One of the ways I'd like to make our long, cold winter cozy and fun instead of tedious and demoralizing, I'd like to find some low-stakes projects that our little family can do together while eating snacks and listening to music. Jigsaw puzzles are an obvious choice, and will definitely be on the menu, but it would be fun to have some other options.
We are a family of 2 adults and a 5-year-old. 5-year old has average fine-motor skills and well-above-average literacy and numeracy. The kid is more into arts-and-crafts than the adults, but we all like board games and building/putting together things. We'd like something we can chip away at over a few days or a week and it should be collaborative. We should all be able to work on it at the same time, or one person should be able to sit down and poke at it for a few minutes independently. We live in a small house, so this project will need to share space with other activities like eating.
Some things we've talked about are a big lego kit we could build together, a 3-D puzzle (are those fun?) and a model kit.