Things To Do In The Snow

[Miss Muffet]

A list of ideas for activities and discussions:

To Do:

Sledging/ Tobogganning
Make snow angels
Snowball fight
Build a snowman
Build a snow sculpture
Catch snowflakes on your tongue
Fill empty washing-up liquid bottles and spray bottles with either diluted paint or water with a few drops of food colouring and 'paint' the snow
Make giant stencils and use the spray bottles mentioned above to make colourful snow pictures
Ski
Look for animal/ bird tracks/ spider webs
If you know snow is forecast, lay out items that won't be damaged by the cold to create patterns when you lift them up, or weigh down heavy cardboard - perhaps in a giant snowflake design?

To Discuss:

:chat: Where snow comes from and why we don't get snow in the summer
:chat: Which animals/ people live in snowy areas - polar bears, penguins, Eskimo/ Inuit, arctic fox, arctic wolf, arctic rabbit, whales, yeti......
:chat: Animals that hibernate in the winter
:chat: Countries that are snowy
:chat: Igloos - what they are made from, how they are built
:chat: How people travel on snow

[Ruthierhyme]

Excellent ideas there

A few more ..

• Build snow castles with plant pots !
• Bring the snow indoors to a water tray & play Arctic animals.
• Listen & tape record the sounds of crunching footsteps in the snow.
• What happens to the snow once it has been compressed with a footstep crunch can it be picked up differently to the loose snow ? a good visual analogy for wood pulp being turned into paper!
• Science project .. fill a large clear drinks bottle with snow .. measure how much liquid it produces once melted.
• Look at what melts the snow .. fire, heat, warmth - and what keeps things cold .. insulation - polystyrene, reflective materials.
• Scoop up piles of snow and wrap/ cover them in different materials. Hide a bottle with a winning message on, inside each pile and then wait to see which snow pile lasts the longest or revelas its message bottle first ..

[Ruthierhyme]

A new resource page has been added that helps with this thread, and focusses on introducing male bubble bath fragrances to the Children and to play - Sensory snow