Super Snow

If you live in the Mid-west, winter this year has been blessed with such warm weather! It feels like spring actually.  But the kids sure miss winter! D's favorite season is winter and this year has been such a disappointment for her.  Also how can you do an Antarctic Unit without playing with snow?!!

I found this product called "Super Snow" at one of the teacher supplies store.  So we decided to make our own snow.  I greeted D with this set up one day.

The process is simple, you just measure one teaspoon of this product and mix it with 4 oz of water.

Stir and stir and stir....

Here is some snow!

We made a larger batch later and D had a blast.  I am keeping this away from M as she tends to taste whatever she plays with.  I never knew about this product till date, am I the only one?

Iceberg Painting

Last Friday, we decided to be artists in Antarctica and paint an Iceberg using salt and paint! 

Here are two views of the finished product!

After we were done, we put our iceberg out in the snow!

I saw this activity here.  It might be a cool thing to do in the summer, but I thought D would enjoy it as part of our Antarctic Unit.  I was right, she spent a good amount of time on this activity and we even got to discuss some details of salt, ice and melting point!

Snowflakes - Crayon Resist Watercolor

Here is another winter activity that is popular this season both on Pinterest and the blog world.  It fit well with our Antarctica unit too.  We had an afternoon of quiet art time today.

This activity is very simple.  

1. You use white or a light colored crayon to draw snowflakes or patterns of your choice on a sheet of paper.  
2. We also did a crayon rubbing of a big snowflake and some confetti. 
3. Cut the paper into into smaller pieces.  
4. Color each piece using water colors.  
5. Assemble your artwork, hang and enjoy!  

The pieces we used for crayon rubbing, plastic snowflake ornament and confetti.

Finished work, drying.

Proud display on our Art wall.

This post is linked to Montessori Monday.

Winter Toddler Trays

Hope all of you had a wonderful holiday season.  My husband was on vacation for the last two weeks and we had an awesome, relaxing time and a lot of family bonding! We were sad to send him off to work today.  Since somebody has got to make money, we've got to live with this!

Here are some quick trays that I put together yesterday for my toddler.  I added tweezers, tongs and chopsticks where needed so that D can have an additional challenge if she chooses these trays.

Dropping Winter Themed Erasers through the  slot

Pouring/Tweezing Snowflake Confetti

Pegs on Strofoam

Dropping Ping-pong balls through Slot using Spoon/Tongs

Credit Cards Insertion into Wallet

New Ring Stacker Toy from IKEA

This post is linked to Montessori Monday.