Winter

Activity: Snowman Scramble

You will need–a Hat, scarf, gloves and over-sized jacket for each team.

Divide the players into teams. Try to make the teams as even as possible in ability.

Place a pile of “snowman clothes” opposite each team. At the signal, the players race to the pile of clothes  and pick one player as the snowman. The other players must then dress the snowman in all the articles of clothing. The snowman is not allowed to help at all! When the snowman is dressed he runs back to you. The team with the first completely dressed snowman ot ereach you wins.

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Activity:

The Mitten in the snow
(this can be done with the animals from Jan Brett’s book The Mitten or Farm animals or another category you may come up with)
The mitten in the snow
The mitten in the snow
Help us please so we don’t freeze
The mitten in the snow.

A________________ squeezes in,
A________________ squeezes in,
Help us please so we don’t freeze,
A mitten in the snow.
Continue with different animals. Depending on the age of the children you can do one animal at a time or continually adding on each new animal.
 

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