Things To Do In The Snow
 

A list of ideas for activities and discussions:

To Do:

:snowflake: Sledging/ Tobogganning
:snowflake: Make snow angels
:snowflake: Snowball fight
:snowflake: Build a snowman
:snowflake: Build a snow sculpture
:snowflake: Catch snowflakes on your tongue
:snowflake: 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
:snowflake:Make giant stencils and use the spray bottles mentioned above to make colourful snow pictures
:snowflake: Ski
:snowflake: Look for animal/ bird tracks/ spider webs
:snowflake: 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

Excellent ideas there :cheerful:

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 :D 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 ..

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