Winter: the changes of nature...

Winter is my favorite season. I adore the cold weather, the cozy clothes, the fireplace. But my favorite part is the way nature dies and reborn. Our ancestors believed in the myth of  Persephone. She was abducted by Hades. Demeter-her mother-searched for her, but none knew where she was. Demeter forgot the earth and nothing could grow. Only Helios, the sun knew and told to her what happened.Zeus forced Hades to return Persephone. But she ate pomegranate in the underworld and she was obliged to remain three months of the year (winter) with Hades and the other months with her mother when nature blossoms.
You may read this myth in the classroom, you may talk and  dramatize it. Then you can present them paintings from the  Persephone's abduction and you may discuss about them.







  • Who are they?
  • What happened?
  • How each painter presents the Persephone's abduction?
  • Which are the colors?
  • Which are the similarities and the differences between the first and the others paintings?
  • Which is the kids' feelings?
  • Which is their favorite?
The kids may become sculptures and may pretend the heroes of the paintings. You can let them dance during a music track plays and when you pause it the kids should stop move and become Persephone and Hades from their favorite painting.
After you may go out in the forest and observe the nature. There the kids can learn through their senses. They can see the differences between winter and other seasons in the forest. They can touch, feel and even taste the snow. They may create a snowman by using materials from nature.


Then back in the school you may create your snowman craft. The kids may paint their foot white and left their footprint on a dark blue cardboard. Subsequently they left their fingerprint to pretend the snowflakes.

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