Keep Your Family Safe and Entertained During a Storm

We put together some tips to help keep your family safe and entertained while staying inside during a hurricane or storm.

BEFORE THE STORM

• Be sure to fully charge electronic devices (charge your portable battery chargers too!)
• Download movies, audiobooks and games onto those devices so they are accessible if your internet is disabled
• Give your children their own flashlight (this can provide them comfort and empowerment during the storm)
• Give your children headphones (noise-cancelling headphones can help calm frightened children)
• Consider a trip to the bookstore before the storm to let your children pick out new books, coloring books and crafts

DURING THE STORM

• Build a fort together in a safe closet or room away from windows and set it up as a theater with snacks, a cooler, soft blanket and pillow
• Have a scavenger hunt (with or without a flashlight)
• Draw and color portraits of each other
• Make themed collages out of pictures and words cuts from old magazines
• Write a letter to your future selves
• Hurricane The Musical: Write and perform a silly play about the hurricane
• Choreograph a dance and perform