Snowman

Great book to go along with this activity: How to Build a Snowman (Little Scholastic)


Materials: White posterboard or construction paper, various colors of construction paper, glue, crayons, markers, and various collage materials (buttons, pom poms, etc)

Directions: Cut 3 circles out of posterboard or construction paper (I used various sized plates to make my circles). I allowed my son to color the body portions of the snowman with crayons, since he wouldn't be able to do any of the gluing and decorating. But older children can do all the decorating themselves with supervision. Construct the 3 circles to make a snowman and use your other materials to decorate and "dress" him. Hang at your child's eye level.

Lookybook

For those of you who read parenting magazine, you may have already been given a heads up on this site. For those that don't: check out Lookybook. This great site gives you access to online stories to read to your children. Wonderful for those days you can't get outside! Registration is free and you can search their titles by subject, genre and author. Happy online reading!

Welcome Winter (Little Scholastic)

Welcome Winter (Little Scholastic) is the book I selected for my son to go with this theme. It's a book we own (which is always a plus!) and it's "interactive" with tons of spots for him to touch so it holds his interest very well. I definitely recommend any of the little scholastic books for the under 2 crowd!

Welcome Winter at Amazon.com