Out in winter weather

I don’t have any great ideas, but we recently had 3 feet here too. A lot of it has since melted. My kids were the same way. At first they thought it would be fun to have so much snow, until they realized they couldn’t move too well. 🙂 The ended up making some trails in the snow and digging tunnels and forts in the snowpiles in front of our house. We live on a dead-end so the snow plow pushes all the snow here. They also managed to carve a trail with their sleds so that it was like a luge. Before the blizzard hit, they had also made a sort of lean-to fort with some small logs from trees we had cut down so they have a shelter to hang out in.

Spring will be here soon! 🙂

Kristen

Oh, I feel your pain.    We have a lot of snow here, too.  We all went out to shovel the driveway today (even though we own a snowblower) just to get outside.  The neighbor came over to help and I said, “oh, no need, we’re doing it for fun.”  But, I think he thought I was a little crazy.

Sledding, building snowmen and forts, go for a walk (our road is too icy right now for that).

I’m not really sure how to study nature in this weather, though.  It seems you really need to move around to keep warm so sitting and watching something is a little unrealistic. 

We are having a similar problem.  My kids were enjoying digging tunnels and slide paths in the snow until it got warm enough to start to melt.  Then it froze solid again, so the whole yard is just one block of ice.  No more digging. We’ve been ice skating and plan to go again next week, but other than that, we haven’t been out much.

We’ve been focusing on indoor nature study.  We rooted vegetable tops in water and then planted them.  Along with carrots and parsnip, we used a vegetable called a ‘lo bok’ that is now a large plant (maybe 18 inches) and is starting to flower.  We have an avocado pit and some grapefruit seed for our next project.  Oh, and the pineapple top just molded.  We’ll have to try that one again.  We are also starting to study up and plan our garden so that if spring ever comes, we’ll be ready!  Temps are supposed to be right at the freezing mark next week, so there is hope.  Right?

Joanne

Jawgee…yes, spring is coming!

Canoearoo, I’m so excited about buidling a quiznee.  I’ve never heard of them.  The girls have done small forts before, but this afternoon we are going to build a quiznee.  We watched a youtube video and it looks pretty easy to build.