Don’t let cold temperatures outside keep you inside this winter. Freshly fallen snow can create a whole new playground for your family. Bundle up and get out there with these frosty fun ideas.

Build a snow dome. Clear a wide area in the snow. Using hands or shovels, mound up snow in the middle of the clearing. Once the pile reaches about 6 feet high, let it sit for a few hours so it can harden. Dig an entrance to your dome by hollowing out the snow from the mound. Continue to remove snow from the inside until you’ve created a dome with walls about one foot thick. Stick a pole through the top for ventilation.

Tag, you’re it. Snow is the perfect venue for a rousing game of tag. Play one variation where the pursued players can only step in others’ footprints. Or try blob tag, where the tagged person holds hands with the person who is it. Together they tag others, adding to their blob. The blob can divide and conquer if it gets big enough.

Keep track. Find out what animals are out this winter by searching for animal tracks left in the snow. Be a detective and figure out what the animal was doing when it made its tracks. Was it hunting for food, bedding down or something else?

Create a snow castle. Using makeshift molds from your kitchen such as plastic tubs, cake pans, muffin tins or loaf pans, build a castle to make any ice princess (or prince!) proud. Pack a mold with snow, then invert it to build castle walls, spires and turrets.

Color your world. Tired of white snow? Fill spray bottles with chilled water. Add a few drops of food coloring to each bottle. The more drops, the deeper the color. Then spray the snow with the water to create a painting or just to add some color to your lawn.

Snow bank. Dig a hole in the snow. One player guards the hole as the banker. The other players get five objects, such as large buttons, pinecones or acorns, then take turns tossing their objects into the hole. For the number they pitch in, they receive that number of objects back to try again. Players are eliminated when they run out of objects to throw into the “bank.” The player with the most remaining objects at the end of the game wins and gets to be the next banker.

Want more ideas? Build a disc golf course out of snow and see how fast members of your family can get through it… Play tug-of-war with teams divided randomly or by age or gender… Catch falling snowflakes on a piece of black cloth or paper and then compare their shapes and spokes.