Invite the preschoolers to make snowflake crafts. Students can fold and cut paper snowflakes to hang in the windows. Have students use glue to make snowflake outlines on paper then cover in glitter for sparkly snowflakes. Make wooden snowflake ornaments out of three craft sticks glued together in the center. Paint craft sticks white and decorate with glitter, sequins or stickers (see Resource 1).
Write songs about snowflakes -- such as "Snowflakes, Snowflakes," "Dance Like Snowflakes" and "Snowflakes Falling" -- on large sheets of chart paper (see Resource 2). Teach the preschoolers each song and allow them to decorate the charts with snowflake drawings. Sing songs during group time and encourage the preschoolers to get up and twirl around the room like snowflakes or spin slowly to the ground. Invite the students to use ribbons or scarves while they are dancing to mimic snowflakes gracefully falling to the ground.
Fill the reading area with snowflake-themed books. Include titles such as "The Tiny Snowflake" by Arthur Ginolfi," "Millions of Snowflakes" by Mary McKenna Siddals, "Snowflakes and Ice States" by Rebecca Fjelland Davis or "Snowflakes: A Pop-up Book" by Jennifer Preston Chushcoff. Include books about snow, snowmen and winter to round out a winter-themed classroom library. Invite the preschoolers to choose one book a day to read aloud during story time (see Resource 3).
Print out pictures of snowflakes or make paper cutouts of snowflakes in different colors, sizes and shapes of snowflake segments. Laminate the snowflakes for durability. Invite the preschoolers to sort snowflakes by color, size, shape or other attributes they choose. Allow the students to use the snowflakes in games such as "Hide and Seek the Snowflakes," where one student hides the snowflakes around the classroom while classmates seek out the snowflakes. Play "Pass the Snowflake," where preschoolers quickly pass around a snowflake while music is playing. When the music stops, the person holding the snowflake is out.