We started our Winter & Snow week by making our own snowflakes since we don’t exactly get real snow where we live!

Little Bug got to practice her scissor skills. We also talked about how each snowflake we made was different and unique from all the others. That is the way God made us – no two people are exactly alike!

We made our snowflakes from coffee filters! This was one Mommy cut out.

We made five snowflakes and hung them with white ribbon on the window!

We read the story The Little Snowflake. It’s about a little snowflake who desired so much to be part of the snowman the children were making. Just when the snowflake is about to lose hope, he becomes a special part of the snowman – the twinkle in the snowman’s eye! This is a very cute story.

Little Bug found words that had the same beginning sound as the letter on the snowman.

We made a Newspaper Snowman!

It’s what you do when it is in the 70’s in January and there is no snow around!

We did Snowman Math. Little Bug used her Do A Dot markers to make the snowmen according to the number on the paper.

We played “How Many Scoops?” This introduced Little Bug to the concept of “estimation”. I got four different sized containers, a bowl of marshmellows and a scoop. Little Bug first had to guess how many scoops it would take to fill each container. Then she actually scooped the marshmellows into each container, counting them as she went.

We made a chart to record Little Bug’s estimates and the actual number of scoops each container held. (Those numbers are exactly what she guessed!)

I let her eat 3 marshmellows before we began because I knew if I didn’t that would be ALL that was on her mind.

Puffy Snowflake Painting was loads of fun!

First you mix equal parts of self-rising flour and salt together with water to make it pancake batter consistency. Anything to do with “cooking” this girls loves!

Then I separated the batter into three smaller bowls so Little Bug could put food coloring in them! She chose red, yellow and blue.

Then I put each color into a zip-lock bag, cut a snip in one corner and Little Bug used the baggie to squeeze the paint onto the paper.

After drawing the design on the paper, we put the paper on the cookie sheet into the microwave and cooked on high for 30 seconds!

The paint rises and makes a cool design!

This was certainly one of our messier projects but worth it.

- Elaine