Winter Wonderland

With winter in full swing, we started January with some "cool" activities! We tried some iceskating with paper plates, drawing our numbers and letter using shaving cream "snow". We had the best indoor snowball fight using rolled up white socks.
Art:  1. Popcicle stick snowflakes- paint blue and sprinkle with glitter.

       2. Snow man picture- mix equal parts of shaving cream and glue and use to paint a snow man or snow scene.

      3. Snowflake Handprint picture- paint fingers white and press down on blue paper in a circle. Add poem:     Snowflakes white are dancing down
              Dancing Dancing all around.
             Each one is different
              It's surely true.
               Here's one I made
               from me to you.

4. Penguin Art- have children rip white paper to make snow drifts. Dip their thumb in white paint to make penguin body. Then in black to make wings on each side of body. After it is dry, kiddos can add orange nose and feet.


Journals: Draw half of a snowman for each child, and ask them to finish the drawing.
Snow is.........
When it snows I like to...........


MATH: 1:1 Correspondance  Count out snowflake stickers.

Storytime:

We had a snowman made out of cardboard, and a bunny puppet and used this poem to tell the story.
    Chubby Little Snowman
There was a chubby snowman
and he had a carrot nose
along came a bunny
and what do you suppose?

The hungry little bunny was looking for his lunch
He grabbed that snoamans carrot nose
and NIBBLE NIBBLE CRUNCH!

I also made a finger play puppets using an old pair of gloves, and glues felt snowmen on the fingertips.
 10 little Snowmen on a hill
freezing cold and standing still.
The sun came out with it's warm rays
and one little snow men melted away.

 put down finger as each snowman melts away.