winter gear
Keeps your head toasty
What is a hat?
White, wet, and cold
What is snow?
Up and down a hill, sitting on a ride.
What is sledding?
It’s green. It’s shaped like a cone. It’s found in a field.
What is a Christmas tree?
White with a black nose and giant paws.
What is a polar bear?
Whether with two or five, these keep your digits alive.
Not ice. Not snow. Somewhere in between.
What is sleet/freezing rain?
The ice might be slippery, but add some blades and you can do this sport easily.
What is skating/ice skating?
Coming in from the cold, all you need is this hot, delicious drink.
What is hot chocolate?
Wears a tuxedo but still a superstar swimmer.
What is a penguin?
They’re heavy, they’re toasty, sometimes the new ones give you blisters.
What are snow boots?
When water turns to ice.
What is freezing/below freezing?
The best kind of cold, winters friend. He’s silent, sure, but he has a snack for later.
What is a snowman?
The lines might be long, but seeing this special, jolly guy is something a lot of kids and their families do every year.
What is seeing Santa Claus?
Fur changes from brown to white every winter which makes finding tiny nibblets under the snow much easier to pounce on.
What is an arctic fox?
Adults always make you get this before you leave the house when it’s cold out.
What is a coat?
Tiny bits floating down from the sky. It’s not snowing, not really, but maybe…
What are flurries?
It’s something people sing about but few have done, something involving horses and snow and bells and blankets and being outside, so giddy up giddy up giddy up let’s go!
What is a sleigh ride?
A box filled with 500 or 1500 bits dumped out on the table for everyone to work on together. Sometimes it’s easy. Sometimes it’s hard.
What is a puzzle?
I may be a sidekick in a movie, but I’m really a top, silent, camouflaged predator on the tundra, attacking from above.
What is a snowy owl?
Covered from ankle to shoulder, not overtop but under…
What is long underwear?
Snow and cold and WIND WIND WIND.
What is a blizzard?
Special shoes, special sticks, down and over and through the trees and fields covered in snow.
What is skiing?
A late night with a new beginning.
What is New Year’s Eve?
Eight in line, two by two. Haul things around the globe by a single red light.
What are reindeer?