Winter Wrap-up

Snow Sculpture Challenge

The Challenge: Create a snow sculpture using only water, Super Snow Powder, and your choice of accessories.

How does the Snow Powder work?

Packed into a small amount of the dry powder is an AMAZING reaction! Amazing Super Snow is a compact, super absorbent polymer that quickly grabs huge quantities of water molecules by expanding very rapidly to 100 times its original size. The more it expands, the greater the number of places on the polymer that are available to grab even more water. Once it has expanded to its limit, it will become slushy instead of fluffy. Super Snow is reusable! If you wash your hands before handling the snow and keep it uncovered in the container for several days, it will dry out and return to its powdery state.



Materials & Directions

Materials

  • 1 Tablespoon Super Snow Powder

  • 3/4 cup room temperature water

  • Clear cup

  • Plastic container

  • Any accessories to enhance your sculpture


Directions

  1. Add 1 Tbsp of Super Snow Powder into a clear cup.

  2. Measure 3/4 cup of room temperature water.

  3. Quickly pour all of the water into the cup with the powder. Don’t take your eyes off the erupting snow!

  4. Dump it all into the plastic container. Be sure to wash your hands before playing with it.

  5. Carefully explore it’s properties. Make as many batches as you'd like.

Families who submit a Flipgrid photo or video response by March 12 will be entered to win an Air Clay Modeling Kit.

Five winners will be announced on March 15!

The Science, Art, and Math of a Snowflake

Click here to view a presentation about the Science and Math of a snowflake, and also learn how to draw one!

Click here to share a photo or short video of your snow sculpture. You must sign in using your child's school Google email account.


What do you wonder about snow?

Where do snowflakes come from?

Why is snow white?