Indoor Snowball Fight and a Florida Snowman

Since we live in Florida, most children here haven't experienced snow unless they have traveled to colder places.  We try to provide lots of "winter" experiences and one of the favorites is our indoor snowball fight.  

We start by crumpling white tissue paper. (I tried using toilet paper the first year I did this and the mess was horrible!) This is great for building up the small muscles! The children often complain that their hands are getting tired when they do this, but I tell them that the more paper they crumple, the more fun they will have.  

We bring the "snowballs" into the multipurpose room next to our classroom and then the fun begins! 

  When it is time to clean up, I bring out white garbage bags and they fill them to make snowballs.  Then we create our "Florida Snowman"!  Here are a few that we have made through the years. The best part is that they don't melt!