Art
Snow sculptures – Whitdale Zoo Challenge!
Once you’re bored of building snowmen and igloos, how about you build a snow animal! Take a photograph and upload it to the blog to share your good work.
Let’s see if we can build a Whitdale Snow Zoo.
Paper Snowflakes
Resources: Paper, scissors, white tempera paint, dish detergent, toothpicks and marshmallows.
Fold a piece of white paper several times, then make a variety of cutouts along the folds. Open up the piece of paper and it’s a snowflake!
Snow Scene in a Jar
Resources: Small empty jar ((like a baby food jar), clear glue, small plastic toy animal, white stones, big pieces of gravel, a plastic tree etc, glitter and water.
Ask an adult to help you to glue the rocks and the animal to the bottom of jar. Fill the jar with water and spoon in some glitter. Finally use some glue to stick the lid onto the jar.
Shake to make it snow!
Make a model Sleigh
Use cardboard boxes and other household junk to make a model sleigh for your favourite toy/teddy. Make sure it has secure sides, some reins and a nice comfortable seat!
Window Snowflakes
Ask an adult if you are allowed to decorate your windows with painted snowflakes. Use white tempera paint with a squirt of washing up liquid (to make it easier to wash off the windows later). Using a paint brush or the corner of a sponge make snowflake designs.
Online Snowflake Designer
Click the linkbelow to make your own online snowflake!
http://ww2.unime.it/weblab/mirror/ExplrSci/dswmedia/snwflak6-adv.htm
Cocktail Stick Snowflakes
Arrange some cocktail sticks on some dark coloured paperin Glue and arrange on black or dark blue paper. you could paint them white if desired.
Toilet paper sculptures
Resources: White toilet paper and water.
Wet some toilet tissue, scrunch it into some winter shapes and then let it dry.
Can you make a snowman, some mountains or polar bear?
Tin Foil sculptures
Resources: Tin foil
With permission, use tin foil to create Winter animals.
Newspaper sculptures
Resources: Old newspapers, sellotape and paint.
Scrunch up and shape some old newspaper then use sellotape to secure the desired shape. Decorate with some paint or coloured paper.
Can you make a robin?
Ripped paper pictures
Resources: Old Magazines
Look through some old magazines and rip out all the hot colour pictures (red, orange, yellow) and all the cold colour pictures (blue, green, purple).
Make an indoor igloo
With permission, use sheets, chairs or duvets to make a den to hide in!
Drama
Put on a pantomime with your friends.
Write a script, add in some songs, make up a dance and perform it in front of an audience.
Winter Pictionary
Resources: Black board and chalk or White board and dry erase markers, slips of paper with different winter items/objects on each one [example: mittens, coat, candy cane, snowflake, etc…
How To Play: Divide any players into teams. The first player up draws a slip of paper from a box and reads it silently. The player must then draw clues as to what was on their paper and by so doing get their team to say what it is. If the playing team guesses correctly, before the timer runs out, they get two points.
If the playing team cannot guess correctly, before the timer runs out, the opposing team may take one guess. If the opposing team guesses correctly they get a point and the playing team loses a point. Most points wins.
Winter Olympic Charades Game
Write down a selection of Winter Olympic Charades (list below) on small pieces of paper. Fold the paper and put them in a hat. One player picks a charade from the hat and acts out the sport for other players to guess what it is. No talking, no spelling or no mouthing the words.
Olympic charades ideas:
Speed skating, Mens figure skating, Wheelchair curling, Womens hockey, Pairs skating, Snowboard slalom, Mogul skiing, Aerial skeeing, Biathalon, Curling, Paralympic alpine skiing, Award ceremonies, Giant slalom, Closing ceremonies, Winners podium, Ice dancing, Down hill skiing, Slalom skiing, Snowboard half pipe, Skeleton, Bobsleigh, Paralympics cross country skiing, Parade of nations, Ice sledge hockey
Winter dress up box
Can you find clothing in your wardrobe to dress up as a famous winter character?
Music
Winter Songs
Follow the link below and enjoy some home Karaoke.
http://www.singup.org/songbank/song-bank/song-detail/view/395-winter-wonderland/
Make your own instruments
Click the link below to see how to make your own band!
http://unplugyourkids.com/2009/01/14/easy-homemade-musical-instruments/
Songwriting
Can you re-write the words to one of your favourite songs to include some of your thoughts, feelings and experiences of winter.
Happy feet dance
Watch the dance tutorial by clicking the link below. Can you learn Mumble’s dance?
