Ice, Ice Baby...

 

 

This week along with weather we've been talking about climates and how we are all adapted and suited for where we live. Today we switched up our sensory table for a snowy, icy, arctic one. I wasn't sure how Evie would like this one because while she loves water play she does NOT like to be sticky or slimy. The snow (which is fake snow made from powder) isn't cold at all but it gets sort of gel like when you mix the two. 

She had fun balancing the animals on the ice and digging them into the snow for awhile and then she cautiously asked if she could mix the snow and water. When I told her of course she can she was ecstatic. She found that adding snow to water caused the snow to "melt" and adding the water to the snow melted it down into gelatinous pools of blue "ice".  After lunchtime we took this one outside and she played with it for HOURS. Tossing the snow, making "food" out of the mixed snow and ice and pretending her Chelsea doll was on a trip to Antarctica (though she is woefully underdressed for the adventure😂). HUGE win for this bin.

For our STEM today we made some rain clouds in a jar. We filled it with water, added a shaving cream cloud, and then used a dropper to fill the cloud with blue water until it dripped out the bottom and made rain. Evie also learned about water cycles today. She already knows that it rains because the clouds get too full of water but today she learned how those clouds form and why it's so important for it to rain.

 

Of course what's sidewalk science without a little mess? She enjoyed playing in her rain clouds when we finished up making them too. ;)

It was a fun and mess filled day! Fall weather can't seem to make up it's mind so we took full advantage of the break in the rain and cold. :) One more day of Weather Week and then it's onto the next!