From the author: Published on the forum "Journey to the Emerald City" - there is a whole snow gallery there. Winter has come and with it - winter fun in the snow. In terms of therapeutic power, wallowing in the snow can only be compared with wallowing in the sand and floundering in shallow water. There are only two disadvantages: wet clothes and the associated increased risk of catching a cold. Well, let's take some spare mittens for a walk. And a hat! You never know, and they lose their hats in the heat of passion for the game. In addition to traditional sledding and snowmobiling, inventive children have always come up with other fun activities. Here are some of them: If you have a large dog, you can make it a sled dog; you only need a reliable harness and strong men's hands to curb the horse. Mom (dad) is a snowmobile. The child (not very large) stands on his parent’s feet facing him, his task is to stand firmly and unshakably, and mom and dad begin to take careful steps, trying to keep the child on their feet. Prepare your calluses! Footprints in the snow. Children roll around in the snow, taking different poses, and then look at the footprint - what happened? The latest experiment showed that the results are angels and nesting dolls. But this, of course, is not the limit. Previously, children left a trace of the “tread” of a truck in the snow; to do this, with their feet turned to the sides at an obtuse angle, with their heels shifted, they walked shallowly to make something like a pigtail or a spikelet. The children in the kindergarten themselves came up with the idea of ​​cutting out compacted snow sheets (the kind that street cleaners scrape off sidewalks). Rub the edges of the plates against a fence or with a stick until you get some kind of wonderful figure (photo below). At all times, snow fortresses were built or catacombs were dug in snow piles. To do this, you need to throw all the snow in one place - you will get a snow slide or a catacomb pitted with passages or a house with a chimney and turrets (photo below). In the forest after a snowfall, you will find whole hordes of all kinds of snow monsters. You can look at them with your child and imagine different stories about them, and photograph them and use them later both for fun and for diagnosing children's problems. like Rorschach blots or any other projective technique. If a child sees a lot of scary stories, perhaps the topic of fears is relevant and there is a lack of a sense of security. In this case, the children strive to fight this snowy monster. Let him fight and let off steam and move around and, lo and behold, the fear will diminish a little. You should not block his aggression towards the snowball. There are also funny lichens on the trees in the forest; this is also a reason for the play of imagination and the development of a child’s speech and active vocabulary. Talk to him about what the lichen spots look like. There are completely unexpected whims of nature, for example, a bear on the fence. The children just painted on his eyes and mouth. That's it - we relaxed and had fun, got a boost in development, and pleased each other with a general snow truce.