Hope everyone is staying warm and healthy during our cold January. If the temperature ever gets warm enough for taking children outside to experience all this snow, try taking along small containers of water, colored with food coloring, and eye droppers to make beautiful pictures in the snow. An idea tried in several classrooms is to bring the snow inside in plastic trays or tubs.
Children can create snow people and snow creatures.
Hide small plastic animals under the snow for the children to find. Add small shovels and pails or plastic butter tubs and children can dig and mold shapes. Remember that children's hands may get cold pretty fast. Invite them to put on their mittens while they continue to play. The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats is a wonderful book to read this time of year.