Stuck indoors on a cold, snowy day? You and your family can avoid the winter blahs by enjoying these free online activities:
* Watch caterpillars turn into butterflies. Or enjoy other videos of sugar gliders, baboons and tropical frogs at National Geographic Kids.
* Make homemade Play-doh. Try the recipes at easy-kids-recipes.com that use ingredients that are in your kitchen right now—flour, salt, vegetable oil, cornstarch and food coloring. In just minutes, you and your kids could be making snowmen, angels or SpongeBob Squarepants.
* Draw on a virtual Etch-a-Sketch. Use the arrow keys to create flowers, birds, piano keys or anything else you can think of at ohioart.com, then print your favorites. For inspiration, visit the online Etch-a-Sketch Gallery to view others’ artistic creations.
* Visit the museum. Find online exhibits of paintings, sculptures and ancient artifacts of the world’s top collections at the Smithsonian Institute, British Museum and Louvre.
* Print out games. Get Sudoku puzzles for all levels of ability at printable-sudoku-puzzles.com as well as coloring pages, mazes and word scrambles at printables4kids.com.
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