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Snow Day Activities

Polar Express Train!
Read The Polar Express (Hoopla; OverDrive) by Chris Van Allsburg and let your child’s imagination run wild. Make decorated tickets from paper. Build a snow train outside or use furniture and blankets and more to make a train inside. All aboard!

Host Your Own Winter Olympics
A snow obstacle course with snow mounds to climb over, snow tunnels to crawl through. A sled race. Distance and accuracy snowball throwing competitions – setup targets, such as a tree or a circle drawn in the snow. Snowball rolling contest – biggest, fastest. Snowman making contest – who can make a snowman fastest? Check out this great list for more ideas for snow day sports and games.

Snow Castles
Grab your beach toys – buckets, shovels, sandcastle tools – and bring them outside to build snow castles! Alternatively, bring inside a kiddie pool, or better yet, just use your bathtub and add some buckets of snow.

Snow Paint

Giant Ice Marbles

Snow Day Science

• • Learn more about what snow is in The Story of Snow: the Science of Winter’s Wonder by Mark Cassino and Curious About Snow by Gina Shaw. Both are available on OverDrive.
  • Catch and Examine Snow Flakes
  • Learn more about snowflakes in Studying Snowflakes by Joseph Otterman, available on Hoopla, and in Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin available on OverDrive.
  • Snow, Ice and Water: Are equal amounts of snow, liquid water and ice equal also equal amounts of H20?
  • Snow Volcano
  • Make a Snowball Launcher

Snow Day Treats

• • Snow Ice Cream
  • Hot Chocolate on a Stick
  • Quick & Easy Hot Chocolate

Snow Day Reads

• Iguanas in the Snow & Other Winter Poems / Iguanas en la nieve y otros poemas de invierno by Francisco X. Alarçon (OverDrive)
• Wait, Rest, Pause: Dormancy in Nature by Marcie Flinchum Atkins (OverDrive)
• Está nevando / It’s Snowing by Celeste Bishop (OverDrive)
• The Mitten by Jan Brett (OverDrive)
• Clifford’s First Snow Day by Norman Bridwell (OverDrive)
• Rabbit’s Snow Dance by Joseph Bruchac (OverDrive)
• Bad Kitty Does Not Like Snow by Nick Bruel (OverDrive)
• Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton (OverDrive)
• Ten Ways to Hear Snow by Cathy Camper (OverDrive)
• Biscuit’s Snow Day Race by Alyssa Satin Capucilli (OverDrive)
• There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow (OverDrive; Hoopla)
• Snow Day for a Mouse by Judy Cox (OverDrive)
• The Biggest, Best Snowman by Margery Cuyler (OverDrive)
• Snow Globe Wishes by Erin Dealy (Hoopla)
• Pete the Cat: Snow Daze by James Dean (OverDrive)
• Snow by P.D. Eastman (OverDrive)
• Explore My World: Snow Leopards by Jill Esbaum (OverDrive)
• Snow Clothes by Margo Gates (OverDrive)
• Snow Day by Margo Gates (OverDrive)f
• Snow Birds by Kristen Hall (Hoopla)
• Snowball Run by Lisa Harkrader (Hoopla)
• Lemonade in Winter: A Book About Two Kids Counting Money by Emily Jenkins (OverDrive)
• Freddy Ramos Stomps the Snow by Jacqueline Jules (OverDrive; Hoopla)
• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (OverDrive; Hoopla)
• Building a Snowman by Carolyn Kisloski (Hoopla)
• The Little Snowplow by Lora Koehler (OverDrive)
• Max & Mo Make a Snowman by Patricia Lakin (OverDrive)
• Snowy Owl Invasion by Sandra Markle (Hoopla)
• Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (OverDrive; Hoopla)
• Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner (OverDrive)
• The Sleepwalking Snowman by Andres Miedoso (OverDrive)
• The Biggest Snowball of All by Jane Belk Moncure (Hoopla)
• Dora’s Snowy Forest Adventure by Nickelodeon (OverDrive)
• First Snow by Bomi Park (Hoopla)
• A Snowy Day by Christine Platt (Hoopla)
• Snow Day by Candice Ransom (OverDrive)
• When the Snow is Deeper than My Boots are Tall by Jean Reidy (OverDrive)
• Snow Song by A.K. Riley (Hoopla)
• Snow by Cynthia Rylant (OverDrive)
• Best in Snow by April Pulley Sayre (OverDrive)
• Skippyjon Jones: Snow What by Judy Schachner (OverDrive)
• Splat the Cat: Blow, Snow, Blow by Rob Scotton (OverDrive)
• Nate the Great and the Snowy Trail by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (OverDrive)
• Snow Day by Margaret McNamara (OverDrive)
• Vampirina in the Snow by Anne Marie Pace (OverDrive)
• Snow Song by A.K. Riley (Hoopla)
• Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman by Francesca Simon (OverDrive; Hoopla)
• Ladybug Girl: Ready for Snow by David Soman (OverDrive)
• Ladybug Girl and the Big Snow by David Soman (OverDrive)
• Under the Snow by Melissa Stewart (Hoopla)
• The Snowflake Mistake by Lou Treleaven (Hoopla)
• White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt (Hoopla)
• First Snow by Nancy Viau (Hoopla)
• The Thing About Yetis by Vin Vogel (OverDrive)
• How to Catch a Snowman by Adam Wallace (Hoopla)

Snow Day Movies

• Caillou: The Snowman (Kanopy Kids)
• Curiosity Quest: Ice Sculpting (Kanopy Kids)
• Earth to Luna: Snow Day (Kanopy Kids)
• Emperors of the Ice (Hoopla)
• How to Catch a Yeti (Hoopla)
• Little Bear: The Snowball Fight | Winter Solstice | Snowbound (Kanopy Kids)
• Making a Friend (Hoopla)
• Making Stuff: Snow Park (Kanopy Kids)
• Masters of the Arctic Ice (Hoopla)
• Snow Day! (Hoopla)
• Snow Day for Mouse (Hoopla)
• Snowflake Bentley (OverDrive)
• The Snowman (Hoopla)
• The Snowman & The Snowdog (Hoopla)
• The Snowy Day (OverDrive; Hoopla; Kanopy Kids)
• Snow Queen (Hoopla)