An extended power out is the prfect time to teach survival skills. Knot tieing, tent building and inventing things in general or just talking and telling stories. My mom used to keep a box next to her sewing machine, she kept empty spools and anything we could use to build with in it. On rainy days she would give us about a foot long piece of a 2x4, some paneling nails, scraps of material, thread and about a dozen empty spools and a hammer. We made boats to use when the rain stopped. We could spend a whole day building and improving our boats. They were more like barges but it was fun. We didn't watch normally much T.V. and we didn't have video games so we didn't miss it.