I know it sounds a bit bizarre, but in Camelot, that’s how conditions are. As the rest of the country braces for winter storms, our little Angelenos are ice skating on the beach and continue to enjoy plenty of outdoor fun at places like the South Coast Botanical Gardens.

Still. It is winter, and that’s a good time to snuggle up in your jammies at the Torrance Library’s Pajama-Rama. In Thousand Oaks, Theater League presents Lerner and Lowe’s Camelot. This is a great way to introduce girls and boys to the joys of musical theater. 

Read on for our weekday picks this week, which are just a sample of what's on our full calendar.

  Last week we kicked off 2015 with a new feature to help you enjoy even more fun activities with your kids. In addition to our  weekend events round-ups, every Monday we'll share weekday activity picks to enjoy Monday through Friday. We've also added an additional newsletter so our subscribers will get the new weekday events right in their in-box Monday mornings. Not a subscriber? Sign up now!  

This week Disney on Ice, 3D printing, and Legos are on the agenda. If you happen to be interested in a Montessori education for your child, you can visit the Washington Montessori School  in Litchfield County Tuesday - Thursday this week. They are having open houses. Of course, we have loads of events listed every day in our events calendar so please check it out. Our CT Winter Fun Guide has lots of great ideas too. Besides some ice and possible snow on Monday it looks like we will have sunshine and cold temps all week. Bundle up and enjoy!

This is our second installment of the new Mommy Poppins roundup of weekday events for kids in Westchester--and wait till you see what’s in store! The winter chill has finally arrived, so this week we’re highlighting indoor activities to keep your kids both busy and warm. While our Events Calendar is full of additional activities of interest, below are some of our top picks—one for every day, Monday through Friday. Click through for event details.

Whether your interest lies in crafting, college financial aid, healthy snacking or even paranormal investigation, we’ve got the activity for your family. What’s more, all our weekday top picks this week are FREE! So read on to learn more about Huma Beads and Popcorn Party, FAFSA 101, Paranormal/Ghost Investigation and more. 

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This edition of our weekday event roundup includes two of our top family picks for the entire month: a FREE Music for Aardvarks concert at South Street Seaport and the dance spectacle IMpossible IZZpossible at BAM. Further proof that cool things to do with kids don't just happen on the weekend.

Although we only highlight one activity per day in this post, you can find plenty of other options in our Event Calendar and Winter Fun Guide.

If you're the type who likes to go big, New York City certainly offers some over-the-top party ideas that will make your child's birthday a magical, memorable, only-in-NYC experience for kids and parents alike.

We've come up with five Manhattan party packages where young kids can enjoy unique activities worth the splurge. You can find even more party inspiration to suit every budget in our Party Guide.

After the Arctic temperatures last week, staying indoors with your kids might sound like a good idea as you mull over plans for the coming week. Our indoor picks include some great demo classes, a winter open house at the Puppet Showplace Theater, as well as a free concert with the Stacey Peasley Band to keep the kids happy inside.

If you or your little ones are going stir crazy, some outdoor activities that might appeal this week are Little Naturalists: Bears in Marshfield, Babes in the Woods in Winchester, and Little Explorers: The Mitten in Topsfield. Read on for our picks of the week, and don't forget to check out the full events calendar!

It's so cold, my mother calls every morning to find out if her grandchild is dressed appropriately for the weather. (She never asks what I'm wearing so I guess I'm too old to worry about.) Winter is here to stay for a while and (once this deep freeze dissipates a bit), we're looking forward to enjoying skiing, snow tubing and other seasonal sports near NYC and beyond.

Of course if you're the type who plans to spend the next few months holed up inside as much as possible, there are lots of fun things to do indoors with kids. To inspire you, we put together a list of 50 drop-in destinations including play spaces, interactive museum installations, arcades and more offbeat options. If you're still pining for warmer climes, check out our Travel site's roundup of our favorite family travel destinations of 2014 and then start planning your next vacation—midwinter school break is coming up next month!

And what are you doing this Saturday? Hopefully joining us at our special Mommy Poppins-sponsored performance of the eye-popping show Stella, Queen of the Snow at Symphony Space. Our readers enjoy an exclusive preshow activity and save 35% on tickets. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Here's what else we covered on the NYC site this week:

Whoo hoo, we live for nothing if not celebrating; and lucky us, yet another holiday weekend is upon us! We've had mistletoe and candy corn and champagne glasses and things made with pumpkin, but the best is yet to come because this weekend is...  it is... I know it's January and, um, for sure there's a Saturday and a Sunday, and...oh, man. I don't know how to break this to you, but I think it's just a normal weekend. No holiday. No fancy shindigs. No gifts to buy or traditional treats to bake - just you and the kids doing your everyday thing.

And that's good. We live in Southern California, so unlike the rest of the country, we can actually go outside without freezing our chimichangas off. You can explore the coastline, do a little bird watching, take a trek Into the Woods...  You can even freeze your chimmichangas off, if you’re into that sort of thing. There are also dinosaurs, Hot Wheels, and monster trucks and queens, a royal tea and a master juggler, really, something for just about everyone.

So settle back, get back in the swing of “winter” in the Southland, and enjoy life as we know it, until the next time another one of those pesky holiday things comes along to shake things up. But that won’t be until next weekend.

Keep reading for some of our most normal picks for this weekend...