Snow Days!

Snow and January go together here in the Northeast U.S. - and the kids love to get out and play in it, making snowmen, snow angels, snow forts, etc. 

When you're done with the cold stuff, make a paper snowman! First, cut three different sized circles from cardboard (a discarded cereal box works great!) and then let your children use them as stencils to trace around and cut circles from white construction paper. This is great for some small-motor exercise, as well as sizing lessons (small, medium, large). 

Make a snow scene, with your snowman as the centerpiece and use cotton swabs dipped in white paint to create your own storm! (I had some snowmen cutouts available, so we made these in school!) Decorate your snowman with markers, scraps of fabric, buttons, whatever you want …

Don't forget to add a little literacy … come up with a name for your snowman, and have your child stretch the sounds to spell it out on paper. Have them write a few sentences telling about the snowman OR a step-by-step "How-To" story about how they made it! Transition words like First, Next, Then and Last or Finally, will get the facts in order :)

Have fun with it, and stay warm!