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Let It Snow! Decorate With Snowflakes! How does a snowflake form? Snow crystals form in clouds when the temperature is below the freezing point. They are created when water droplets freeze on tiny ice particles. When an ice crystal drops through a cloud, it bumps and hits other crystals which causes each snowflake to form into a unique complex design. There are no two snowflakes that are exactly alike. Decorating with snowflakes is a fun way to make the winter season and holiday times special. Follow the step by step directions to create your very own snowflakes. Try making several to hang and a few to share with your family and friends. What you will need: Paper towel tube, ruler, scissors, glue, ribbon. To decorate: Glitter, paint, pipe cleaners, buttons or beads.
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I Should Not Bite My Nails! Have you ever thought about your nails and the job they do? The hard surface of your nails helps to protect your fingers and your toes plus, your fingernails make it easy to scratch an itch or pick something up. You had fingernails and toenails before you were even born. Where do nails come from? Nails start in the nail root that’s hidden under the cuticle. When the cells at the root of the nail grow, the new nail cells push out the old nail cells. These old cells flatten and harden. The newly formed nail then slides along the nail bed, (the flat surface under your nails). The nail bed sits on top of tiny blood vessels that feed it and give your nails their pink color. They also grow slowly - about one tenth of an inch each month, so it takes about three to six months to completely replace a nail! Where the nail meets your skin is the cuticle. Cuticles help to protect your new nail as it grows
out from the nail root. The lunula (the Latin word for “moon� is the pale half circle just above the cuticle. Most kids need an adult to help you trim your fingernails and toenails. For this you use a nail clipper or a pair of nail scissors. To smooth the jagged edges, you use a nail file or emery board that works like sandpaper. Fingernails need to be trimmed straight across and slightly rounded at the top. Well trimmed nails can keep you from biting or picking at them. Do you bite your nails? That is not a healthy habit. A lot of kids do it because they are anxious or nervous. By biting the nails, you are breaking the skin and possibly bringing germs into these openings in your skin. In fact, some people bite their nails and cuticles down so far - they bleed! That can definitely lead to an infection. There are also germs under your fingernails. When you bite them, these germs can go into your mouth. Think about where your hands have been all day like touching your shoes, touching the floor, etc. You don’t want those germs getting into your mouth! If you want to stop bit-
ing your nails, hooray!! You may not even realize that you are biting them! Ask your family or friends to tell you if they notice you biting your nails. If you are strong willed and can stop just by concentrating on not doing it - you are a lucky one. If you find that you can’t stop this habit, ask your parent to buy a special colorless nail polish that makes your nails taste awful! That way you will quit biting them when they taste badly. It may also help you to polish your nails and keep them looking good as an incentive to quit.
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Backyard Snow Activities Are Great Exercise! Did you know that you exercise everyday and not even know it? Being active counts as exercise! So this winter, as the snow is falling, don’t just sit in front of the television or computer, bundle up WARM and go outside! Make sure you wear gloves or mittens, coats, warm socks, snowpants, boots and whatever else keeps you dry and warm. In all outside activities, make sure you take breaks and come in to warm up and have something to drink. BUILD AN IGLOO! You can make your own playhouse with snow! Get an old shoebox or plastic box shaped like one. Fill it with packing snow, pat it down and turn it upside down where you want it to be! When the snow comes out, it will look like a building brick. Keep adding them and stacking until you have the shape you want. You can even make snow furniture this way! MAKE A SNOW ANGEL! You can do this by laying down on your back in the snow and moving your legs and arms in and out. Then stand up and take a look at the snow! You’ve made a snow angel! BUILD A SNOWMAN! Building a snowman is a great way to use your muscles and help build your body strength as well as be creative! There are many ways to build a snowman. Some kids build their snowman by making a big mound of snow and shaping it. A favorite way is to make it out of balls! Let’s talk about that way... When there are a few inches of snow on the ground, test the snow and see it it’s packing snow. What that means is - see if the snow will clump together. The
snow has to pack to make the snowman. If it packs, make a ball out of the snow and place it on the ground in front of you. Start rolling it away from you and pack it occasionally with your hands. Keep doing this until it is the size you want for the bottom of the snowman’s body. The bottom should be the largest ball of snow. Do this for the mid-section of the snowman and it’s head. Pack some extra snow in between the balls so the snowman will stick together. Each section should get smaller. You can also build your snowman with two sections - one for the body and one for the head! After your snowman is assembled, it’s time to get creative! The snowman needs a face! You can use coal, rocks, buttons or anything dark and round for the eyes. A stick would make a good mouth and a carrot would make a fine nose. Cover its head with an old knit hat or any old hat. You can spruce him up with a scarf or sunglasses. If you decide you want your snowman to have arms - use sticks. Push the sticks into the side of the middle section and you can even hang old mittens on the ends for the hands! THE BIGGEST SNOWBALL GAME Here’s a fun game - split your friends up into two teams or more. See which team can roll the biggest snowball. The game ends when the teams can no longer push the snowballs and roll them any further. FOOTPRINT TAG Play tag as you normally would, but stepping only in other’s footprints! SNOWMAN HAT TRICK Build a plump snowman in the yard. Make a game of taking turns trying to land a hat on his head by throwing it Frisbee style from 10 feet away! First person to land three wins!
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Snowflakes Don’t you love to watch the snow fall during the winter months? Have you ever stuck out your tongue and let a snowflake drop on it? Most kids have done this while playing out of doors. What is a snowflake? A snowflake starts out with a tiny speck of dust or dirt that is carried up into the atmosphere by the wind. The ice collects around this speck and a snow crystal is formed. As the tiny snow crystals grow, they become heavy which causes them to fall towards the Earth. The snow crystals then bump into each other and combine to form snowflakes. Every snowflake is made up of many different snow crystals that have joined together as they go through the clouds. Snowflakes usually have six sides. It has been said that no two snowflakes are identical. But - each snowflake is made up from two to two hundred snow crystals! The shape that a snow crystal will take depends on the temperature in the clouds at the time it is formed. The cloud temperature must be below the freezing point. As the temperature and humidity varies, so do the shapes of the snow crystals. As they tumble towards Earth, they spin like a top so, it makes them symmetrical. If they fall sideways, they may end up lopsided. There are billions of snowflakes that fall with every snow storm! Common Types of Snow Crystals • Stellar Plates - These are thin, plate like crystals with six arms that form a star-like shape. • Stellar Dendrites - Plate like crystals that have tree like branches and side branches. • Needles - These snow crystals are slender and column like. • Rimed - Rime, which are frozen water drops in clouds sometimes collect on the snowflakes. When they cover heavily, the snowflakes can look like a tiny snowball! • Fern-like Stellar Dendrites - These crystals are similar to the Stellar Dendrites, but they have so many branches they look like a fern plant! These are usually the larger snowflakes.’ Snowflake Facts • The world’s largest snowflake to date found was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. This snowflake occurred at Fort Keogh, Montana on January 28, 1887. • The average snowflake falls at a speed of 3.1 miles per hour. • When combined, windblown dirt and snow make what is called snirt. • Stampede Pass, Washington averages 430 inches of snow per year. No wonder it’s known as the snow capital of the United States!
Grow A Snowflake In A Jar!
Do NOT do this experiment without the aid of a parent or responsible adult. You will need: • String • Wide mouth pint jar • White pipe Cleaners • Pencil • Blue Food Coloring • Boiling Water (with adult help only) • Borax (at grocery stores in the laundry soap section as 20 Mule Team Borax Laundry Booster. Do NOT use Boraxo soap) Cut a white pipe cleaner into 3 equal sections. Twist the sections together in the center so that you have an even “six-sidedâ€? star shape. Attach string along the outer edges of the pipe cleaners to form a snowflake pattern. Attach a piece of string to the top of one of the pipe cleaners and tie the other end to a pencil (this is to hang it from). Fill a wide-mouthed jar with boiling water. Mix Borax into the water one tablespoon at a time. Use 3 tablespoons of Borax per cup of water. Stir until dissolved. Don’t worry if there is a little powder settling on the bottom of the jar. Add a little blue food coloring now to give the snowflake a blue color. Insert your pipe cleaner snowflake into the jar so that the pencil is resting on the lip of the jar and the snowflake is freely suspended in the Borax solution. Wait over-night and by morning the snowflake will be covered with shiny crystals. You can hang it in the window as a suncatcher or use it as a decoration!
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Practice Your Skills! Write A plus (+) or a minus (-) sign in the circle to make the number sentence true.
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Reindeer! The reindeer is a medium sized member of the Cervodae (deer) family. Reindeer came to North America in the early 1900’s from Siberia and Norway. Recently, they have been raised on farms in Canada and the United States. Some of the benefits of raising reindeer include the following: They can be raised on the same farm as other deer and livestock. Reindeer are low maintenance, easy handling and relatively disease free animals. They do well in areas that have cold winters and marginal land. Costs for handling facilities and equipment are often lower. But a really unique part of raising reindeer is the demand for them in commercials, parades and other promotional events. They can be trained to pull sleighs and can be ridden. Reindeer can also generate products such as meat, milk, robes, hides and the antlers they shed. Reindeer are about 4 feet tall at the shoulder and 6 feet long. The adult females weigh about 162-187 pounds while the males are 200-220 pounds on the average. Unlike most other types of deer, both bulls (males) and cows (females) have antlers. Even the calves (babies) produce antlers. The antlers are shed each year and regrow. Sometimes the antlers are called “racks.” Reindeer have very wide hooves which help them move through snow and tundra, a broad muzzle (nose), and thick brown fur. Their thick fur traps air which insulates the reindeer from the cold and help the reindeer float in water. They are strong swimmers and runners. COLOR Calves are born beME! tween May and June and grow quickly. They are
around 14 pounds when they are born. They can stand and walk within minutes of their birth. They are also born with teeth so they can start eating right away. Calves do, however, drink milk from their mothers. The reindeer are herbivores (plant eaters) and they spend much of the day eating. Reindeer travel in herds in the wild. They generally roam on pasture grounds in a farm setting. Reindeer are also associated with Santa Claus! Santa’s sleigh is said to be pulled by flying reindeer! These were first named in the 1823 poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas, where they are called Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Dunder and Blixem. Dunder was later changed to Donder and in other written works changed to Donner, and Blixem was later changed to Blitzen.
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Coloring Corner Wishing You The Happiest of Holidays!
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Cookin’ Fun Tree Pops
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3 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup butter, softened 2 cups sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Wooden craft sticks 2 or 3 tubes green icing M&M's Minis Combine the flour, baking soda and salt in a medium sized bowl. In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar, then stir in the eggs and vanilla extract. Add the flour mixture, one third at a time mixing well after each addition. Gather the dough into a ball, wrap it in plastic and chill for at least 2 hours. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Roll the dough into 1/4 inch thickness between sheets of waxed paper. Remove the top sheet. Use a butter knife to cut out 3 1/4 inch tall triangles or use a christmas tree cookie cutter. Place the trees on a lightly greased cookie sheet 1 inch apart. Insert a craft stick three quarters of the way under each cookie. Bake for about 10 minutes or until the cookie edges turn light brown. Let the cookies cool for a few minutes on the pan after you remove it from the oven. Then transfer them to a rack to cool completely. Now decorate the tree pops with piped on icing and candy lights out of M&M’s Minis.
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