Use Coleman Heaters for Your Kids' Playhouse

If your kids insist on spending some hours of the day playing in their playhouses in the yard even at the height of winter, there might be a need for you to close up the little windows in the kids play tents and seal them temporarily with tapes, so your kids will avoid getting exposed so much to the cold outside. You could also use one of those portable Coleman heaters that you have used in your previous winter camping trips, to provide the kids some warmth inside their playhouse.

The portable Coleman heaters are safe for use by the kids since these may not need any connection to an electrical outlet at the time of use. One possible danger is that a kid may pull at a wire connecting the Coleman heater (if not of the portable type) to an electrical outlet, in the absence of an adult supervising the play activity in the playhouse tent.

The kids may even request you to allow them to sleep in the outdoor playhouse kids for the night, anyway they have now something to keep them warm even if temperatures outside are below zero. With the Coleman heaters, sleeping inside the playhouse will indeed be comfortable enough for them.

If you grant their request you might even decide to sleep in the playhouse with them to be sure you are with them already out in the yard, in case a problem crops up during the night. Just bring out all your bedrolls you used for the camping trips that you often do in the months when the children are on their long vacation from school.

You could all sleep on the floor of the playhouse all bunched up together, also to give each other warmth in the cold temperature of winter. The Coleman heaters of course are your main source of heat for the night in the playhouse.

This experience will also be a good opportunity for you to spend the quality time you have always tried to do with your kids. Sleeping all bunched up together in one sleeping area is a unique way of having quality time with your children, and they will certainly relish the idea of doing the same thing more often in the future, sleeping on the floor with you.

Since it will mean too much hassle to bring out the TV set to the playhouse, maybe you can go back to that old-fashioned way of lulling the kids to sleep by telling them the bedtime stories your own folks imaginatively narrated while coaxing you to start going to dreamland in your days as a kid yourself.

The bedtime stories will be your own way of recollecting your own childhood in the days when television was not yet around and bedtime stories were the favorites kids always looked forward to every night, as they lay with their parents in the bed hugging them until they lose closeness to blissful sleep.

You could even also smile now at the funny times when your Mom then became so sleepy herself that the story she was telling did not make any sense anymore, and you had to nudge her to wake up, asking what the princess did next when the prince who brought her to the dance suddenly became a frog. Those were the days indeed!