Snow Safety for Kids

Keep kids safe during the cold winter months.

If your kids have cabin fever or a snow day off from school, you may be eager to send them outside to play. While snow can be an exciting element, filled with possibilities, it can also be filled with danger when not treated with respect. Help your kids to understand the potential dangers and keep them safe while they enjoy a winter day.

Dressing

When your kids start begging to go outside, you need to get them all bundled up. Kids can sometimes get excited about their adventures and reluctant about getting stuck in some stuffy suit. Remind them of the importance of the warmth and insist they cover their skin. If your kids want to play in the snow, making snow men and angels, put them in clothes that will keep that icy moisture from making contact with their skin. Snow suits and moisture-proof gloves and mittens will keep away frostbite. Cover their ears with muffs and hats….

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Snow

 

 

 

It falls as fluffy as the clouds

Fat flakes floating down to earth

Sparkling in the weakening sun

Just like the tinsel on our tree

 

The naked trees are clothed again

As if they are back in bloom

It brightens up the winter dullness

You can almost forget that summers gone

 

Bird’s tiny footprints winding up the garden

It makes the winter freeze seem easier to survive

Snow is the best gift winter can give,

Bringing out all the laughter,

 

The laughter that has been gone for months,

Since the summers scorching sun

Wrapping up in layers and layers

Children racing to get out into the cold air

 

Ice- skating to the shops

And sledging down our hill,

Building snowmen in the garden,

Throwing snowballs in the park

 

Nothing seems to make people smile,

During the dreary winter time

Than inches and inches of,

Great big flakes of fluffy snow

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