How Many Ways to Make Snowpeople

Make Salt Dough Snowpeople

Salt Clay

Equal parts of salt and flour

Mix water into salt and flour mixture until you get the consistency of play dough.

Air Dry

Make Sandpeople

 

Put damp sand in your sensory table.

Make Collage Snowpeople

Provide children with items that they can create their own snowperson.

Make Recycled Snowpeople

Have the children bring in a can from home that would be placed in the trash and let them turn it into a tin version of a snowman.

Make Snowpeople Anyway they want

Provide items in your creative art area that could be used to make a snowperson with.

Sandman Sensory Tub

Let your children create sandmen in the sensory table or tubs. Bring in some sand and shovel it into some plastic tubs or dishpans. Add corn starch or flour and dampen the sand with water the corn starch/flour will help it stick together better. Place different sizes of ice cream scoops, melon scoops, measuring spoons, cookie scoops, bowls and empty water bottles. Cut the bottles in half so the children can utilize both ends. Provide the children with buttons, goggle eyes, pipe cleaners, twigs, pieces of rectangular fabric, milk caps, craft straw hats and felt craft hats.



Watch the sculpting begin, your children will be creating their own version of the Sandman.


Some children do not get to have the opportunity to build snowmen, but they see the symbol of snowpeople all around, so give them the opportunity to build one out of sand, who said that they can only be made from snow. Some times it just the experiences that is meaningful.

Science Discoveries with Rain Meter

Over the few weeks it has been rain a lot around here, so we are going to be placing a rain meter outside this week so that the children can record the rain fall.

Here is what they will learn:


Children will gain knowledge about the changes of weather. Children will develop measuring and time skills by recording rainfall over a period of time.


Children will learn about what it would be like to be a meteorologist. They will discover and learn about weather words and the works of meteorologists as they begin to observe, describe and record the weather.


Children will be able to create a Weather chart. How many days are sunny, cloudy, rainy or windy.


Each day have the children find the weather of the day on the weather wheel. Chart it on the chart and keep a running record.


Here is how to make a rain catcher.

• Take a 2 liter bottle and cut the top off about 4” from the top.
• Place the screwed top end inside the new opening of the bottle. Tape
   around the edge.
• With permanent marker, mark the inches on the outside of the bottle.
• Place outside so it can collect rain.

Teacing with Socks

Sock Match

Socks make for a fun sensory matching game.  Children can match and group socks into different categories.  (striped, polka dotted, solid, and fuzzy)  

When they are done matching and sorting into groups they can use them with clothes pin and hang them out to dry.  This is a great activity to build on those fine motor skills children won’t even know that they are preparing themselves for writing.

Encourage them to hang them up by pairs.

So go ahead clean out all those sock drawers and bring them to school on Monday and watch the fun begin.