Snowflakes?!?!

Yesterday I decided to make snowflakes with the kids (you know, when you cut a big circle from paper, fold it up, then cut out shapes, and then unfold it and it looks like a snowflake) we had a lot of fun making them but they had a hard time understanding WHAT it was that we were making! (this is our 7th winter in E"Y and I think its only snowed twice in all those years- the last time was two years ago, so they don't really remember it) I tried explaining to them that when rain gets frozen, instead of water falling down from the sky, snow comes down- and each piece of snow looks like the snowflakes we just made. I saw that Yisrael and Bruria still looked confused- they thought I meant that huge pieces of snow fell from the sky!

Well even after all my explanations, I still don't think they quite understood exactly what snow is! Azriel Shraga DEFINITELY didn't- he told me that he wanted to make another cornflake!

(It's funny that both Bentzi and I come from places where there was alwayas TONS of snow growing up, and yet our kids have no idea what it is! (just one of the many differences between our childhood and theirs!) - I guess the only way to really get them to understand what snow is is to have them experience it- B"H its been nice and rainy the past day, but not cold enough for snow...)