How to dress your kid for their first day of skiing

Ready to head to your first day of skiing, but unsure how to dress your child for a great first day?

The video below helps parents select and put on the right ski clothing for their kids. In watching the video, you will learn about dressing your kids for their first day of skiing successfully. Getting kids dressed for skiing efficiently and effectively is an important step to arrive at the mountain with minimal stress!

Dressing Kids for Their First Day of Skiing

In this video you will find a head-to-toe clothing guide for comfortable skiing all day long. Important considerations include:

• getting kids dressed for their first day of skiing
• using layering to adjust your clothes as the day gets warmer
• important safety gear (gloves, goggles, face mask, helmet)
• not over heating, and what to remove if your child gets too hot while skiing
• where to write your kids name on their ski gear

Establishing a routine to put on your kids ski gear

Getting a routing in place for putting on ski gear is really important. As you can imagine, getting dressed and fed, and then travelling to the mountain for a 9am lesson is often a challenge.

Important steps we take to be ready each morning are:

• Going to sleep in our long johns / long underwear the night before
• Laying out clothes on the floor the night before, in the order they dress in, so our kids can manage getting dressed themselves and are not constantly asking “where’s my ….”
• No tech and no breakfast until you are dressed to ski (minus boots, jacket, helmet and gloves)
• We wear the majority of our clothes we ski in while we drive to the resort, that way we are not trying to put on a lot of layers in the cold parking lot!
• We bring a waterproof bag to stash layers in, that we typically leave in the base area, which prevents us from having to go all the way back to our car as the day warms up

Get good at getting your child dressed for their day of skiing will help everything go more smoothly. And, having layering options that don’t force you to return to the car at lunch, is an important strategies to keep everyone sane and skiing.

Treat yourself to a calm first ski day by having the assurance that you’ve got the right gear for your kid, put on the right way!

Learn about other kids ski gear

To learn more about what gear to use when dressing for your first day of skiing, our blog has lots of ideas for you in the Gear Section here https://teachyourkidtoski.com/category/gear/

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