Advent Activity: Snow Day

Considering the very slow start to snow season, we're treating today as our first snow day, even if the night's dusting was light and all gone by noon. On snow days, we go outside to play--snowmen, snow angels, painting in the snow (no, not yellow)--and gather snow in bowls for snow ice cream. Well, today the kids wandered around drawing pictures in the snow on the car and sliding once down the slide to clear it off, but that was pretty much it for accumulation. No ice cream today. But we will have hot chocolate and popcorn--real popcorn made in a pot on the stove instead of in the microwave, a first for them and a first for me to make (though it's how my mom made popcorn in her pressure cooker--the only thing she did with it, and not even as a pressure cooker)--when I was a kid. We'll make cut-out snowflakes, out of white and also out of wrapping paper scraps, but abandoned our plan to do coloring-page snowflakes because our printer is completely, surprisingly out of ink. No worries. There's enough to do, even on such a minor snow day.