The aim of this game was to try and get the "snowball" in the plate. The snowball was a styrofoam ball. I taped foil plates onto the table and we used toilet paper rolls to blow the ball into the plate. Another game we played is called Copy Cat. I used cotton balls (as snowballs, of course) and I positioned them on a board then the class had to copy my picture with their own "snowballs". In another version of this game I asked everyone to copy on their white board what I had made with the cotton balls.
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Now what would a winter theme be without hot chocolate. First, everyone cut out the cup and then put glue on the top and sprinkled hot chocolate over it. And of course, we had to add marshmallows! Everyone got 4 to eat (because "We're 4!") and the rest were glued on top. Then they counted how many and wrote the number. Then...hot chocolate for snack!
Puffed paint is made with equal parts of self-rising flour and salt. Then add enough water to make a pancake like consistency. I put the mixture in squeeze bottles I found at the Dollar Store. For our craft everyone traced the snowflake. Then I pop it in the microwave and volia! dry puffed paint!
We played some games in class with winter clothes; hats, mittens, scarves and coats. The first was a relay. One at a time, each child ran to the other end of the room and put one article of clothing on and ran back to the start and then it was someone else's turn. It was soooo much fun! The kids were laughing and cheering each other on! Another day, we used hats, mittens, and scarves to dress a "snowman" (a child). Everyone then had to close their eyes while I changed something on the snowman, an article of clothing. Then I asked one child ( I used the Miss Dawn vs the class game, so that everyone didn't shout out the answer) to tell me what was different about the snowman. This game was a great way to reinforce language skills..."Before the snowman was wearing... and now he is wearing...."
Messy crafts are not for everyone. I thought this craft would be lots of fun but was surprised that not everyone was interested in getting dirty.
I mixed shaving cream and white glue to make "snow". I was quickly told that it was "smelly snow". Everyone was encouraged to play and then on a sheet of paper they could make a snowman. ![]() We played lots of games with these mittens. For one game I hid a snowball (circle cut out of white paper) under a mitten. For each child's turn we sang a little song and then they got to guess under which mitten the snowball might be hidden. They were encouraged to use the number on the mitten. We also hung these mittens in order on the clothesline. I put the mittens together, like a pack of cards and each child picked a number and that was how many "snowballs" (crumpled up paper that was thrown around the room) they had to pick up. The thing was they could only use clothespins to pickup the "snowballs" because snowballs are very cold, you know, and we weren't wearing our mittens! For another mitten craft we threaded wool around a mitten and then decorated a mitten Everyone was asked to bring in two pairs of mittens. During circle time, we counted how many mittens and then we counted how many pairs. We talked about what a pair is and about matching. As a game, I took one mitten from each pair and hid it in the classroom. The children had the other mitten and then had to find their match. When they had the pair they could come and hang them on the clothesline that we had hung. We talked about the clothesline that was used in the book The Hat by Jan Brett. We pretended that we were airing out "our woolens". And of course for a craft we made mittens... I drew the mitten shape and then each child printed their hand and then cut out the shape.
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Miss DawnI teach preschool in my home to 3 and 4 year olds. It's a wonderful adventure filled with lots of laughter and learning. Archives
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