Ugh... another snow day! The kids are thrilled, but parents are scrambling trying to find ways to keep them occupied. Once you've exhausted all the sled riding and snow painting (hunt for our Snow Paint craft on this month's Value Seekers Club page) fun everyone can handle, here are some cheap and easy indoor activities that will keep the kids — and you — from going crazy:

1. Play a rousing game of indoor four-square or hop-scotch.
   Just pick up a roll of masking tape from Dollar Tree, tape off the areas on the floor of your kitchen or hall, and let your kids get rid of some energy!
   
   
2. Build an indoor fort.
   Grab the dining room chairs and some spare blankets and create a fort! Pick up some glow sticks and flash lights at Dollar Tree and your kids are ready to spend hours in their kids-only play area.
   
   
3. Get cooking!
   Kids love to help cook and especially help eat. For some super-easy, super-cheap recipes, hunt for our Simple Two-Ingredient Fudge and Two-Ingredient Sugar Cake Cookies on this month's Vale Seekers Club page.
   
   
4. Bounce your way out of boredom.
   Open 10-15 brown paper lunch bags (available from Dollar Tree in packs of 40 for just a buck) and place them 10-15" apart on one side of the kitchen. Grab some small balls (also available at Dollar Tree) and challenge the kids to see who can bounce or throw the most balls into the bags.
   
   
5. Bowling tournament, anyone?
   Grab two 6 packs of bottled water at Dollar Tree (just $1 a pack) and pour out most of the water from each bottle, leaving just about an inch of water to give the bottles a little weight and stability. Don't waste the water... pour it into a pitcher and put it in the fridge for later. Set 10 bottles up like bowling pins and roll small balls at them (also available at Dollar Tree). See who can get the most strikes!