Snow Bucket

It’s no secret that preschoolers love Chantelle.  That’s show-and-tell for the uninitiated.  My daughters love to take things to preschool with them.  Anything will do.  If they forget to take something to school, then we look for things as we walk there.  Two weeks ago Little Lotti said to me as she had her eyes fixed on the grass ahead; “you look out for dog poo Mum, I’ll look out for flowers.” 
Typical.  
Winter started recently in the southern hemisphere, so the girls and I got to discussing what can happen (in other parts of the world) when it gets really cold; things like snow.  To explore the idea further we created a snow-bucket and put together things that we thought looked like snow drifts, snow balls and snowflakes.  Given they’ve never seen the real thing, anything white essentially sufficed. 
The girls enjoyed the experience, I was happy to share a learning experience that kept the television off, and Chantelle, the teachers and the rest of the children at school were apparently sufficiently impressed.  Next trip to the craft store and I might just buy myself a whole stack of foam-balls so we can have a snow ball fight... ahh... winter... what fun!