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I recorded this episode in January 2022, during a snow storm. Here is the transcript:
Not feeling like dressing your kid to play in the snow and dealing with cleaning up after? Then bring the snow inside. Put a lot of snow in plastic container, grab water color paints, or food dye with water, plastic toys. Cooking utensils, cups, or anything else to boost imagination. This episode is focusing on various actions, spatial concepts, the descriptor cold, and when questions.
1. Once you have your snow, you can have your child paint the snow to make a masterpiece. Talk about the different colors and the colors that are made when you mix colors.
2. Make little snowmen and snow huts. Point out the different actions that go into making these such as rolling, patting, stacking. Use short phrases or sentences to model correct sentence structure. I also making songs out of actions when I am doing different activities. When I play with playdough, I always sing "rolling rolling rolling the playdough rolling rolling rolling the playdough!". Just substitute snow! You can use this tune with any of the actions.
3.If you make a snow hut point out parts of the snow hut. If you make a snowman point out the parts of the snowman.
4. Use the toys for pretend play. Have toy animals play in the snow. Have vehicles drive throughout the snow. Have the toys go in, out, and through to focus on these concepts. Place toys next to each other or next to objects made in the snow to focus on next to. Talk about what the toys are doing in the snow and describe the actions, just like you can when building snowman.
5. With the kitchen utensils, you can use these as tools to pick up snow. You can work on the actions scooping, dumping, cutting, mixing, as you use them.
6. As you finish and the snow begins to melt, you can focus on "when" questions by pointing out "when does it snow?" And when does it melt? If your child has difficulty answering these questions, give them the choices. Typically, the understanding of when questions is developed by age 4.
The clean up for this activity should be super easy, if everything stays in the bin.
I hope I gave you some ideas. I created a Pinterest account so I can post visuals for my ideas: https://www.pinterest.com/languageathomepodcast/_saved/ If you are in an area that does not get snow, I pinned a fun recipe to create fake snow with baking soda and cheap hair conditioner on my Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/831054937485574938/
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