The winter wonderland created by the Museum of Texas Tech for
small children on Tuesday was a brightly lighted room with
tables and chairs, not the foggy, Londonesque weather outside.
Actually, the “Toddlers Winter Wonderland” was education with
entertaining activities designed to teach ways to keep warm in
the winter. “It’s for 2- to 4-year-olds, basically,” said Cara
Sanders, senior office assistant at the museum. Jessica Wilson,
a graduate student from Seattle in Texas Tech’s Museum Science
program, was teacher for the bright-eyed children. “What is
snow?” she asked the class. “Snow!” said one of the children.
“Yes, and snow is just really, really cold water,” Wilson
explained tactfully. First, she allowed the group to add color
to a snowman on a coloring book page. Reagan Scoggins, 4, neatly
shaded in the color with careful crayon strokes. The page
William Jackson, 3, was working on was maybe not as neat, but he
did use heavy lines done very energetically with vivid color.
Then, the snowman construction p