While I have been taking a bit of a blog break - or maybe a really, reeeeaaallly long one - I found I had some free time on my hands for a few evenings and thought it might be fun to jump back on for another post. However, I'll be keeping the wording to a minimum (unless you take the old saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" literally).
This year, our 100 day celebration came during a bit of a rough patch of illness for us. We'd been cooped up, and it just seemed like a bit of excitement was in order...
We'd already completed a winter themed 100th day at least 2-3 years ago. However, my kids seemed to be really lamenting the lack of snow this year, so I felt it might be time to have a "snow day" once more.
Cover each activity with a snowflake once completed!
Snowman necklace with 100 white beads!
Toss the "snowball" in a cup and add the numbers. First child to reach or cross over 100 wins!
This was a more time consuming activity - consider yourselves warned if you attempt this at home. I had each child lie down in a snowball fight pose (except for the youngest who stood against the wall) and traced around him/her. They then painted themselves and broke open a bag of 100 cotton balls (snowballs) which they glued to the mural. We actually ended up opening two bags because one just wasn't enough!
We counted out 100 cotton swabs and the kids used them to make
snowflakes - even our toddler was able to participate in this one with a
bit of help.
Snack time! We counted out 100 items (usually in groups of ten such as 10 pretzels, 10 yogurt covered cranberries, 10 mini rice cakes, etc.) and created our own snow mix for munching.
It is hard to tell, but these melted snowman pictures are puffy and came out so cute! We made the puffy paint by mixing roughly equivalent amounts of white glue and shaving cream. It can be a lot of fun as long as the children are old enough to realize it should not be eaten (or you are sitting right next to your toddler).
Spelling practice - the kids practiced spelling snow/winter words in whipped cream. Yes, our toddler enjoyed participating in this one as well! The whipping cream was on top of brown (unbleached?) wax paper. This was definitely a finger-licking activity!
Note: Make sure you do this one AFTER the shaving cream painting above to avoid confusion regarding what can be eaten. If you do them in reverse order, you run the risk of a toddler assuming that if you can eat one puffy whiteness first, the other is fair game as well.
Happy homeschooling! :)
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