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Although we think of having a ‘white Christmas’, it’s much more likely to snow in February in Britain. If it does this year, you won’t have to think hard about the fun you can have outdoors. Everyone loves rushing out to make the first footprints in the snow, catching snowflakes on their tongue, having a snowball fight, sledging or building a snowman.
If you wrap up extra warm, you can make snow angels: lie down in a patch of freshly fallen snow and move your arms and legs up and down in the snow.
Get up carefully and look at the pattern left behind – you’ve made a snow angel!
With a bit of help, you can also build a small igloo by packing the snow up into walls.
Or you can make snow bricks
by using a spade to cut chunks
of snow into cubes. Remember to
leave a gap so that you can crawl inside.
You can also create wonderful snow lanterns by building a pyramid of snowballs and
placing a tea light in the middle. Ask an adult to help you light the tea light and
put it in the middle of your finished pile of snowballs.
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