Snow Unit

                                 By Clarice Fox-Hughes in WA

The Snow Speaks by Nancy White Carlstrom,
Snowflake Bentley by Jacueline Briggs Martin,
The New England Butt’ry Shelf Almanac by Mary Mason Campbell,
A Walk on a Snowy Night by Judy Denlton,
Cracked Corn & Snow Ice Cream by Nacy Willard

Snow Watch by Cheryl Archer

 ~includes experiments, activities and projects to do with snow.
Stranger in the Woods by Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick
~beautiful photographs of winter animals and a feeding program for them.

Chloe wrote a poem and copied in a mini book:

http://billybear4kids.com/TinyTitles/Snowman1.html

We did sketches of snowdrop flowers in soft pastels.

We copied a drawing from Cracked Corn.

Made a book about how snowflakes form. Looked a pictures Wilson Bentley made.

http://www.snowflakebentley.com/

We made paper snowflakes and hung them on a mirror in a circle. They look like a wreath.

http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=channel181245

http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dstredulinsky/home.html

We are planning on making soapy snowmen.

http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/season/feature/famf19wintercraft/famf19wintercraft3.html

Also a sugar-cube igloo:

http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/season/feature/famf19wintercraft/famf19wintercraft5.html

On the FIAR board, I saw the idea to make meat loaf in the shape of a snowman. You cover him with mashed potatoes and make snow balls around him out of mashed potatoes

Snowflake Board game for math:  http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/snowflake_board_game.htm

We also made ice catchers. I got the idea from:

http://eho.org/icesuncatchers.htm

We are writing Christmas thank-you notes on snowman stationary:

http://www.graphicgarden.com/

Aubern’e is making a winter survival kit.

Freeze a piece of black velvet and then pull it out when it snows. Let the snowflakes fall on the fabric and you can observe them for quite a while.

Make a snow lantern  by making snowballs and then piling them into a circle.  Continue to pile snowballs on top of each other until they make a small igloo.  Keep a spot open on the bottom (away from wind) to slide a candle in.  Light it.  The lantern glows like the moon at night.  (Forever Christmas by Tasha Tudor)

Would you look at THIS snowflake website?  Papersnowflakes.com has it all!

Sweet Baked Snowflakes (cookies)

1. Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Warm the tortillas (about 15 seconds) in the microwave.

2. Individually fold the tortillas in half once and then in half again, so that you end up with a shape that resembles a wedge of pie (it will be thick).

3. Using clean scissors, cut triangles, circles, or squares out of the edges, as if you were making paper snowflakes. Unfold the tortillas.

4. Lightly brush the tops of the snowflakes with canola or vegetable oil and place them on a cookie sheet slightly apart. Bake them until lightly browned and crisp (about 4 minutes). Sift confectioner's sugar on the snowflakes while warm. For an extra-sparkly effect, you can sprinkle on a bit of edible glitter. Makes 6.