Things To Do In The 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 ..