Whilst walking to work in the snow yesterday morning I was
thinking about an activity I could do that would bring the outside weather
inside! I turned to my trusty shaving foam can and came up with Snowman
Squash!
Many mathematic concepts can be built into this idea such as
size for the different sized parts of the snowman, sequential counting,
understanding quantity (how many) and the idea of ‘0’.
As well as being great for early maths skills this activity
really made my class laugh and then when we were outside with the smattering
bit of snow leftover we made real snowmen and splatted them outside!
Here is the activity:
Resources:
Shower curtain/large fabric piece as this gets a bit messy
A3 black card/paper
Shaving foam
Black and orange food colouring
2 pipettes
Laminated numerals 0-5
Activity:
·
Lay out the shower curtain/fabric on the floor
·
Place the black paper/card in the middle of the
material
·
Say that today we are making snow men!
·
With the shaving by making one big ball and then
spraying a smaller ball on top. Make as
many snowmen as you are going to squash, probably a maximum of 5.
·
Use the pipettes and food colouring to add 2
eyes and 1 nose to each snowman.
·
Lay out the numerals in front of each snowman
that you have made.
·
Sing, to the tune of ’10 green bottles’, “5
white snowmen sitting in the garden, 5 white snowmen sitting in the garden, and
if one white snowman should accidentally FAAAAALLLL” at this point use your
hand to splat the 5th snowman, “there’ll be 4 white snowmen sitting
in the garden!”
·
Leave a pause before the number to give the
children a chance to count how many snowmen are remain.
·
Repeat this until all the snowmen have been
splatted!!
Alternatives:
A straw could be used to blow the snowmen down.
A fly squatter could be used to squash the snowmen.
Water could be used to melt the snowmen.
This gets pretty messy but it’s a great way to build maths skills and attention so have fun!
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