Snow, Snow, and More Snow!

What a great start to our week!

We've been reading about snow, so I decided we'd do an experiment.
We took a bar of Ivory soap and put it in the microwave for two minutes.

And look what happened!!!

Here we are in the morning working with the snowy concoction we made.
See later photos for details on our process.

In the afternoon we repeated the experiment.
We tore toilet paper into tiny pieces and put them into pans.

We each took pieces of the "exploded" Ivory soap and flaked it into tiny pieces
and added them to the toilet paper.

We worked really diligently on this process.

We added water to the soap and toilet paper and mixed it all together to make "snow".

We created art with the "snow"!  Look for our work to be posted soon!
They're still drying.

We loved our "snow".

If you haven't had a chance to check out our hallway bulletin board, do so.
It is AWESOME!!!

He's at the top, top, top!

Working on the Ocean Life puzzle.

Ocean Life puzzle completed!

To continue our work with snow and winter, we created more snow!
I used a product called Insta Snow.  It expands to 100 times its original size when you add water.

It was so much fun have it grow right in our hands!

It was cold.  It was mushy.

We could make it snow on the table.  We could squeeze it.

A playground rite of passage!!!