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Directions:

• Fill your water table with cold water, lots of ice, and plastic arctic animals. Have your children try to put their hands into the water to play with the animals. They will quickly tell you that their hands are too cold. This is the perfect time to talk with them about how arctic animals stay warm in the icy water because of blubber. A great way to demonstrate blubbers effectiveness is to fill two ziploc bags with crisco. Seal the bags and place them into another ziploc bag. Have a child slip their hands into the ziploc bag with one bag of crisco on each side. Close the bag around his hand and have him place it back in the water. The crisco will act as blubber and keep the child's hand warm, as long as you keep wate from entering through the top.
• A messier way to demonstrate this is to fill a ziploc bag with crisco and have your child slip his hand directly into the crisoc bag. His hand will stay warm and messy.

Directions:

• Freeze a block of ice. Place the block of ice in a pan at your children's level. Have your children take turns placing spoonfuls of rock salt onto the ice. Watch as the rock salt creates holes in the ice. Your children can also drip primary colored water into the holes using medicine droppers. The colors will mix to form new colors.

Directions:

• Cut out five igloos from construction paper and write a different number on each igloo. Laminate the igloos to an open manila folder. Cut out ice squares form paper and laminate each square individually. Have your children put the correct number of squares on each igloo. Store the igloo squares in an envelope in the manila folder.

Directions:

• Cut a pipe cleaner into three equal sections. Fold the pipe cleaners together in the middle to form a six sided snowflake. Tie a string to oneof the arms of your snowflake. Attach the other side of the string to a pencil. You want the string to be long enough to hang your snowflake in a wide mouth jar. Fill the empty jar with boiling water. Stir in one tablespoon of borax to the water at a time and stir until it is disolved. You will add three tablespoons of borax for every cup of boiling water 9it is okay if some settles to the bottom of the jar.) You may add a tint to the water if you want. Next hang the snowflake in the jar, by placing the pencil across the rim of the jar. Make sure the snowflake does not touch the bottom or sides of the jar. Leave the jar untouched overnight. The next day you will have a beautiful crystal snowflake to hang in your classroom window. Remember to use 20 Mule Team Borax Laundry Booster, not Boraxo soap.

Directions:

• Cut out different colors and sizes of fish to laminate, making sure to cut out two of each fish. Attach a magnet to the mouth of one fish from each pair and spread the other pair out on a work space. Place the magnetic fish in a kiddie pool, covered with white paper except for a relatively large hole in the middle. Talk to your children about ice fishing and then do your own ice fishing. Have your children fish out a fish, with a fishing pole made from a stick with a string and magnet attached. Once a child has caught a fish have him find its match from the work space.