The snow begins to fall, the roads become slippery, it’s freezing outside, and school is cancelled. While the first snow day is fun and relaxing, there are those long stretches of no school where everyone starts to go a bit stir crazy. Try these 101 ideas to beat snow day boredom:

1. Bake cookies (or brownies or cake)
2. Drink hot cocoa, bonus points for making it homemade
3. Play outside in the snow
4. Build a fort
5. Have a movie marathon with popcorn and candy
6. Get out legos and blocks and build
7. Play with play dough (if you don’t have any store bought, there are plenty of simple recipes using flour and salt))
8. Work on a puzzle together as a family
9. Play flashlight tag in the basement
10. Go sledding
11. Get out the family socks and see who can put the most on in 2 minutes
12. Blow up balloons and try to keep them from touching the ground
13. Have a dance party
14. Look at old family albums
15. Make up a story and have each person add to it
16. Clean a closet
17. Play dress up
18. Play hide and seek
19. Do a science experiment (Pinterest is full of super simple ideas)
20. Play a board game
21. Play keep away
22. Write a letter to someone special and mail it
23. Paint a picture
24. Have a picnic lunch in your living room
25. Have a family slumber party
26. Play school
27. Get out toys you haven’t played with for a long time
28. Color in coloring books
29. Make bead necklaces
30. Make a photo booth with hats, masks and costumes
31. Make sock puppets or lunch sack puppets and put on a show
32. Fingerpaint
33. Play Simon says
34. Write thank you cards to soldiers
35. Make a pile of clothes and toys to donate to a shelter or charity
36. Use a large box to make a slide on the stairs (not for the overly cautious parent)
37. Clear the cars out of the garage and ride bikes in circles or jump rope
38. Match all those socks you have been letting pile up
39. Give each other pedicures
40. Use painter’s tape to make a race track on the floor
41. Make a pretend beauty parlor and do everyone’s hair and makeup
42. Melt old crayons in muffin tins
43. Make a homemade volcano with baking soda and vinegar
44. Eat breakfast for lunch or dinner
45. Use items from the recycle bin to make “inventions” or “art”
46. Start a journal
47. Tackle the junk drawer you have been ignoring
48. Call a friend you haven’t talked to in forever
49. Binge watch Netflix
50. Read a book
51. Make ice cream out of snow
52. Mop the floor
53. Wear your PJ’s all day and call it a party
54. Clean your oven
55. Wash the curtains
56. Wash the sheets
57. Flip the mattresses
58. Light the fireplace and make s'mores or make them in the microwave
59. Tell the kids stories from your childhood
60. Build a snowman
61. Make a photo album or scrapbook
62. Take a bath
63. Have a snowball fight
64. Make homemade pizza
65. Dare to venture out and go to a movie
66. Do some karaoke (YouTube has songs with the lyrics)
67. Take naps
68. Learn something new - check out YouTube for tutorials on anything from how to crochet to how to fix a washing machine
69. Play Sudoku or do a crossword puzzle
70. Do some snuggling with the kids, your significant other, or your pets
71. Dust, vacuum, and get that house clean
72. Make snow paint with food coloring, water, and squirt bottles
73. Use washable markers and draw on windows or mirrors
74. Do some gymnastics
75. Create an obstacle course
76. Play house
77. Set up a restaurant
78. Set up a tent in the living room
79. Set up the old train set and play
80. Print coloring sheets from the Internet and make each kid a special coloring book
81. Use toothpicks and marshmallows to make a sculpture
82. Make masks out of paper plates
83. Make instruments out of stuff you have around the house and create a marching band (tambourine out of paper plates, toilet paper tube and wax paper flute, coffee can drum)
84. Make silly faces in the mirror
85. Make soup. Who doesn’t love soup on a cold day?
86. Make homemade bread to go with your soup
87. Look up random facts on the internet
88. Get out the waffle maker, quesadilla maker, donut maker or whatever other appliance you rarely use
89. Do the dishes
90. Play 20 questions
91. Put on swimsuits, lay out beach towels and pretend you are at the beach
92. Clean the pantry and fill a sack of food to donate
93. Have a lip synching contest
94. Have an indoor Easter egg hunt
95. Teach the kids how to do laundry
96. Clean the coat closet and donate extras to charity
97. Write that book you always talk about writing
98. Work out
99. Play video games
100. Make root beer floats
101. Make silly lists of things to do on your next snow day