Here are some for fun winter activities to try today!

• Go outside and explore snow or ice formations. Look at hanging icicles and snow drifts. Encourage your child to explore the snow in many different ways– make snowballs, build a snow fort, make angels in the snow, roll down a snowy slope, make snow cones with fresh snow and maple syrup. Create letters and words in the snow using branches or other objects found outside.
• Talk with your child about how the snow looks and feels and help your child build their vocabulary with new words.
• Build a snowperson. Measure your child and the snow person. Who is the taller? Who is wider? This will help your child build beginning math concepts. Watch the snowperson change over the next few days. This will strengthen early science and observation skills.
• When you get back inside, why not heat up some hot cocoa and get out the art supplies? Encourage your child to draw pictures and narrate a story about the snowperson. Write down what your child says and together create a book. This activity will help your child build understanding about reading and writing.
• Snow is white. How many white things can you find in your house? How many things can you find around the house that RHYME with white?
• Visit the library and take out some books to read together about snow and winter. Some of our latest favorites are:
  • Ice Cream Bear by Jez Alborough
  • It’s Snowing! It’s Snowing!” by Jack Prelutsky
  • Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton