We also enjoy reading the book Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh and using the colored snow to paint our own pictures. Next students have fun mixing the snow together and discovering what happens!Īfter the colors have been mixed, we experiment with adding more white snow to colors to see if it makes the colors lighter or darker. Then I have students predict what they think will happen when the colors are mixed together. This is a favorite of both myself and my students! We bring snow inside and add food coloring to it to form the primary colors. They pack snow around an ice cube to form a block, and build igloos with the blocks.Īfterwards students discuss and write about what worked well, what didn’t work well, and what they learned. They are given ice cubes of various sizes along with snow. Then the students get to try to construct their own igloos using what they learned. First we learn about igloos and watch an igloo building video.

Igloo Building ActivityĪnother favorite snow building activity is igloo building. Afterwards, students reflect on what they learned. We check on them throughout the day and record the results. Students decide where on the school grounds they think a snowman will last the longest and then build a snowman in that area. I have also done the snowman building activity outside. They construct a snowman in the allotted time period and place it in the area they feel it will last the longest. Each group is given the same amount of snow along with criteria they must follow. The challenge given is “How and where can we build a snowman that will last the longest?”.

Then we complete a snowman building STEM activity.

The Snow Inside Me by G.R. Stahl