We had a nice surprise this morning before heading off to preschool – it snowed! Usually, we have lots of snow by now but this was our first “real” snow day this school year. So we had to take advantage of it…
The children managed to scrape together just enough snow to build a snowman. They added a nose and ears using some of the play food from our classroom. They also added Ms. Abby’s scarf as the final touch…
On their way back into the classroom, the children were given small trays to scrape up some snow and bring back with them. I had thought they would bring in a small amount but they chose to pick up as much snow as they could carry…
And so we had to drag out the big magnet board to put some of the snow on and the rest of it stayed on the individual trays…
At first, I only set out paintbrushes and colored water for the children to paint their snow…
But once the children got started, I decided to add droppers to the process too…
The children liked the droppers best. They liked poking holes into the snow and then adding the color inside the holes. The droppers made them feel like they were scientists…
The children took their time exploring, examining, and coloring the snow…
Some of the children preferred to work on their own little tray of snow and some preferred to work on the big group tray of snow…
This wasn’t a planned activity for the day but how can you resist not making a snow day out of a snow day?
Once the children decided they were done exploring the snow, we piled all the colorful snow on the large tray and took it back outside…
By the end of the day, most of the snow had already melted away but perhaps we will have one more day of snow before spring! We shall see!
