Snow Dough

I have 2 AMAZING recipes for Snow Dough.

Recipe 1: Snow Dough
2 cups cornstarch
1/3 to 1/2 vegetable oil or baby oil
3 - 4 Tbsp of silver glitter

Mix ingredients until combined. It should feel smooth, slightly damp, and mold easily.

Recipe 2: Snow Playdough

2 cups cornstarch

1 cup salt

1 1/2 boiling water

2 Tbsp cream of tartar

2 Tbsp vegetable oil

silver glitter

Mix all ingredients until well combined.

What they are learning as they play:

Sensory: exploring through sensory investigation, learning new descriptive language

Literacy: story telling, vocabulary development

Science/ Knowledge & Understanding of the World: combining materials, recipes, geography and habitats

Creativity: imaginative play, forming sculptures

Maths: counting out measurements

Cute Bulletin Board Idea

A FB friend posted her bulletin board from her classroom. She is a CD teacher in Florence School District 3. The students created self portraits "catching snowflakes". Then they wrote about snowflakes; how they feel and look.  Love this idea! Thanks Teresa Cusaac.

Winter Math Activities

Great Resource for some "Snow" much fun math activities.

Check this out:"Snow" Much Fun Math Activities

Winter Animals Videos

I came across this site and it has wonderful you tube videos on Polar Bears and Penguins.
Thought you could use this if you talk about animal habitats in the winter.

Enjoy.

 Winter Animal Videos

Snowman Buttons

Snowman Buttons

In this fun math activity students read the number/number word on the snowman's hat and place the correct number of buttons. You could write addition/subtraction problems on the hat and have students place the number of buttons to represent the answer. They could even write/draw the equation in a Snowman Button booklet.

Materials:

Die cut snowmen and playdough balls for the buttons. Or foam snowmen with real buttons. I found these really cute foam, sparkly snowmen at Michael's craft store for a little of nothing after Christmas. I added a foam hat and some buttons. How cute!