We had so much fun studying snow this month and the Lord blessed us with a snowstorm the first day we took on the challenge. We tried to catch snow flakes on dark paper but the snow crystals were too tiny and hard, once we came inside it decided to snow big, fat, fluffy flakes - figures. Little Man had the grand idea of making snow balls to include on the Nature Table, which is actually a floor until we can find us a bookshelf or table to use. They all thought that was a great idea and love touching and playing with them, until their hands froze. Later in the day Little Man told me his snowballs had disappeared and turned into water, what a great impromptu science lesson.
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Our favorite part about January is we always bring out our favorite snow and winter books. We keep these in our seasonal book basket that we have included on our Nature Table (floor). The first book of the new year is always Snowflake Bently followed by his book of photographs Snow Crystals. Little Man will spend the days pouring over the snow crystals, he is so intrigued by them. We then had to create our own snow flakes to display on the seasonal artwork door.
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The best part about snow is playing in it, right? I mixed up some food coloring in water and filled some spray bottles, squirt bottles and buckets with paint brushes and let them have at it. They had so much fun coloring their snow sculptures and then creating their own snow ball colors. We also built a snowman and Big Woman wanted to do as the children did in Stranger in the Woods and fill the snowman's head with bird seed.
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Our Favorite Winter Time Books
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