BLIZZARD BOXES

After reading, ask your child:

• Have you ever seen a blizzard or another kind of storm? What
did you notice? How do you like to play when you have to stay
inside because of bad weather?
• What are some ways you have “played pretend”? What did you
do? What toys, objects, or pieces of clothing helped you pretend?
• What else might you make out of a cardboard box?

Your Turn! Point to each vocabulary word below and challenge your child to explain what it
means in her own words. Vocabulary covered in this story:

With these printable coloring When something is Cardboard is a

A storm is very bad
pages, your child can make his melting, it’s changing strong material
weather with lots of
own book and retell the story from a solid, like ice, made from
snow, rain, or wind.
any way he likes: to a liquid, like water. layers of paper.
1. Print and assemble the pages storm melting cardboard
of the story together.
2. Staple them together and invite
your child to color the pictures. An igloo is a A pilot flies a plane.
A palace is a home
3. Then have your child tell the for a royal family. shelter built from
story in her own words! She can snow.
tell it the way she remembers, palace igloo pilot
or make up her own story to go
with the pictures.
Footprints are
marks made by
feet.

footprints

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