school, he wanted to have a go too, so he took the left over paint and went outside. I caught up with him half way through his creation – he made a snowman!
Great fun, and all done in 15 minutes! I’ll be honest though, I’m just about done with this cold – I’d quite like it to be spring, now :)
I’m linking up with the wonderful Country Kids at Coombe Mill again this week. Click on the badge to see what everyone else has been up to and be inspired to get outside!
My girls wood love some snow so we could try this x
Oh I want some snow! Send it over here – great idea though! #countrykids
That looks like awesome fun
Fantastic idea for playing in the snow. It just makes me wish for snow in the UK now! #CountryKids
Love this Sara, looks awesome! I’ll definitely be getting hubby to do this with the girls when the snow comes this way (I’ll be staying inside in the warm with new bubba) xx
thats a great idea! loosk so colourful in the snow. 15 minutes only outside! wow! id be longing for spring too!
I’m not surprised you’re fed up with the cold! Lovely activity though and my eldest has just asked if she can do that if we get snow :)
That looks loads of fun (and really cold!) Maybe we’ll have snow and can try it here one day…!
Some lovely snow art going on there! #CountryKids
I love the resourceful use of kids water bottles and the wonderful captures with the coloured water squirting out. I have seen versions of this done before through Country Kids and really want to give it a go. I think it is time some of this snow came our way to give you a break and let us have just a few days of snow fun. When it does I will have have a matching post and just hope I can capture the moment as well as you have here.
Love this idea, so simple. If we get snow I’m definitely going to do wthis with Monkey, have pinned for future reference #CountryKids
Ohh wow! That looks so much fun!! All we need is some snow….hehehe x
Oh I love this! Such a great idea and so simple! If it snows here this year I will give it a go! I bet you are fed up of the cold, I am and it has been nowhere near as cold here as it has in your part of the world! xx #countrykids
What a brilliant idea! Should we get any snow I’ll be trying this out. -10C… I can’t even imagine.
what a fun but simple idea!
What a fantastic idea for playing while being creative in the snow. I’m going to have to try this with my two as they’d LOVE it. Great photos too!
Hi, what a brilliant idea. Very simple and inexpensive. Think i might have to bank this idea, if we ever get some snow here and not the constant rain we’re having.
What a brilliant idea Sara, POD would just love to do this! Sounds like everyone had a great time and the snowman is awesome :)
I absolutely love this, I’ve seen several versions of this and yours is the most effective. What proportion did you use?
(I’ve pinned)
Thanks! I used about four or five drops of food colouring in an 8oz bottle of water. Good question, I’ll add that into the post :)
What a great idea! It looks like so much fun. Really hoping we get some snow soon!
That’s such a nice and simple idea! I’m sure they had a lot of fun. I don’t know how I would survive in such temperatures!
I want to do this! Looks like a lot of fun.
It was great fun, both boys really enjoyed it, despite approaching it completely differently :)
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That looks like sooo much fun! I want snow so we can have a go :)
Looks like a great idea. I dont really like the cold but I’m almost ready to swap our torrential rain and floods for it :-) #letkidsbekids
This looks like great fun! I can’t wait to get some snow pictures :)
It was great fun, a really good activity! The boys loved it :)
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