Outdoor Play Party - Guest post from Iceland

Delighted to have Unnur, my colleague from Leikskólinn Stekkjarás in Iceland guest posting for this OPP. Here she shares how the children in her school enjoyed the first big snow fall for this year earlier this week.

It was easy to get everyone out this morning, on the first day of proper snowfall with us this winter, we did get a day in early October but like I said that was just for a day. The 

kids came up with a lot of ideas of what to do. Some set up a business and sold some ice cream of course.

Ice cream shop in the making

Some made snow houses with some help of tyres and planks and some made a den with the trees we have in the garden.

Some made dens & houses as the snow fell.

One of the children had turned up late this morning and brought with it a thoturass or bum board. With only one to play with all the children got in line so everyone could have a go.

When there is only one bumboard everyone had to wait & take turns.

In the afternoon when we went out again, we found some more sleds and some of the teachers got to try this fun thing as well.

It was fun riding down the hill with a teacher!

We had fun making a snowhouse and in the making of that we found out that by throwing snow on the window we could draw on it all types of things.

Making a snowhouse & discovering we could draw on the windows with the snow thrown at it!

Snow art.

All this makes our little snow fall this week seem more like frost!

I was delighted to see so many new blogs linking up in the last OPP & I hope they continue to join in over the next few weeks too.
My favourite post was from How Wee Learn on using nature to help develop language. As anyone who spends time with young children soon learns, if you give them a context for new words they will grasp them much quicker & be able to use them in other scenarios too.

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