let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Today I am posting about the three ways that we have made snow.  Hopefully everyone will be able to find one that would be suitable to use.

Cornflour and shaving cream 
To make this I just mixed cornflour and shaving cream together until I had a good consistency where it would hold together if molded.  Thank you to Growing a Jeweled rose for this fantastic activity. Out of all the snow ideas I think that this is the one that Little Boo liked the most.  It feels wonderful! I made a snowman that Little boo kept having get fun "melting" basically just squashing it!

Little Boo had great fun scooping and making snowballs 

Some footprints as she had to get her feet in! 

White sparkly play dough
Thanks for this idea from Frogs & snails & puppy dog tails I followed the recipe (apart from adding self raising flour accidently) on here and made up a tray so Little Boo could make up some snowmen!

Inside of nappies and water 

I saw this idea on About.com chemistry and thought it was a good idea to try.  However, I was at first worried as there was mention of the nappies being toxic? I did a bit of looking around on the internet and after a bit of research I was happy to continue Almost Unschoolers did this activity and there was no mention of the nappies being toxic?

All you need is the inside of a disposable nappy which you just cut out out of the nappy.   Then  add a bit of water until you get the right consistency.  The more water the more sloppy it is.  It is not recommended to use this activity with children who would be likely to eat this as it expands.

Moving the snow with the trucks

Small world play

No more odd socks!

I do not know about you but where do all our socks go? especially Little Boos, I have an ever increasing pile of odd socks, so set to work to think of something useful for them.  Whilst cooking the tea I had inspiration, lets make them into bean bags .  Little Boo just recently has started to really enjoy playing football and throwing the ball.  I also knew that I had a stash of popcorn kernels and various seeds which had gone out of date, they had been used previously for a pouring activity but I knew they would work to make the bean bags.

The pile of odd socks or ones that are too small. 

Turn the sock inside out . 

Fill with seeds of your choice 

squash the seed down then place an elastic band around, fold over the remaining top section of  sock

The completed bean bags they look really pretty.

We then played games with them in the garden

Daddy did some juggling 

Little Boo made up her own game trying to throw the bean bags into the peg basket 

We then had to try and knock the ball out the square with the bean bags. 

Then Little Boo and Daddy had a competition who could be first at throwing the bean bag at the letter Mommy calls out.  The letters used were those in Little Boos name as I want to get her familiar with these first.  

Then we had to throw the bean bags at the correct shape 

After all that fun it was time to pack away and count the bean bags back into the basket. 

Hope that you enjoy that activity.  Have you reused socks to make something?