Thread: What to do with kids in Winter?

Can anyone please tell me good ideas for things to do in Zurich with children in the winter? I have a five year old and 14 year old twins.

Quote: Sarahvienna Can anyone please tell me good ideas for things to do in Zurich with children in the winter? I have a five year old and 14 year old twins. A quick look at the Urdorf website would suggest that there is lots going on in your area from story hour, to crafts to supporting the local ice hockey club! Good luck with that, Jim

I could recommend indoor climbing. Check two places here: http://www.kletterzentrum.com/images/splash/splash.html The deal there is that you need to take a 200SFr safety course first, but then you are allowed to anchor your own kids. Once you have the safety certificate, which is VERY EASY to get (pay and show up), the prices are reasonable for kids to visit later, some 15-23SFr, depending on the day of week and it's even less if you...

Get them skiing or snowboarding, asap! The twins will be the perfect age to start boarding, and the 5-year old could do into a Kinder ski-club first to find his fee, there are tons of other kids the same age whizzing around the slopes!

I agree with Richdog....skiing/snowboarding! In terms of ski schools, we had very limited success for our young one in the Swiss ski schools you find everywhere. We started at Brunni and tried a few others, but we feel they are MASS and don't typically have enough instructors for the amount of young children they are trying to ski. Our daughter was bored to tears at 4 and 5 years old. However, last year I stumbled upon the Vreni Schneider...

Quote: Sarahvienna Can anyone please tell me good ideas for things to do in Zurich with children in the winter? I have a five year old and 14 year old twins. Just a thought - Have you actually asked your children what they want to do?

Quote: Tom1234 Just a thought - Have you actually asked your children what they want to do? Probably play Xbox or buy shoes

Chores.

not sure about winter , but here's a great one for spring ; buy a box of smarties ...take out all colours except GREEN . throw 12 green smarties onto the lawn. tell the little ones you have thrown thirteen out and they must find them all before returning indoors. sit back , relax.

Artificially induced hibernation perhaps?