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Picture Books for Winter

January 15, 2010 by inneedofchocolate

Every year as we move through the holidays and I collect craft and reading suggestions like crazy, I always put aside those that are about winter, snow, snowmen, gingerbread men, mittens or anything else not specifically related to Christmas. Then in January, we enjoy reading about snowy wonderlands and fill the house with snowflakes and snowmen, though I must say we’ve not been doing many crafts in the last few weeks, lots of freeform art though so that’s fine.

Last year, I posted our favorite winter reading and some of our other activities in a three-part Study of Snow series. Here are the links: part 1, part 2, part 3

And here are some of the crafts I have on my radar for this winter:

Gingerbread Men Garland

Mini Hat Ornaments (we can hang them up around the house and then put them on the tree next year)

Button Snowflakes

Winter Birch Trees (we made a version of this at our art group this week)

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Posted in arts and crafts, homeschool, non-fiction, picture books, reading | 5 Comments

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on January 15, 2010 at 12:52 pm | Reply Margo Dill

You are so creative with your crafts and decorating. I love it. It gives me some ideas to use with stepson this weekend. But most of all, I love visiting your site to see those cookies on the home page.
on January 15, 2010 at 3:58 pm | Reply Zoe @ Playing by the book

Hi Sarah – I shall be linking to this in a week or two when I have a winter picture book post And thanks for the suggestion of Not A Box by Antoinette Portis that you left – sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner but our new computer has finally arrived and we’ve made the switch to Linux so there’s be quite a bit of setting up.
on January 17, 2010 at 1:52 pm | Reply Mary Lee Hahn

Sorry this has nothing to do with your post, but I just wanted to say that I LOVE your blog’s name! Whenever we get a comment from you it always makes me smile and say, “Yeah, me, too!!!”
on January 18, 2010 at 2:21 am | Reply Zoe @ Playing by the book

Hi Sarah,

Off topic a bit, but I ‘ve just read this review at Jen Robinson’s book page and I thought the book might appeal to you/your eldest with its cooking theme (of sorts)
http://jkrbooks.typepad.com/blog/2010/01/lunch-lady-and-the-author-visit-vendetta-jarrett-j-krosoczka.html
on January 18, 2010 at 7:41 am | Reply inneedofchocolate

Thanks, Margo. Those are my favorite cookies. I got the recipe from a student when I taught high school.

Zoe, I’d love for you to share my link and I hope you like Not a Box. I’ll check out Jen’s review. Thanks for the tip.

Mary Lee, I’m glad you like the name. I’m actually eating chocolate cake for breakfast right now