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Winter activities for children. Anicé le Sotré : Hello ! My name is Anicé. and will help you to find the activities wich are very nice for your children !
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I'm working at a playschool for college and need an activity for winter, a creative one. I can't think of any and the only ones i type in are christmas ones and it's a bit early for christmas activities yet.
Any ideas? please help chucks.
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A non-arts and craftsy thing is a winter scavenger hunt. Make really really easy clues or just give them a list and let them hunt for candy canes or plastic ornaments or something like that. Christmasy stuff.

Well there's this one arts and crafts idea i did in gr. 4 and 5 and 6. You can use it for younger kids and simplify the instructions a bit. We used these pipe cleaners and bent them in any shape we wanted and we tied them to a string on a pencil above our own individual cups. Then we put the the pencil hanging above a plastic cup with a string attached to it and the pipe cleaner hanging down in this borax and water mix. You can probably find it on the internet. And some of us added food colouring to the mixture to make it look colourful. You can also find it probably on the internet.

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Bring dress up clothes for winter clothing, and then show them how to dress properly, and about ice safety as well.

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make snowflakes out of papaer... or create a 'winter wonderland' in the classroom.

I have 4 kids and they love it when we give them a big sheet of paper to lay on the floor along with crayons, markers (washable), scissors (kids), stickers, etc... and just let them use their imagination. There are no rules outside of the normal "only cut the paper, put stickers on the paper, etc..." it may help to give them all there own piece of paper or poster board just so they don't fight over space and such.

art and craft? numeracy/math? literacy/language? Something for a learning center? A small group activity? A large group activity? What age are the children in this playschool? Older preK? Toddler?

No offense meant...and you aren't the only one who does this...but this is a very broad topic! I'll assume art/craft. If it's different you can email me and I can see what I can do for you.

A snowman glyph is always nice. You create a series of questions that have 2 answers and they make their snowman according to their answers.

Colorful Snowflakes: Use eyedroppers and very thin paint to decorate coffee filters. When they are dry have the children cut snowflakes out of them.

Foot snowflake: Trace feet of each child and arrange in a snowflake pattern. I've seen some people who have used blue and white paper feet and added glitter.

Tactile Snowman: Provide many different types of material to create a snowman.

Mittens: we cut out cardstock mittens and decorated with puffy paint. Then we attach a pipecleaner to one of the mittens and provided foam beads with the letters of their name printed on them. They ordered the letters in their name onto the pipecleaner and then we helped them attach it to the other mitten.

Peppermint Playdough: Add candy molds, cookie cutters, roling pins, and four-inch pieces of waxed paper so children can wrap up their peppermint creations. Turn the center inot a candy cane factory. Make two batch of dough- one with and one without food coloring. Show children how to make candy canes by twisting strands of red and white dough together.
2 C. flour, 1 C. salt, 2 C. water, 2 tsp. peppermint extract, 2 Tbs. veg oil, 4 tsp. cream of tarter, red food coloring. Mix; cook and cool

Hidden Bear: I think this was Mailbox Preschool activity. On fingerpaint paper we lightly taped a white simple polar bear pattern. Then we fingerpainted on top of it with "cool" colors. Usually shades of blue. Then we splattered white paint from a toothbrush over top of the creation andremoved the taped on polar bear.

Frosty Evergreens: Have the children cut out a very simply evergreen pattern. Water down white paint. Use a teaspoon to put a few "puddles" of paint onto their evergreen tree. Provide straws to blow the paint over the tree to make a "snow effect". May wish to sprinkle with silver glitter. When dry, shake off the "extra".

play with it

Anything w/snowmen
Bears
Igloos
eskimos
Penguins
winter clothing
ice skating
sledding
The Mitten (the book)