Winter Wonderland

Felice Cloyd
Highland Park Elementary, Bloomington, IN

Here is something that I do during the winter months. I usually try to have 4 stations.

• Station 1
• Snow Ball Fight.
• I set up 2 tumbling mats on their ends some distance across from each other to make snow forts and use yarn balls as snow balls.
• Of course, I remind the kids that they could not do this at school during recess and it was really all in fun. It's not really a fight.
  • I guess you could rename it "Snow Ball Fun."
    • I had to laugh one year when a kindergarten asked me what a snowball fight was. They had never heard of it before and then I remembered that we had not had a lot of snow in this child's life. So of course he didn't know what a snowball fight was!
• Station 2
• Sleigh Ride
• One student was the horse with a short rope(the reins) around his/her waist and another was a rider on a carpet square turned upside down (this seems to help it slide better).
• The rider holds the reins and says "giddy up" The horse pulls the rider across the gym and they switch places.
• Station 3:
• Ice Hockey
• Students try scoring using a hockey stick and puck through cones or a hockey goal while "skating" on cut up carpet pieces or using shoe boxes as skates.
• Station 4:
• Skiing
• Have students on small carpet pieces or use shoe boxes as skiis and wands as poles and make a zig zag course with cones to have them ski through the course.

For more information contact Felice.