I live in the Pineywoods of East Texas. It doesn't snow here. In fact, I believe the last time we had snow (which was absolutely beautiful) it was 2009... let me see if I can find a picture....
Here we go. These are colored pictures that are completely unfiltered. That snow was like God had placed a beautiful fluffy blanket completely untouched across our town. It was breathtaking.
That was 7 years ago, and it has not happened again since. In fact, yesterday the temperature was about 78 degrees, but dropped about 50 degrees overnight. Get with the program, Texas.
Anyway.... my girl has never seen nor touched snow, and who knows when she will. This whole week we focused on The Woodland in out Winter in the Woods unit. I skipped the lessons on Pine trees and Pine cones since we live in the Pineywoods, and we focused on the 3 topics we never see around here:
Icicles, Snowmen, and Snowflakes.
The first thing Sweet Pea and I did during Snow Week was make SNOW using this recipe card provided by Mother Goose Time!
I made a half batch which was plenty for me and my girl and she had a blast packing it into her 1/2 Tbsp to make half snow balls.
It held it's shape well and even was cold to the touch! It was a mess, but nothing 30 seconds with the vacuum cleaner couldn't handle. Look at that cheesy grin! Totally worth the mess for the memories.
We then made a snowflake in our Invitation to Create.
Coffee filter, watered down blue finger paint, glue, glitter, and a pipette.
I always attach her coffee filters to water color paper. If you take the filter off before it dries completely, it leaves some of the most beutiful abstract images on the paper. I didn't remove the coffee filter this time.
If your child is able to handle scissors, I would first suggest cutting the snowflake and then proceed to paint. We did not cut ours.
She worked on her fine motor skills squeezing the pipette to get the paint on her snowflake.
After the paint, she added glue and glitter!
She decided she wasn't done with the paint and added more... in fact towards the end, she just dumped all that was left over her work.
Beautiful! I love getting up close shots of Sweet Pea's artwork.
The last thing we did during our Snow Week was build a snowman! Our Little Goose Guide had suggested an activity called "Dress the Snowman" which was a felt activity of changing out what the snowman would wear.
Instead, I set out a tray for Sweet Pea to dress her snowman permanently with glue.
Before Sweet Pea took her nap, I read the book Snowmen at Night...twice. She really loved the book and hidden pictures. There are paperback versions for less than $6.00.
While she napped, I put this Invitation to Create together and placed it on her table. In her tray, I placed sequins, jewels, googly eyes, pom poms, buttons, and ribbon cut so Sweet Pea could make scarves if she wanted. I used my cricut to cut several 3 different sized circles. I was hoping she would build lots of different snowmen, but she only built a few.
See that snowman with the heart? When I turned him around, he looked like this!
Isn't that amazing! I don't know if she planned this or what, but the way he came together is absolutely perfect! 2 green eyes, a straight nose, a red circle mouth and a heart right where his heart would be in his chest! I was floored when I turned her work around and saw this!
To top it all off, our public library talked about Snowmen on Wednesday at our story time and had a craft set up for us to make paper plate snowmen which Sweet Pea is pointing to below.
Even though the temperatures here would never allow for snow this past week, we absolutely loved all our snow activities provided by Mother Goose Time!
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