What a fun week, we played, we learned, we sang, we had a great week. We did lot's of white things this week because our color was white. For several years I have done this winter art that someone shared with me. You color a snow scene on blue construction paper and then do a wash of epson salts and water over it. As it drys the epson salts makes a milky crystal glaze over the page. Winter time!!!!!!
I think the most fun thing we did was mix up ingredients to make our own hot chocolate and then we had "snownuts" , which are really powder sugar donuts. What made it all even more fun was my finding a site with a cute little song to use and some other great hot chocolate ideas, like counting marshmellows in a cup, and something I will definitely use next year, using a large marshmellow with white paint on brown paper, to show the marshmellow in the chocolate. The site for the hot chocolate was a blog called
littlefingersthatplay.blogspot.com.
Look back to last years winter post for a trashbag snowman idea. A teacher friend of mine just did this last week and she just stuffed the bags ahead of time for all the children to use the 3 trash bag balls and all the supplies for a snow man in homeliving. I loved her revision of the idea. We talked about how it would be cool to wrap those bags in batting, and put velcro on them so they would stay stacked better so I will be trying that out this weekend. with batting I think that you could even use felt pieces for the buttons and eyes nose and mouth, and just have a variety of hats and scarfs for them to choose from.
On another note, the sensory table is usually filled with Steven Spanglers fake snow, and letter cubes, and other white things, for a snow sensation, but I did not realize in time that I was out of the wonderful stuff. This year I am using the fake snow from the Christmas decorations. It has not got the same feel but it looks like snow. This week we had to find the letters and make the words hot, cold and winter, next week I will add white packing peanuts for them to pick up with tongs and scoop up with scoopers.
