Family Snowflake
Submitted
by Sarah
What You Need:
- Pasta
- Bag
- Paper
What You Do:
- Send the ingredients home with your students with an explanation that they need to build a snowflake with their parents. They can use anything that they want to at their house. Remind them that all snowflakes are unique so they need to make theirs very unique. These all ways turn out really cute.
Q-Tip Snowflake
Submitted
by Val
What You Need
- Q-Tips (or craft sticks)
- Glue
- Wax Paper
- Glitter
What You Do:
- Give each of your children small circles cut from wax paper. Have them glue on Q-tips in the rough shape of a snowflake with all touching in a middle puddle of glue. Sprinkle glitter onto the snowflake, and then let it dry for a couple of days. When it is dry you can peel it from the paper and you have a wonderful snowflake
Note: You can also use colored paper and let them leave it on the paper
Note: Add string before it dries to make the snowflake an ornament.
Idea:
In art projects you can use many
different items as snow (egg shells, flour, sugar, laundry soap, white sand,
mashed potatoes, cotton, shaving crème, cool-whip, etc.) Submitted
by Lisa
Glitter Scene
Submitted
by Nancy
What You Need:
- Glue
- Glitter
- Black Paper
What You Do:
- Have your children paint a winter scene on black paper using glue. Before the glue dries sprinkle glitter all over it. This makes a lovely winter scene.
Idea:
Use ivory flakes mixed with water
to create a wonderful winter scene.Jell-O/Kool-Aid Art
Submitted
by Irene
What You Need:
- Kool-Aid or Jell-O (in powder form)
- Ice
- Paper
What You Do:
- Make ice in a Popsicle mold. Sprinkle Kool-Aid or Jell-O on the child's paper. Let them use the ice Popsicle to push the powder around and create a really neat design.
Note: This idea also works with powdered Tempera Paint
Idea:
For a snowflake print cut a bell
pepper in half and dip it in white paintGlittering Snowballs
Submitted
by Carla
What You Need:
- Balloon
- Glue
- Yarn
- Glitter
What You Do:
- Blow up a small balloon for each child. Have them dip yarn pieces into a mixture of glue and water. Then have them put the yarn over the balloon. Have them do this until the balloon is mostly covered. Finally, pour glitter over the balloon and let dry. When it is dry you can pop the balloon and remove it. These are fabulous snowballs for a winter theme.
Idea:
For neat icicles, put a thick line
of glue across black paper. Let the glue run down and then sprinkle glitter
on it. Submitted by Hollie
Suddenly Snowy
Submitted
by Wendy
What You Need:
- Paint
- Markers/Crayons
- Papers
What You Do:
- Have your children create a summer scene. Then once they are done give them white paint and let them make it a winter one.
Idea:
For realistic looking snowflakes
paint precut snowflakes with a thick mixture of Epsom Salt and Water Submitted
by Nancy
Paper Plate Snowmen
Submitted
by Frances
What You Need:
- Paper Plates
- Pom-pom's or butons
- Orange craft foam or rolled up orange paper
- Cotton
- Glue
What You Do:
- Give each of your children
three paper plates. Have them make a snowman smile and eyes with black Pom-pom's.
Then have use the orange craft foam to make a carrot nose. Next fill in the
spaces between the facial features with white cotton. Finally, glue the other
plates to the bottom and add pom-pom buttons and small stick arms.
For a smaller snowman use Cupcake liners, or small plates.
Idea:
For quick and easy snow flakes paint
over dollies Submitted by Paula
Snowman
Submitted
by Paula
What You Need:
- Paint
- Balloons
- Paper
What You Do:
- Give your children three balloons (one big, one medium, and one small) Have them roll the balloons in white paint and then place them on a piece of paper (to make a snowman). Then give them black paint in order to add the features of the snowman.
Idea:
Use a mixture of shaving crème
and glue to form a unique (puffy) winter art project (using cool-whip creates
a similar result). Submitted by Karen
Idea:
Star prints make great snowflakes.
Submitted by Jen
Snow Snaps
Submitted by Samreen Jawaid, samreenjawaid101@hotmail.comJen
What you need:
- Defective photographs (Ask your local photo developer for some)
- White paint
- Brushes
- Glitter
What you do:
- During our winter theme I gave defective snaps, which come out black while developing photographs. These are available at any photo processing express. More than half of the snap is black with a little white portion at the end. Provide glitter added white tempera paint or poster color to the children. Ask them to paint a cold snowy night scene with a snowman, snowflakes, snow covered trees etc. Finally they wrote their names at the end in the white portions. The painting presented a wonderful display and they look like real photographs taken in a winter night .
Idea:
Empty thread spools make great snowflake
prints Submitted by Lori
Contact Paper Snowman
Submitted
by Amy
What You Need:
- Contact Paper
- Cotton or marshmallows
- Pom-poms or chocolate chips
What You Do:
- Give your children contact paper cut out as a snowman. Let them put cotton and other pom-poms and anything else they want to in order to make a unique special snowman.
Idea:
For a snowflake pattern cut several
slits up from the end of a toilet paper roll and then bend them out. Dip in
paint and press on paper. Note: If you use shape scissors you get even more
unique snowflakes. Submitted by Karen
Idea:
For a great winter paint mix white
tempera paint and glitter, it has the consistency of snow paint sold in stores
but is much, much cheaper. Submitted by Amy
Idea:
Freeze colored water and let your
children paint with it. Submitted by Jen
Melted Snowman
Submitted
by Danielle
What You Need:
- Contact Paper
- Ivory Snow
- Paper
What You Do:
- Have your children cut out a nose, eyes, buttons, etc from construction paper. Then put these along with ivory snow into contact paper. Fold over and weal and you have a melted snowman.
Idea:
Provide your children with different
sizes of round corks in order to make snowmen. Submitted
by India
Idea:
To add snowflakes to your classroom
try coating mini pretzels with white paint and then gluing four together in
a circle Submitted by Holly
Tag Board Snowman
Submitted
by Sarah
What You Need:
- Tag Board
- Paper
- Paint
- Rollers
What You Do:
- Precut a snowman template out of tagboard. Then have your children roller paint on a piece of paper over the tagboard. This makes really neat designs.
Idea:
bring snow into the classroom, put
it in the water table and let your children squirt colored water on it. The
colors will mix into neat patterns. Submitted
by Beverly
Idea:
Dip small, medium, and large balloons
into white paint and have your children use them to make snowmen on paper. Submitted
by Joe
Idea:
Let your children paint with marshmallows,
they can dip them in paint and use them as a stamp for snowmen Submitted
by Beverly
Paper Bag Snowman
Submitted
by Mandy
What You Need:
- Paper Bag (Two per child)
- Pipe Cleaners (Red, Orange, Brown)
- Newspaper
- Felt
What You Do:
- Have your children stuff one of the bags with newspaper. Next, have them put the second bag (opened) on top of the other in order to prevent the newspaper from spilling out. Tie off the top third of the bags in order to make it form a snowman's head (use red pipe cleaner to form scarf also). Add felt for facial features and clothing. Use the orange pipe cleaner for the carrot nose, and the brown pipe cleaner as stick arms.
Idea:
For a great snowflake print use a
strawberry basket turned inside out.Marshmallow snowman
Submitted
by Lori
What You Need:
- Marshmallows
- Paper
What You Do:
- Give your children a piece of paper with a snowman outlined on it. Have them lick marshmallows and then press them onto the paper to make a snowman, the marshmallows actually stick very well
Shredded Paper Snowman
Submitted
by Tina
What You Need:
- Construction Paper/Cardboard
- Shredded Paper
- Glue
- Pom-poms or Buttons
- Pipe Cleaners
What You Do:
- Have your children cut out a snowman from the construction paper. Then give them shredded paper and have them glue it on the cutout. Next have them make a top hat from black construction paper. Finally let them add the facial features with Pom-pom (or button) mouth, pipe cleaner arms, and a Candy Corn Nose.
Bubble Wrap Snowmen
Submitted By Theresa DeLau
What You Need:
- Bubble Wrap
- White Paint
- Construction Paper
What You Do:
- Cut circle shapes from small bubble, bubble wrap. Press onto white paint, then press onto paper (two or three high),to make a snowman that appears to made from snowballs.
Fluffy Snowmen
What You Need:
- Glue
- Shaving Cream
- Paint
What You Do:
- Mix glue and shaving cream together. Then have the kids paint 3 circles
using the mixture. Let dry and mixture will look fluffy and textured.
You can also add food coloring for colors to make ice cream cones
Four Melted Snowman
What You Need:
- Glue
- Wax Paper
- Twigs
- Pipe Cleaner (orange)
- Googly Eyes
- Yarn
- Glitter
What You Do: