Frozen Acorns 

Hiding and collecting acorns is one of my daughter’s favorite things! She loved to do it with playdough so I decided we could explore this further with this activity, while also working on counting and number recognition. She had such great time!

It was the perfect opportunity to use these beautiful acorn counting cards from inspiredmontessoriliving.com (from their winter woodlands pack).

A didn’t want to use the clothespins this time. Instead she placed the corresponding quantity of acorns on the cards with the corresponding number discs. 

To make the “snow” you need only two ingredients:

– Baking Soda

– White Hair Conditioner

Mix them together until you get to your desired consistency. ”It should be a little “crumbly”.

We used wooden acorns for this activity but if you can collect real acorns on your walks with your child, it would work even better. You can also find a very similar set of unfinished acorns with bowls here!

Cleaning up is part of the learning process, so make sure to encourage your child to tidy up after they finish playing. Model how to do it until your child feels confident enough to initiate the tidying up process independently.