Activity Ideas:
But It’s Light Out!
With your child, look at a map of Northern Canada. Find some locations where daylight lasts nearly 24
hours in the summer. Ask your child to imagine living in a place where the sun stayed out until very late
at night. Together, illustrate a humorous story about a young child who doesn’t want to go to bed until it
is dark outside. Include the solutions that the family comes up with to help the youngster go to sleep.

Create a Frosty Winter Scene
Use crayons to draw your favorite winter activity with friends.  Make sure you press hard with the crayons
to give a dark, rich colour. Then paint over the crayon with white paint. The paint won't stick to the
crayons. Sprinkle with clear glitter while paint is still wet.

Screaming Snowball
Squeeze a penny through the neck of a white balloon that is not inflated, so it rests in the balloon. Now
inflate the balloon and tie it off. Swirl the balloon so the penny rolls along the inside edge. Listen closely
and you'll hear a slight hum. Now put a hex nut into a different balloon. Swirl it around... it screams!

Why? When the penny rolls around the balloon, it rubs against the balloon a little, stretching it a little,
making it vibrate a little. This makes a little noise. When the hex nut rolls around, it makes the balloon
vibrate a lot, making a loud noise!

Snowflakes
Use wax paper, glue, q-tips, and glitter.  Put a quarter size dab of glue on wax paper and then give the
child 8 q-tips to lay in the glue (ends that is) and then let the child sprinkle with glue and then let dry for a
day. Then peel off the wax paper and hang on the window or hang from the ceiling.

Hot and Cold Activity
Materials: Magazines, scissors, glue, poster board and markers.
Description: After a few hands-on activities about hot and cold, have an assortment of magazines
available and cut out pictures of things that are hot or cold. Have each child glue his pictures on the
appropriate poster (hot or cold) that you have already prepared and displayed on a wall or easel. Make
sure the magazines have lots of food items and clothing items. Store catalogs and grocery store flyers
work great.

Scurry Squirrel
Sung to: "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
Scurry squirrels and don't be slow.
Winters coming, don't you know?
Scamper, scamper all around.
Bury treasure in the ground.
Scurry Squirrels and don't be slow.
Winters coming, don't you know?

Feed the Birds
Sung to: "Row, row, row your boat"
Feed, feed, feed the birds
In the wintertime.
When the days are dark and cold,
Food is hard to find.
Feed, feed, feed the birds
Till the spring has come.
Scatter birdseed on the snow.
Feeding birds is fun!

The Blubber Glove Experiment
Materials: 4 Zip lock Baggies, A Bucket of very icy cold water,Vegetable shortening
Description: Place about 1 cup of shortening in the bottom of a baggie. Turn another baggie inside out
and place it inside of the baggie containing shortening. Zip the two baggies together, sealing shortening
between layers of baggies. Seal two other baggies together in the same manner (But do not place
anything between the layers - just the two baggies.) Now have the children slip a shortening filled baggie
on one hand and a empty baggie on the other. Then the children put their hands into the icy cold water
and see how the shortening filled baggie insulates their hand from the cold. Explain that this is much like
the way the blubber insulates the penguins, whales, and seals from their icy cold waters in the Antarctic.

Other Ideas:
Cut the bulletin board border strips themselves by cutting on a straight line that you've drawn about 2
1/2" from the edge of blue construction paper. Then have them do white, polka-dot, Q-tip painting on
their strips for a snow storm. What a neat border!
Winter DAZE
c. Marcia Arpin
www.alltheDAZE.com
established July, 1,
2002
LIVE AND ACT IN A SPIRIT OF LOVE

The place to begin to improve the world is
in your own heart, head and hands. To get
along with others, love them without forcing
your love upon them. Imposing your beliefs
on people will not bring you peace. Have
concern for others, respect their rights and
freedoms, and let them be themselves.  Do
this and you will enjoy peace.

Having consideration for others is the basis
of a good life.  Most people are not against
you, they are merely for themselves.  Let
differing ideas clash, but not those of the
heart. Peace comes to you when you live
and act in a spirit of love.
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