Play like a polar bear

Hi friends! Today is World Polar Bear Day! So I’m sharing a great way to celebrate the largest species of bears on earth!

Glacier play

Though polar bears are excellent swimmers, they prefer to spend their days on top of the ice that covers the Arctic seas most of the year. The sea ice provides polar bears with a platform for them to hunt, live, breed, and create dens. 

All you NEED is:
Water
Bowl/Cookie Sheet
Blanket

To create a frozen playspace for polar bear play, freeze a sheet of ice on a cookie sheet. Then, invite kids to use objects from nature or from around the home as pretend polar bears, moving, hunting and playing on top of the icy sea. To explore the movement of glaciers, freeze water in a cake or pie tin or yogurt container and place the ice chunks in a bin or large bowl of water. Experiment with using fingers, tools and even breathe to move the ice across the water. Use objects from nature as pretend polar bears. How do the polar bears dive into and out of the water from their frozen platform? Want to make it more fun, freeze pretend fish into the water so your bears have to go hunting!

Polar bears are amazing creatures! They are perfectly adapted to survive and thrive in the coldest parts of our planet. Watch a video from National Geographic Kids to learn more about these Arctic friends!

xoxo- Ashley