Snow Day Plan for Working Parents: Kids' Hourly Schedule and Door Sign

Snow Day Plan for Working Parents is a 12-page printable PDF for a parent who works from home, has just read the school-closure text, and has children about 5 to 10 and meetings to get through. Print it ahead of the winter and keep it where you can reach it at 5:40 am.

What is inside:
- Page 2: how it works, a ten-minute morning routine and the five block types (move, make, quiet, eat, check-in).
- Page 3: an hour-by-hour schedule from 7:00 to 4:00, with a column for your meetings and a column for the kids' blocks.
- Page 4: the rules for the kids.
- Pages 5 and 6: two door signs, "On a call: come back at ___" and "Come in: I am free until ___".
- Pages 7 and 8: 20 screen-free, low-mess activities, ten for ages 5 to 7 and ten for ages 8 to 10.
- Page 9: lunch the children make themselves, with no stove, oven or sharp knife.
- Page 10: a snow day bag packing list, a snack box list, and who to text at 5:40.
- Page 11: an end-of-day tidy checklist for kids and parent.
- Page 12: notes for the next closure day and a closure day log.

It is written for US Letter and prints cleanly on A4. Adult notes cover scissors and the kitchen. Nothing here replaces your own judgment about what your children can do alone.

This printable was created with the help of AI tools, then checked fact by fact.

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