Wonderful ways to spend winter days

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Which means it’s time to talk about winter activities, and let me tell you, there are a lot of ways to make winter fun.

Let’s start off with the obvious––ice skating! This is the one time of the year where you can ice skate (of course you can skate inside all year, but it’s just not the same). You can ice skate at Boss Ice Arena right on campus or, if you are feeling adventurous, you can head over to Providence to visit the outdoor rink in Kennedy Plaza. 

Another activity that you can do right from home is baking cookies. Put on your favorite holiday tunes, find some yummy cookie recipes and get to it. After you make all of your cookies, you can also wrap them up and hand them out to your friends and family. If you don’t feel like doing all the baking, you can get the holiday themed Pillsbury cookies, which are also delicious.

There are tons of other super easy, super fun, very festive snacks you can make for the holidays that you can find on Pinterest. One of my favorites that I made a couple years ago, and really want to make again, is something I like to call Christmas Vacations Chex Mix. All you need for this is pretzels, mini vanilla wafers, Chex mix cereal and green and red M&M’s—which you can find at the store. Then, all you do is mix all of those ingredients up in a bowl and you are good to go. 

Another go-to I like to make are chocolate covered pretzels. For this, you just take snap pretzels and put a hershey kiss on each one, throw them in the oven for five to six minutes at 200 degrees and then press the M&M’s into the chocolate. I am obsessed with these! 

If you are feeling crafty, another super easy and really fun thing you could do is make some homemade gifts. Two that I love and have made before are a chocolate sleigh and a hot chocolate ornament. For the chocolate sleigh, you take a Kit Kat bar and tape one candy cane to each side of the bottom of the candy bar to create the bottom of the sleigh. Then you take the little Hershey chocolate bars and create a pyramid on top of the Kit Kat. Make a row of four Hershey’s, three on top of that, then two, then one. Then, just tie it all together with some ribbon and put a bow on top. 

The hot chocolate ornament is another easy one where you just get clear tree ornaments and pour hot chocolate inside, then pour in some chocolate chips, then some marshmallows until the ornament is full. Both of these crafts are really fun to make during the holiday season and there are a lot more ideas you can find on Pinterest. Your friends will love these.  

 Some other activities you can partake in during the winter seasons are visiting a cozy coffee shop like Audrey’s Coffee Shop in South County Commons, which is so beautifully decorated for the holidays. You can also do a holiday light drive. Hop in the car and drive around the area to look at all the lights that have been put up. Before you go though, make sure to grab some hot chocolate to take with you.