Snow Inside

Since it had not yet snowed yet I decided to make some snow for Little Man. When I taught school one of my students' favorite things to do was clean their desks with shaving cream. I gave Little Man some shaving cream and he had a great time spreading it around. We talked about how it is white like snow. Little did we know the snow was going to be here soon! : )

Snow Day!!

Today was the first snow of the season. Although Little Man was around last winter he does not know much about snow so we had to go out and play. It was a lot of fun riding around in the sled and also pulling his bear around in the sled.

Soap Mud Fun

I was inspired for this activity from The Imagination Tree. Although it seemed daring I figured it was doable. It is called Soap Mud. All you do is grate a bar of soap, tear up a half roll of toilet paper, and add a little water. Mix it all up and you have Soap Mud.

It was really fun to play in. I just put a sheet down on the floor and it was an easy clean up too.

And then the clean up...

Snowflake Painting

In Oopsey Daisy's W is for Winter Mommy School packet she has an activity called Snowflake Painting. This is such a cute idea but I felt like it was a little daring to do with little man. But we survived. : )
All you do is take painter's tape or masking tape and make a snowflake on a white piece of paper.

I then taped the paper to little man's tray.

Put a little blue washable finger paint on the paper and showed him how to spread it around. (Had to put the bink in because blue hands went straight for the mouth. )

I even gave him a sponge paint brush to try to show him how to paint a little.

It was a little messy but easy to clean up and we ended with a fridge worthy product!! (Aren't they all though?)

Snow in the Tub?? Shaving Cream

While going through Oopsey Daisy's W is for Winter Mommy School packet I found an activity where she suggests letting your child play with shaving cream as fake snow. I knew with little man this could be a huge mess. So I decided to put him in his bath tub with just his diaper on and put the shaving cream in the tub with him. He loved it!! He even wanted some of his toys to join in the fun.

When he was all done I just turned on the water and cleaned him up.

Winter Sensory Box

Little man loves new textures so when I saw the Winter Sensory Box in the W is for Winter Mommy School packet from Oopsey Daisy I knew that was right up his alley. It was a very easy activity and something that could entertain little man while I worked on dinner. All I did was find white items around the house. In our Winter Sensory Box I included silver wrapping ribbon, fake Christmas decoration snow, cotton balls, tissue paper, and Kleenex.

I introduced each of them to little man and we talked about the color and the texture he was feeling. I then put him in the bin with all the items and he was free to explore.

Winter Words

Continuing on our journey through W is for Winter from Oopsey Daisy we did a texture activity called Winter Words. I used glue and wrote out winter words and sprinkled sugar on the glue. Before giving them to little man I read the word to him and spelled it out while pointing to the letters. I obviously know little man cannot read these words but he loves the face to face interaction.

I gave him the words and then tried to help him draw his finger over the words and spelled them out again. He liked to feel the texture and eventually crinkle up the paper. : )

 

I then put a little bit of sugar on little man's tray and let him play with the "snow". We talked about the texture. It was fun until he decided to put his sugar covered hands in his mouth. ha! I do want this child to sleep. So we had even more fun by taking a bath in the sink (one of his favorite things!) 

White Playdough

To continue through the W is for Winter Mommy School Packet from Oopsey Daisy little man played with white Play-Doh as a sensory activity. I talked to him about the color of the Play-Doh and how the Play-Doh feels in his hands. We even made a little snowman out of the Play-Doh. I also gave him some cookie cutters and showed him how to flatten out the Play-Doh to make shapes.

P.S. A pacifier was required to keep him from putting the Play-Doh in his mouth. : )

Feely Letter

After discovering the incredible blog, Oopsey Daisy, I HAD to start doing some of her things with little man. While most of her things are aimed at children that are much older than little man I have tried to find things that I can still do with him now. The first things I found on her blog is Mommy School which is a place where she has made some incredible themed units for her son.

The first one I decided to take on was W is for Winter. In this unit she has W activities, winter activities, activities for the number two, and white activities.

The activity we started with was Feely Letter. I printed off the W is for Winter printable from the W is for Winter Mommy School packet. I then tore wax paper and glued it inside the W.

When I gave it to little man I talked to him about what he was feeling. We then talked about the letter W and what words start with W. We also talked about winter and things we can do in winter.

Bringing Winter Inside

We just recently got a good amount of snow and little man has never seen snow before. It was still pretty cold outside so I decided to bring the snow inside for him to explore.

I just scooped up a bucket of snow and put the bucket on a towel.

I then put little man down by the bucket. I even added in some cookies cutters for him to put in the snow.

He was a little hesitant at first but he eventually would grab a snowball out of my hand for a few seconds. This was a great way to introduce snow to him.