It has been another busy week in Crookfur Family Centre!In the garden we have been exploring the change of weather. We had lots of fun playing in the snow and investigating the ice. We decided to watch the process of water turning to ice by leaving some of our toys in a bucket of water and watching them freeze. We had to get tools to break them free! It was lots of fun 🙂

IC- ” It feels so hard. I can’t break it.”

Miss Queenan suggested that we could add some water to the ice which would make them melt.

AA- ” It is working, look.”

The children have also been busy this week making lots of Christmas decorations for the trees. They handled the knives safely when cutting the orange slices and then chose to decorate these with different colours of glitter after they dried in the oven. We were interested in how the smell of the oranges changed after they had dried!
We also made some homemade snow using a variety of ingredients. We loved exploring the different textures as we mixed them all together with our hands. Some children then rolled and manipulated the snow to make snowmen and some chose to make snow filled Christmas baubles for the tree. It was so much fun!