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Summary: Tips on buying and playing with sandbox toys outside in the winter snow is discussed in this free video clip series on how to entertain children when it's cold outside.
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Denise Urban Denise Urban has a bachelor's degree in psychology and two master's degrees. She has been both a stay-at-home mom for five years and also a working mom. She ... read more
One thing that is used in the summer a lot that we don't always think about the kids playing in the winter is the sandbox toys. If you think about it, snow isn't a whole heck of a lot different, as far as sand because you can scoop it up, you can make piles with it. So a lot of the sandbox toys actually work very well in the snow. Now with my kids, they keep their sandbox toys outside all the time. Sometimes we store them in the pole barn during the winter. But you know again, it's something fun to get out, they can use them to make snow force, they can dig with them, that kind of thing. Oh here the kids found ice in one of them so they're pretty excited about that I'm sure. But as you can see Autumn is filling up hers with some snow. Autumn, what can you do with that now that it's all filled up? Can you make something with it? Show us what you can make. That's good. Let's see. Very cool. So as you can see they can use that to make different shapes, different forms, the shovels for digging. Basically it's just a lot like playing in the sandbox, they're just obviously dressed very warmly, so just something else that they can have fun with.