{"id":396,"date":"2022-01-25T04:14:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T04:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buoyantbloomer.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2022-01-25T04:14:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T04:14:14","slug":"indoor-activities-for-toddlers-when-it-is-brutally-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buoyantbloomer.com\/indoor-activities-for-toddlers-when-it-is-brutally-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Indoor Activities for Toddlers When It Is Brutally Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve written before about how our family spent 1000 hours outside<\/a> in 2021, and until recently, we had minimal issues with following through. Indoor activities for toddlers usually means our typical play-based learning schedule, but when we miss outdoors time, or have to curtail it, then indoor activities for toddlers needs to be supercharged! January 2022 has been unusual in that there have been days where the temperature feels like 4 or 5 degrees Farenheit and even with the best layers and gear, we can at best manage 45 minutes in one go before having to return indoors. I sure do admire everyone who lives further north than New York City – I don’t know how you do it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indoor activities for toddlers – physical<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Use a different room<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The saving grace to living in an apartment complex is that we have a playroom in the building. We typically go off-hours so that we can use the space as an indoor gym. By off-hours, I mean 9 pm because somehow we’ve ended up with a 3-year old who still needs a nap but can’t go to bed before 1030 or 11 pm. When I know the weather is going to be brutal, I plan for at least 30 minutes and closer to 60 minutes in the playroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you live in a house, plan to spend time somewhere you don’t typically go to. The attic space, a basement, whatever your bonus space has been converted to. The point is to change up the scenery – it does not matter what the scenery is as long as it’s not the couch\/living room\/bedroom that your child spend the majority of his\/her time in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bust a move<\/h3>\n\n\n\n