In our collaborative song and video with Kid's Learning Tube, learn how snowflakes form and meet Ulyana, Alisa's daughter!

Ulyana loves to play outside on winter days in Frozen Land! After bundling up in her hat and coat, she runs outside and catches a snowflake. The snowflake sings her a song about how snowflakes form! Using magic, the snowflake flies through the air and shows Ulyana what happens when snowflakes form. When it's finished with its song, Ulyana lets it go to rejoin her family; she plans to see him again, but he'll melt and join the rest of the snow.

A snowflake is a collection of water droplets frozen around small particles floating in the air (aerosols). No two snowflakes are alike - their formation is driven by humidity (how much water is in the air) and temperature levels. Since there are so many different configurations the particles can take in the beginning, it's unlikely that any two snowflakes would be exactly the same.

Once the initial configuration is set, the ice crystals branch out from each other, forming the pretty repeating patterns - called fractals - that we associate with snowflakes.

Ulyana loves learning about snowflakes and other science topics. Did you enjoy the snowflake song? If you didn't catch all the words in the song, that's okay - we have the lyrics below.

If you liked the snowflake song, be sure to watch our other learning videos and compilations. Plus, you can visit Kid's Learning tube here:
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Lyrics:

What is a snowflake?
Water droplets frozen around aerosol's what it takes!
I am a snowflake.
Humidity and temperature are why I take different shapes.

Water vapor in the air
Rises to the atmosphere
Where it meets up with particles
They are called dust or aerosols

Water vapor starts to cling
To these small microscopic things
Which then form water droplets,
And they are microscopic.

And when the air heat gets to freezing,
Ice crystal forms out of these
Which is the birth of a snowflake,
Next I'll tell you how they take shape.

What is a snowflake?
Water droplets frozen around aerosol's what it takes!
I am a snowflake.
Humidity and temperature are why I take different shapes.

When ice crystals start to grow
Vapor deposition makes snow,
Which means within subfreezing air
Ice forms from the water vapor there.

This new formed ice starts to grow
On the ice crystal, now you know
In this freezing environment
The ice crystals form in abundance.

When they reach a certain weight
They fall to Earth at such a rate!
Humidity and temperature
Form the shapes that do occur.

Then the snowflake hits the ground.
They appear white, yes all around,
No two snowflakes are alike,
Each one's unique to our sight.

Usually they have six sides
And cluster when they collide.
So next time you touch some snow
Think of what had made it grow.

What is a snowflake?
Water droplets frozen around aerosol's what it takes!
I am a snowflake.
Humidity and temperature are why I take different shapes.

What is a snowflake?
Water droplets frozen around aerosol's what it takes!
I am a snowflake.
Humidity and temperature are why I take different shapes.

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Music: Copyright 2016 Baby Learning World® and Kids Learning Tube.
Video: Copyright 2016 Baby Learning World® and Kids Learning Tube.
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