Snip, Snip, Snow

This past week Bekah was sick with a virus, so we ended up snuggling on the couch watching Blues Clues numerous times. When she was finally up to it, we read the book Snip, Snip, Snow by Nancy Poydar.

The story is really cute. It's about a little girl who really wants it to snow. She goes to school and begs her teacher to make snowflakes, so they make them out of paper. When they finish making the snowflakes they look outside and are so excited to see that it's finally snowing. At the end, there are directions to make your own paper snowflakes, so Bekah and I did just that.


We actually used coffee filters and just flattened them out a bit.

Bekah needed quite a bit of help folding and cutting the snowflakes out, but the look on her face when we unfolded the filter to reveal the snowflake was priceless!


After we had finished quite a few snowflakes I suggested hanging them up on our living room window. She is so proud of these snowflakes!

stART - The Snowy Day

Last week I was able to get the book, The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats from our library. It is such an adorable book about a little boy who discovers snow outside his window one day. After enjoying our own snowy day we used this book for our stART project.


We took white paint and mixed it with some flour (I didn't measure this out, I just mixed until it was a nice consistency).

Then, I put the paint mixture on a piece of blue construction paper and smoothed it out to look like a covering of snow.
Daddy went outside to get a stick for our project. When he came back, Bekah went to town making tracks in the "snow".




We also took some of her animals and made footprints in the snow. She really had fun with this!

You can see what others have done over at A Mommy's Adventures.

Snow Play Doh

Although we have a lot of snow outside our door, it has been so frigid that we haven't been out to play in it lately. Bekah is fascinated with making snowmen, so I decided it was a wonderful time to make some snow dough. I made the mistake of telling her I was making it, so every few minutes she was asking if it was done yet! This play dough recipe was easy to make and turned out nicely.

We were able to roll it out and use cookie cutters.


And also got to make some indoor snowmen!


Here's the recipe:
Snow Playdoh

2 cups water
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
4 tsp. cream of tartar
4 tsp. oil
glitter
-Combine ingredients in heavy saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly with wooden spoon until it thickens and pulls away from sides. Form into a ball, place on waxed paper and cool. Knead in glitter.