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Dress a Snow Angel

This classic activity gets a personal touch when children add details that might turn their “angels” into something else entirely.

What you need:

Small, brightly colored items, such as beans, jewelry, and hair ribbons, and colorful fruits such as cranberries, strawberries, and orange slices.
A variety of clothing and accessories from your child’s dress-up collection. Possibilities are T-shirts, sports jerseys, soft hats, scarves, dresses, wigs, gloves, socks, and belts.
Don’t forget natural accessories! Piles of evergreen branches, dried flowers, sticks, and pebbles will do.
Water colored with food dye.
Squirt bottles, such as plastic condiment bottles.

What you do:

1. Place small items in wide bowls.

2. Sort clothing and accessories into boxes for footwear, headwear, super hero costumes, dresses, and so on. Make it easy for many little hands to find what they want.

3. Collect natural items and set them out in piles.

4. Prepare squirt bottles of several different colors of water.

5. Make sure kids are dressed warmly and that each has a soft patch of snow to lie down in, with room for swinging arms and legs to make an angel.

6. Walk around with a bottle of colored water and outline the “wings” and other details as the children wish. Then let the kids go wild, using the clothes, beads, and natural items to make their angels unique!

7. Take some pictures, the give the children bags to collect all the decorations to bring them inside.

Activity by Kimberly Capozzi