Let’s face it. Winter is shit. Especially if like me you live in super grey and depressing England! These short as F days can make you go insane when you aint a parent but when you are its straight craziness. You feel bad because the kid is asking to go to the park every single moment and wants to go in the pool in the garden and continue on their hole to china they have been working on all summer! Indoors is just full of shitty toys and stupid tv that is all entertaining for about 15mins a day. So here’s a few suggestions of how to put a middle finger up at that cold weather and depressing greyness.

If you don’t already make camps/tents/forts then you really aren’t parenting right. check yourself! and now go grab all the duvet and sheets in the house and make one that can house an elephant and some clowns! We also need to make sure there is all the plush toys, teddy bears and pillows on the ground for ultimate comfort and to save your back! (safety first). Or you can cheat as I did up in the kids room with this Kids teepee but it doest take away 20mins of making your own.

Cooking is also a genius idea when it comes to a boring day indoors. You can cover all the meals throughout the day if your kids old enough and even if they are not of age to Wield a knife yet then let them bash them pots and pans like a drumming savage until your ears bleed. Breakfast, snacks, lunch, snacks and dinner prep can all be done. Mixing, chopping, kneading is all messy good fun to keep them entertained and it also teaches them alot…like daddy doesn’t like washing up at all so you better lick that cake batter off until the bowl is sparkly! Good cooking wins are cake mixes, cheese and ham wraps, make your own pizzas and duck o l’orange. Classics.

ART! now kids love a bit of painting and colouring and they have probably been doing a bit all bloody summer, especially with those giant fricking chalk on your patio that you have to go out and wash away every other night! So when it comes to the indoor winter supreme art event you have to go big or go home! we are lucky enough to have found big meter rolls of white paper, for sure look on eBay and amazon for this stuff because it is WORTH IT! we coat the whole living room floor get the kid naked and give them paints and pens and just watch as it shit gets MEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSY! Also play doh is a winner! If you can leave that up high on a shelf until these cold times hit. Theres also great stamp sets out there but nothing bits a bit of painting in my opinion. For the record I hate crayons and chalks, the fucking get everywhere and crayons are not the easiest to get out of fabric sofas.

BATH TIMES if like my kid, your child is a water fiend and misses that paddling pool which is currently taking tooooo much room up in my shed. But why not bath time all the time! your bath is basically a mini swimming pool! bubbles, toys and songs the lot! plus when was the last time your kid was clean all the live long day? we love a 2 birds with 1 stone scenario here at chunky.

DANCE PARTIES this is my favourite! we grab a YouTube pop mix we turn it on so loud and we dance and sing and make up dances until nap time…for both of us then wake up to our home-made pizza and cupcakes! if you have a disco light FOR SURE get that bad boy out!

Right that’s it, anything I missed? anything you love to do with your kids on them rainy winter days?

Love

Chunky

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