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Nothing says winter like reading The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats. If you are itching to read this Caldecott winning story in your classroom but you’re not sure what activities to do alongside it, I’ve got you covered! Included in this article are 15 fun activities for early childhood learners that are related to the text and pictures from The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats.

The Snowy Day Children’s Book

If you’re unfamiliar with the book The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats, or you just need a refresher, the story follows a young boy named Peter waking up to a fresh blanket of snow outside his window in the city.

He gets dressed and runs out into the snow.

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As he walks in the snow it makes noise and he adjusts his feet so that they make different patterned tracks in the snow. He then finds a stick and smacks a snow covered tree.

Peter comes across some older boys that are having a snowball fight but decides that he is too young to join them. He instead chooses