First we chose two of our favorite Usborne titles!! The first is one of our popular flashlight books, "Secrets of Winter." If you are not familiar with our Shine-A-Light books, the are such fun and unique books for your kids!! You simply read the story, shine a light through the pages, and an image will appear!! This particular version explores animals in winter!!
The next book we read is a "secret gem" of Usborne books. This is one I did not know anything about for the first year and a half with the company. Yet, it is now one I highly recommend. It is called, "Waiting for Winter" and is absolutely adorable. From the amazing illustrations, to the story, it is truly such a sweet book!! It is about a squirrel trying to stay awake to see snow. He is met by other friends who also try to stay awake to witness snow!
After we read both stories, we started on our craft, "snow dough". This was such an easy activity, and kept my girls entertained for over 30 minutes. That is always a winner in my book :)
The only ingredients you need include:
Flour
Baby Oil
Measuring Cup
Some bowl/Casserole dish/etc to contain the dough
To make the snow, we combined 4 cups of flour with 3/4 a cup of baby oil. I let the kids measure and pour themselves. Then I allowed the girls to mix by hand! The consistency of the dough is soft and moldable. It is fun to build with, cut and just play!! I eventually gave them some cookie cutters to use as well! For this purpose, as snow, we kept it white. Yet, with a little food coloring, you could make it any color you want!! Plus, you can keep this to use again, and again!!
Their attempt at a snowman!
Laney made a little mess! :)
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