Snow days can be fun, especially when school is cancelled, however they can also get dreadfully boring, especially if you’re snowed into your house with your family.  Here are some great boredom busters that you can do by yourself or with friends to make your next snow day the best one yet.

THINGS TO DO ON A SNOW DAY

1. Sleep in and be a couch potato all day
2. Make snow angels and snowmen
3. Go sledding
4. Use sand box toys, like the sand molds and buckets to build castles in the snow.
5. Make Snow Ice Cream. You need a large mixing of fresh snow, 1-2 cups of whole or evaporated milk, 1-2 teaspoons of vanilla extract, and half a cup to a full cup of sugar.
6. Make snow candy
7. Bake cookies
8. Make money by shoveling driveways and walks for others
9. Watch a movie
10. Play a board game
11. Start a scrapbook
12. Pretend like it’s a day at the spa with your friends. Give each other facials, makeovers, or paint your nails
13. Play videogames
14. Make edible snowflakes
15. Snowflake Art
16. Sock Puppet Show
17. Play Hide and Seek
18. Make hot chocolate or Snow Flake Cocoa
19. Make a gingerbread house
20. Make Jolly Snowman bread
21. Snowball fight
22. Clean out your closet and give away all your clothes that don’t fit anymore
23. Go ice skating
24. Make an Igloo
25. Watch all your favorite T.V. shows and movies

PERFECT SNOW DAY RECIPES:

Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe:
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) Nestle Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and bake for 9-11 minutes

Peanut Blossom Cookies Recipe:
• 48 HERSHEY’S KISSES Brand Milk Chocolates
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 3/4 cup REESE’S Creamy Peanut Butter
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• Granulated sugar
Heat the oven to 375 degrees, shape the dough into 1-inch balls and roll into granulated sugar. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Put the Hershey kisses into the center of the cookies immediately after you take them out of the oven.

Snow Flake Cocoa:
• 2 cups whipping cream
• 6 cups milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 (12 ounce) package white chocolate chips
• Garnish:
• Whipped cream
• Candy canes

Snow Candy:
Materials:
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 5 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1/2 cup warm water
• 1 1/4-ounce package active dry yeast
• pinch of sugar
• 1 1/2 cups warm milk
• 4 tablespoons softened butter
• raisins
• dried apricots
• gumdrops
You will need a large mixing bowl of fresh snow, real maple syrup, and sugar. In a medium saucepan, mix 1 cup of real maple syrup and 1/2 of sugar. Heat until boiling and all the sugar has dissolved. With a ladle or measuring cup, drizzle the maple sugar mixture into the mixing bowl of snow. the syrup mixture will solidify into a warm chewy candy. You may need to experiment with the maple syrup to sugar ratio depending on the brand of syrup. Do not use regular pancake or waffle syrup i.e. Log Cabin or Aunt Jemima, it won’t have the same consistency as real maple sugar.

Snow Ice Cream:
You need a large mixing of fresh snow, 1 or 2 cups of whole or evaporated milk, 1 to 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract, and ½ to one cup of sugar.
Bring the mixing bowl of fresh snow in to the kitchen. Quickly stir in enough milk to get the consistency of ice cream, start with a little and keep adding until it is creamy. Don’t worry if you accidentally add too much. Just go scoop up some more snow! When you get the consistency you want, stir in the vanilla and sugar. Have fun trying different flavors like maple extract, peppermint, or root-beer. Snow ice cream should be eaten right away. Putting it in the freezer for later is okay but will change the consistency.

Snowflake Art:
Put your coffee filters to good use and let the children fold them in fourths and cut small shapes from the folds to make beautiful snowflakes. You can drizzle on glue and sprinkle with glitter for a sparkly effect. Once dry use scotch tape to hang in windows and around the room.

Edible Snowflakes:
Fold flour tortillas in fourths and use scissors to cut shapes out pf the folds, just like when you cut a paper snowflake, Brush with melted butter. sprinkle on cinnamon sugar and bake at 350 degrees until crispy.

IDEAS AND RECIPES GATHERED FROM:

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