Homeschool Activities in the Snow

Here are a few more homeschool activities that you can do with your kids in the snow.

~Take your children snowshoeing. It is a lot of fun to hike in the winter with snowshoes! Take the opportunity to see how the woods have changed since the fall.

~Create a map in the snow in your yard. Use water tinted with food coloring in spray bottles to draw the outlines of the continents, for example. Or use cookie cutters in the shape of the United States
as stamps. Put a a paper towel on a cookie sheet and add a little watered down paint on it. Dip the cookie cutter into the paint and stamp the snow with it.

~Go cross country skiing. Skiing in itself is fun, but you can add another dimension to the experience by teaching a geometry lesson. Learn about rays & lines. Explore perpendicular, parallel, and intersecting lines.

~Do some experimenting with the snow. For example, melt some snow and test the pH of the water with a pH testing strip. Or melt the snow and refreeze it to observe the structure changes.

~You can also find some great snow learning activities at The Parenting Exchange.

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