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White Like the Falling Snow
For many, January is a time of snow, ice and cloudy skies – a perfect time to focus on the color white.
- Whether you live in Minneapolis or Miami, your child will enjoy reading about a snow day in Ezra Jack Keats' The Snowy Day (Viking Press, 1962).
- Mix one can of shaving cream, one water-resistant surface (such as a clean tabletop), and 10 eager little fingers and you've got winter fun. Let your child squirt out the shaving cream, then play in the fluffy white mess – drawing with his fingers, burying waterproof toys in the "snow banks." You can even help your child add a few drops of food coloring to the shaving cream, providing an instant lesson in how adding darker colors change when white is added. (Make sure to supervise – shaving cream doesn't belong in eyes or mouths – and dress your child in washable clothing.)
- Make marshmallow snowmen.
You'll need:
Large marshmallows (three per snowman)
Hershey's Kisses
Mini M&Ms candies (or other small colored candies)
Candy corn
Red licorice strings
Pretzel sticks
Toothpicks (one per snowman)
Tube of white cake icing (small tip)Put three marshmallows together with icing and toothpicks. Then, let your child count out M&Ms for his snowman's eyes, buttons and mouth. Help him secure the M&Ms with tiny dabs of icing. Then add a "carrot" nose (candy corn), arms (pretzel sticks), a warm scarf (licorice string) and a hat (Hershey's Kiss).
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