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Diverse, Unique, & Easy Winter Solstice Activities Kids Will Love

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Tomorrow we’re having our second annual Winter Solstice get-together (a.k.a: a playdate) with good friends.  

My friend and I wanted to find a way to open our children’s eyes to the beauty of the solstice from a scientific standpoint but even more so the significance to us human beings and those with whom we share the earth.

Here are a few wonderful ideas from my friends around the internet. The idea is to create warmth, spirit, and light around this dark (as in little daylight particularly here in the Pacific Northwest) day.

Learn beautiful ways to spend winter solstice with your family and friends. These winter solstice activities are simple to put together and unique for kids!

Winter Solstice Activities for Kids

Bring in the Sunshine

medallion snowflake

Craft Like There is No Tomorrow

Or what about these classic medallion snowflakes from One Dog Woof. My boys are 3 and 4, so their cutting skills are developing as I write. I thought it’d be fun to save one each year to observe how their snowflakes change over the years.

Orange Bird Feeder

Take Care of Nature

We live in the mountains with lost if animals adapting through the colder months. I find watching these birds, especially, adapt as the seasons change. No matter where you live helping these animals during colder months is always a good thing. Sheri Silver’s Orange Bird Feeder is not only unique but it sure looks pretty hanging in the yard! What fun to make too!

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Related Post: How to Get Kids Outdoors During the Winter

Read Fantastic Winter Solstice Children’s Books

Reading stories out loud is always a pleasant and heartwarming activity to do with friends, especially around special celebrations like Solstice. Last year I collected several books to add to our collection. Check out the list of Winter Solstice Children’s Books!

Move Your Bodies

What better way to bring in the day with the least amount of light than a fun Winter Solstice yoga story time to get our bodies moving? This yoga session for children tells the story of a raven bringing light.

Meditate & Teach Kids to Meditate

I also researched a few short Winter Solstice poems appropriate for children. Long enough to have meaning to the child yet short enough to keep a child’s attention. All we want to do is provoke thought and questions. Plant any seed to ignite further learning. Poems are a great way to achieve this goal.

Happy Winter Solstice!

Stay Warm,
Marnie

About Marnie Craycroft

Marnie hails from Maine where she spent summers buried in sand and winters buried in snow. She is the daughter of a nearly four decade veteran of the public school systems. Teaching has always been a part of her life. She founded Carrots Are Orange in 2010.

Carrots Are Orange is a Montessori learning and living website for parents and teachers.

Marnie graduated from Wesleyan University in 1999 with a BA in Economics. She spent nearly a decade working in investment management. In 2006, she earned her MA in business from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

Marnie moved to the west coast in 1999 and currently lives in Boulder with her husband and three sons. She is Montessori trained. Her work has been featured on Apartment Therapy, Buzzfeed, PBS Kids, BabyCenter, the Melissa & Doug blog, Huffington Post, and WhattoExpect.com. Besides writing, passions include running (usually after her three sons), photography, and outdoor adventures.

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