Fall/Winter Month Ideas
- Play board games
- Interview each other
- Bake cookies
- Teach manners – celebrate good manners by going out for supper
- Make popcorn
- Play a sport
- Read a story
- Make sock puppets
- Share funny stories
- Make a rhyme with your names
- Go to the Big Apple
- Watch a movie
- Go to Children’s Museum (Kidzone)
- Go to the Library
- Walk around the mall
- Tour airport 308-237-2111
- Listen/dance to music
- Help with homework
- Attend UNK game, recital, musical, etc.
- Go to the YMCA
- Go to the park
- Visit a farm
- Get ice cream
- Look at pictures together
- Color
- Make Paper Airplanes
- Put together a puzzle
- Learn to play chess/checkers
- Make a family tree
- Play charades
- Talk about emotions (Read Be Mindful of Monsters together/discuss)
- Make a scrapbook
- Drive through car lots and identify different kinds of cars
- Ask the child what they want to do when they grow up and take them on a tour of their selected future career; have them come up with questions to ask someone about the career during your tour
- Sit in a public place and make up stories about the people who are around you
- Make a fort
- Swimming @ UNK – It’s free
- Read a magazine
- Write something together (story, poem, etc)
- Play dress-up
- Learn about plants and flowers
- Shoot hoops
- Make crafts (Friendship bracelets)
- Create holiday crafts
- Ice skate
- Build a snowman
- Go sledding
- Feed the Birds
- Put a Puzzle together
- Make hot chocolate
- Go for a Hayrack ride
- Decorate/carve pumpkins
- Play in the leaves
- Write a letter to Santa
- Go window shopping
- Make homemade ornaments (pinecones work wonderfully)
- Make snow angels
- Make homemade Birthday/Holiday/Valentine’s day cards for special people
- Paint or draw a picture
- Play computer games at the Public Library
- Make ice cream sundaes
- Paint fingernails
- Visit pet store
- Look at Christmas lights
- Visit floral shop
- Decorate for Christmas
- Make Construction paper turkeys
- Make Christmas candy
- Wrap gifts
- Visit Cabela’s store to view animals
- Teach your Little Friend a new card game
- Visit Child’s school
- Tour UNK Campus
- Go to the World Theatre
- Go to the Friends Program office
- Walk around the mall
- Go to Billy Jack’s Pizza Pub (half-price for matches!)
