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50+ Fun Winter Activities to Do With Your Kids Before New Year's Eve

Savor the season -- and get ready for 2013 -- with these creative winter fun ideas and inspiration. (55 Photos)

Holly Pevzner and Erika Rasmusson Janes on Nov 19, 2012 at 5:26PM

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50+ Fun Winter Activities to Do With Your Kids Before New Year's Eve

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50+ Things You and the Kids Should Do Before New Year's Eve

The very last thing moms need is another to-do list. What they really, truly need is a stay-happy list, a be-organized list, a to-enjoy list. We've combined all of that in one jam-packed compilation of 50-plus ideas and inspirations to help even the most harried of moms usher in 2013 with a big ol' smile on her face. Enjoy!

Create Fun Crafts With the Kids
Crafts! Crafts! Crafts! It's (almost) the best way to spend cold-as-ice afternoons. Cut mittens out of doilies and string them up with yarn; grab glitter and printer paper for homemade snow flakes; slide photos or drawings inside empty snow globes; fill old tights with cotton, grab googly eyes and felt and you've got a silly door sweep. That, or go to crafty sites like orientaltrading.com (split a few orders with friends) and order all the glue stick-worthy goodness you could possibly need and create away.