Erica from the Greater Reston Arts Center posted this on Reston Patch:

Greater Reston Arts Center has a walk in art making program called Explore More which is designed for preschool and elementary school aged children. $5 fee gets you an Art Bucket and you can enjoy your child's creativity without making a mess at home, scraping glue off your table, or vacuuming glitter from the floor! Call us 703.471.9242 we are open today and tomorrow.

I added a few photos of snow fun that gets the kids out of the house, but not to another indoor place. There are great places to go and do things, but there is really a lot to do just OUTSIDE.

It's a great time to watch birds at feeders, too. Many places can put outdoor feeders where they can watch the birds eat from inside. It's a bit late in the season, but people with grade-school-and-up kids (adults, too of course) can join PROJECT FEEDER WATCH with Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Some kids really get into keeping track of what birds visit their feeder(s). Some don't. They can I.D. birds online with a laptop or i-pod app (or, oh dear, a book).

Best food we use, that is liked by MANY species of birds, is hulled sunflower seeds (sometimes called "sunflower chips") -- they have the seeds removed from the shells, so even woodpeckers and bluebirds who can't crack big sunflower seeds with shells eat them because they are rich. Also, no shells on the ground to make a mess. The Bird Feeder in Reston or other wild bird specialty stores have the sunflower chips. They ALL get eaten.

Goldfinches enjoy Niger thistle seeds all winter, too -- after they have eaten the seeds of the flowerheads of Echinacea/Coneflower that bloomed in the Fall.
I added some file photos; haven't done bird photos since we went to digital cameras. I'll bet someone out there has lots of good bird photos. Maybe that's a question to ask on Patch -- or at the Bird Feeder.