Winter makes your life restricted due to cold temperature. All the activities become limited due to harsh weather. Even the active children avoid moving around and outside due to severe weather. In winter children burn half the calories as compare to summer. These things have some severe effects on their physical health. Physical activity is essential to keep your children active and healthy but winter season and frosty weather make them lazy so to keep them healthy you should emphasize and boost physical activities that keep children moving, consume energy and enhancement of their morale.
There are following activities that should be introduced by parents to keep their children active and physically fit.
If you have enough space and a separate playroom you can set your soft play area for your children including tunnels, obstacles and different types of soft play equipment. This will keep your children active and fit. If setting a play area in your home is not possible then you can take your children to any mal having play areas.
Children are always energetic. They can enjoy a lot of different activities by playing outside in winter like ice-skating, making a snowman and snow angels, and can enjoy a snowball fight. They can also make an obstacle course using balls, jump riggings, simple items around the house and trees in the courtyard. But the main things that should always remember that keep yourself warm in winter.
Children can enjoy different activities in free space at home like hanging a basketball hoop on the wall, taping hopscotch to the floor, setting up indoor hockey nets, or placing a chair up in your room to practice ballet.
If you have a facility with an indoor swimming pool, then you can take your children for swimming as it’s the best physical activity in winter to keep them active and fit.
Try to restrict the screen time of your children to keep them active physically and mentally. You can also introduce different types of activities like dance gymnastic or Martial Arts to keep them busy.
In short physical health of your child is very important to always try to focus on it to keep them healthy.
