Kids can start the play date and create their own pretty colored winter trees with mary making using white circles for snow and wintry color tissue papers.
Good for ages 3 and up.
Get the instructions here:
http://marymaking.blogspot.com/2009/11/colorful-abstract-winter-trees.html
Next, check out Carole Gerber's Book Winter Trees full of the subtle charms of trees in winter. On a walk
through a forest, a boy observes the branches, shapes, and various
barks. He and his dog make snow angels, watch animals quietly eating,
and tap a maple tree for syrup. In a simple poetic form, seven
trees are described: sugar maple, American beech, paper birch, yellow
poplar, bur oak, Eastern hemlock, and white spruce. Readers get a sense
of what they look like from a distance ("the egg shape of the maple
tree/the taller oval of the beech…" and up close ("the peeling bark of
paper birch/feeds hungry hares that eat their fill"). The
illustrations mix prints, watercolor, and collage, and are tweaked with
digital enhancement.
The book is also available on
Amazon
.
Next have the kids create their own tree snacks using chunks of cheese and grapes and a celery stick for the trunk.
If the weather is not too cold complete this cute winter scavenger hunt.
Get the template here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_QY0YTOrC2-vwC712v_T8wHHLHCMTydJ8n3w-yEk-Rk/pub
