This past Saturday, I planned and lead a Saturday "Winter Wonderland" program at Columbia Grove Apartments.
We made paper snowballs, read a book about Jack Frost, created our own rhyming winter poems, made a snowman outside, had hot chocolate with marshmallows, made our own gingerbread (graham cracker) houses and ran for our teams in a snowball relay, and took home our very own RIF books.
We had just had our first big snowfall in Virginia so the ground was covered and the timing of the theme was perfect.
I feel that the most successful activity of the day was creating our rhyming winter poems. Although the topic went over some of the children's heads, a couple of children really excelled, creating 3 and 4-verse long poems about wintertime in rhyme. In addition, we decorated our poems to look like illustrations from the Jack Frost book we had read earlier. If I had to make any changes, I might have thought of a more sustainable way to take home the gingerbread houses, as they were difficult to transport back to the individual apartments (Plastic Wrap?).
All in all, I had a great time serving with my team to put on this program, and look forward to Columbia Grove Saturdays in the future.
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