For this week's nature time, following Barb's Winter Weds, we wanted to find out how many cups of snow would eqaul 1 cup of water.

I set out measuring cups the night before, as the snow was falling.

The next day we brought in the 3 cups and allowed them to melt.

That gave us a little less than 1/2 a cup....so we thought another 3 cups of snow, the kids collected them from the back yard, we thought that would give us a full cup...it was a little less than that. So we needed 7 cups of snow to make 1 cup of water.

The kids were fascinated with the fact that the snow was SO LIGHT!

Jayda apparently thought we needed to draw several cups to understand the idea! LOL