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Check here monthly for activities you might want to do with your child.
Take a Winter Nature Walk
(This is a great activity for the month of January when we often feel cabin fever.)
Look deep into nature,
and then you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein -
Bundle up, put on your boots, and go out for a walk. Experience winter. Allow yourself to delight in it.
During the winter months, most of us adults rush to get from place of warmth to place of warmth, from indoors to indoors. We hurry from house to car to church, from taxi to store to taxi to home, from work to bus to home. We brace ourselves against the bitter sting of winter's cold and delight in holding a cup of warm beverage while putting our stockinged toes up to be toasted by a roaring fire.
Be a child for a day or an afternooon or an evening. Get out there with your little one(s) and feel winter.
Snow
*Notice your own footsteps as you walk through the snow. Pause to notice the smooth
sculpture of snow drifts. Make "smoke" rings as you exhale into the frosty air. Look
at the bare trees. Watch the birds that fly in winter. Keep an eye out for animal tracks.
*Listen for the sounds of winter-crackle of ice, the crunch of your own footsteps through
the snow.
*Smell the smoke coming from your neighbors' fireplaces as you walk down your street.
Crush up a handful of evergreen needles from a tree or bush and savor the aroma.
*Build a snowman.
*Taste the falling snowflakes.
*Stare into the night sky.
*And if you are really daring, lie down on your back and wave your arms and legs to make
your own snow angel!
Let your imagination soar! Can you see the sky filled with angels singing "glory to God in the highest?" Can you hear the sound of children's laughter as their sleds race down the hill? Can you envision the barren trees once again green? Can you hear a spring robin sing?
Through the eyes of a child, see the full potential of winter. It is perhaps with that same vision that our heavenly Father saw this world.
Extension Activity: A great book to read with your child is: Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs and Mary Azarian.
This book is a biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.
I have this book in my room if anyone would like to take it home for a few days.
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