Winter Themed Activities

Here are our other winter themed activities we did this last few weeks :)

Salt and Glitter - Bam! This used way more glitter than I had imagined but turned out great and Little loves it. She's more into placing things into the sand (snow flakes, gems, etc.) but next year we will incorporate letters and writing. I glued the snow flakes onto the q-tips and paint brush using white glue. The glue worked well on the paint brush, but I'll need to hot glue the snow flakes to the q-tips next year.

Sticky Wall - Invitation to build -
Materials:

• Contact paper
• Cotton Balls
• Q-tips

I suggested we could build a snow man, but sorting and lining up the items was way more interesting for the Little.

 Here's our Sparkly Snow Paint - I added white paint, but if you leave it out it will be more "fluffy" when done. We'll try it again later this week without the paint and see the effect. The added peppermint to the mixture added an extra sense to discuss while painting.

Shots of play in action!

Little Ry's sensory snow bottle - salt, glitter (took it from the writing invitation), snow flakes, sparkles, pom poms, and cotton balls. Little suggested we add penguins, so we'll be doing that :) 

Arctic Ice Play

I used square ice cube trays, a block of ice we had in the freezer, and the animals from our sensory bin earlier in the month. Little decided that she needed mittens because her hands were getting chilly :)