Fizzy Science with Snow

If you have snow where you live, there are all sorts of learning opportunities that can be had with it, from talking about why the big ball goes on the bottom when you build a snowman to observing how snow melts to adding food coloring “paint” to the snow to make art.

This is an idea I hadn’t seen before, which uses Alka-Seltzer tablets to make interesting things happen to snow in a baggie (you’ll just have to click over to Science Kiddo and try the experiment yourself to see what happens).

This is a great idea for anyone who wants to play with snow but not actually have to be outside to do it (raises hand).

[Photo: Science Kiddo.]

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When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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Millie Cox says
March 19, 2020 at 12:44 am
I am not a big fan of snow, its cold and wet and i always have puddles in my house afterwards, however this is just perfect! I know my kids are going to love it! With all the crazy I needed a fun craft to do with my kiddos. Thank you for sharing. I tried to make homemade bath bombs with them but they didn’t love it so much. Oh well. Any other suggestions?

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