Book Review: Snowy Blowy Winter by Judy Stead

What a great rhyming book with great illustrations to discuss. The children enjoyed making their own snowflake covered letter S.

Book Review: Snow Is My Favorite And My Best by Lauren Child

I love it when we can read books and see the same characters in short little video shows. Charlie and Lola are a fun brother and sister pair with cute accents and relatable life situations. We enjoyed the book and enjoyed water coloring our own striped hats like they wear. The children water colored their favorite and best stripes, then I sandwiched a Cricut cut out hat on top.

Groundhog Day

I found this idea online: use mostly heart shapes (perfect for early valentine's day), googly eyes and double sided sticky tape. Little ones can assemble their own with provided shapes, older children can try to cut their own. Use flashlights to talk about shadows if you aren't lucky enough to have a beautiful, sunny day.

Winter Crafts

Paper snowflakes - they are too tricky for younger children to cut out, so I pre-folded papers and had them draw a design with pencil. I cut the shapes out but they felt like they personalized each one.

Paper mittens - the children always love having their hands and feet traced. This way they could decorate their own mittens - lots of pink, purple, and sparkles!

Michael's craft had these large 6 inch snowflakes. All of the kids loved painting them and picking glitter too (we did end up with one covered in purple glitter.)

Fluffy cotton ball snowmen. The children customized their own snow girls after we read "What Snowmen do at Night."

Softie Tree

Feeling badly that I ask the children not to touch or holiday tree, I was glad to find this idea: a large felt tree with ornaments the children can put up and remove whenever they want to.

Penguins